ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS: FRIDAY

ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS: FRIDAY

🌎Stories from the Villa
There can be no development without peace, as the two are complementary to each other, President Muhammadu Buhari has stated. He spoke Thursday at State House, Abuja, while granting audience to the Director General of the Arab Bank for Economic Development, Dr Sid Ould Tah.
* He met the Governor of CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele, behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. The President met with the CBN boss twice, having first met him alongside the delegation of the Arab Bank for Economic Development and later privately after the first meeting
* The President approved the appointment of the inaugural members of the board and the executive management team of the new Ministry of Finance Incorporated.

🌎Oil rose on Friday and was heading for a second straight weekly gain, largely on brightening economic prospects for China and resulting expectations of a boost to fuel demand in the world’s second-biggest economy. Brent crude gained 38 cents, or 0.4%, to $86.54 a barrel by 0912 GMT.

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🌎Access Holding Company Plc, trading under the Access Corporation, may consider dual listing in a bid to set appropriate pricing for its share and enable shareholders derived value for their investment, according to Group Chief Executive Herbert Wigwe, who said he was unimpressed by the current pricing of the Holdco stock on the Nigerian Exchange Limited (NGX).

🌎The Director-General of Nigeria Mining Cadastre, Obadiah Nkom, on Thursday said at the 63rd session of the ministerial briefing, organised by the presidential communications team, in Abuja, the agency generated N14.59 billion as revenue between 2018 and 2022.

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🌎Dangote Cement Plc has announced Arvind Pathak as the company’s new chief executive/managing director, the company said in a note posted on the Nigerian Exchange’s website on Thursday.

🌎Nigeria on Friday confirmed the outbreak of a new infection of the nose and throat, called Diphtheria, which has killed 25 people.

🌎The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, has signed a revised Memorandum of Understanding with the National Lottery Regulatory Commission, NLRC, with provisions to deter unapproved lottery and gaming practices on telecommunications platforms through information and intelligence sharing.

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🌎Minister of Police Affairs, Muhammed Maigari Dingyadi has clarified that President Buhari has not approved an extension of the tenure for IGP Usman Alkali Baba.

🌎Security Stories: Terrorists have abducted four students of the Zamfara State College of Health Technology, Tsafe and their sisters who were returning from a colleague’s wedding.
* The police in Imo State said they have killed three suspected members of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in Agwa, a community in Oguta Local Government Area of the state.
* Gunmen have killed a family of five and three other people in Abagana village opposite the Internally Displaced Persons’ (IDPs) camp along Makurdi Lafia road in Benue State.
* Gunmen on Thursday abducted Mr Kefas Ishaya, the Catechist of St. Monica Catholic Church, Ikulu-Pari, in Chawai Chiefdom of Kauru Local Government, Kaduna State. They abducted the Catechist when they could not get his boss, Rev Fr Joseph Shekari, who was not in when his residence was attacked.
* A first-class monarch in Plateau State, Dr. Isaac Azi Wakili, the paramount ruler of the Izere nation in the Jos East Local Government Area of the state, has been kidnapped by gunmen.

🌎Russia-Ukraine War: NATO partners are holding a key meeting on more military aid for Ukraine in Germany today.
* The Pentagon has announced a $2.5 billion Ukraine security package as the US and its European allies debate whether to send more sophisticated weapons to Kyiv.
* Dmitry Medvedev, deputy head of Russia’s Security Council, warned that defeat for Moscow could lead to nuclear war. The former Russian president has repeatedly raised the specter of nuclear conflict.

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