27 Nov ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS : Friday
🌍 President Buhari has appealed to OPEC to consider Nigeria’s “200 million poor people, with severe deficit in infrastructure” when sharing production quota among members.
🌍 VP Osinbajo has urged Nigerian businesses and the entire private sector to become conversant and knowledgeable of the AfCFTA treaty to benefit maximally from it
🌍 Oil goes down: Oil prices were lower on Friday in quiet trade due to the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday, dropping amid concerns about oversupply and doubts about a vaccine to end the coronavirus pandemic. Brent crude was down by 10 cents at $47.70 by 0602 GMT, having fallen 1.7% overnight.
* NNPC has presented its budget to the National Assembly for the first time in decades; and the House of Representatives has praised the Corporation for it
🌍 As Europe and the Americas come under pressure of surging coronavirus cases, the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) on Thursday reported 169 new cases, 92 recoveries and no deaths.
* The US recorded 110,611 new coronavirus cases and 1,232 new virus-related deaths on Thursday, taking the total to at least 12,883,264 cases and 263,455 deaths.
* Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine hit by controversy over different test results for different doses it administered. They may have to run a new global trial.
🌍 FG on Thursday formally handed over the N105.3bn Afam Power Plant to Transcorp Power Consortium.
🌍 Netherlands on Thursday officially presented a smuggled Ife Terracotta antiquity dated to be at least 600 years old to Nigeria.
🌍 CBN has advised banks and other financial institutions to reduce the cost of providing banking services to their customers, especially the underbanked and unbanked within the society.
🌍 General Yakubu Gowon, has denied ‘looting half of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN),’ as alleged by a British parliamentarian during a debate on #ENDSARS
🌍 The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammad Sa’ad Abubakar III, has expressed concern about the rampant attacks of bandits in the North, saying it is the worst place to live in the country.
🌍 Accident Investigation Bureau, Nigeria (AIB-N) has released three final accident, incident reports and two safety bulletins on occurrences that happened in the Nigerian airspace.
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