ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS: MONDAY

25 Sep ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS: MONDAY

🌎Minister of the Federal Capital Territory FCT, Barrister Nyesom Wike, has revoked 22 plots of land in Abuja’s Central Business District CBD but given a 3-month grace to 21 embassies, 168 others

🌎Oil prices held steady on Monday after Russia relaxed its fuel ban, taking the edge off earlier gains on a tighter supply outlook and wariness over interest rates that could curb demand. Brent crude futures were up 17 cents, or 0.18%, at $93.44 a barrel by 1133 GMT after settling 3 cents lower on Friday.

🌎Fire on Monday gutted a section of the chambers of a Justice of the Supreme Court, Mohammed Saulawa. Witnesses said it took the timely intervention of the court’s and the federal fire services to put out the fire suspected to have started in the chambers located on the third floor of the sprawling court complex. Supreme Court spokesperson, Festus Akande, confirmed the incident, but said it was not as serious as speculated on social media platforms.

🌎Latest data released by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative, a Federal Government agency, indicates that Nigeria lost about N1.96tn to oil theft, sabotage and crude oil production adjustment in 2021.In its just-released 2021 Oil and Gas Sector Report, NEITI explained that 68.47 million barrels of crude oil was lost in the year under review.

🌎Nigeria has joined several United Nations (UN) Member States, civil society delegates, and other interested parties, to endorse a declaration, aimed at accelerating initiatives to eliminate Tuberculosis (TB) by the year 2030.

🌎Security Stories: President Bola Tinubu has mandated security agencies to rescue the female students abducted in Zamfara when Bandits attacked the Sabon-Gida community, Bungudu Local Government Area and kidnapped over 24 students of the Federal University of Gusau
*Four persons including a soldier have been killed in an ambush along Gwoza Limankara Road, one hundred and thirty-four kilometres from Maiduguri by Boko Haram terrorists
*The Benue State Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Matthew Abo, has been abducted. He was abducted between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m. in Zaki Bịam.

🌎Russia-Ukraine War: Russian strikes killed at least two people and caused “significant damage” to Odesa overnight, Ukrainian officials said Monday. Moscow’s forces have repeatedly targeted the southern port following the collapse of the Black Sea grain deal in July.
*Nearby, Russian shelling killed at least three people and wounded nine others Sunday in the southern Kherson and Zaporizhzhia regions, Ukrainian officials said.
*Ukrainian drones targeted Russia’s Bryansk and Kursk border regions and occupied Crimea, Russian officials said Monday. No casualties were reported.
*Poland has prepared routes for Ukrainian grain to move through its territory and reach countries most in need, President Andrzej Duda said. Warsaw publicly feuded with Kyiv last week over grain imports and the question of supplying weapons.