ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS: MONDAY

ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS: MONDAY

 

🌍President Buhari returned to Abuja on Sunday after participating in the Dubai EXPO 2020, held in the United Arab Emirates.

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🌍VP Osinbajo will depart Abuja today to participate at the World Liquified Petroleum Gas Association forum in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, where he will be delivering the keynote address; he returns on Thursday.

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🌍COVID-19 Update: Minister of Health Ehanire has expressed disappointment over the United Kingdom government’s placement of Nigeria on its red list following the detection of the COVID-19 Omicron variant.

* Dr Anthony Fauci, the Chief Medical Adviser to the U.S. President Joe Biden, as well as Director, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, U.S. will be speaking at the Nigerian COVID-19 Summit, organized by the Presidential Steering Committee (PSC) on COVID-19 between December 6 and December 8, 2021 in Abuja.

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* Nigeria Caseload: Nigeria reported 55 new cases, 23 recoveries and zero deaths on Sunday. So the national caseload is 214622 confirmed cases, and 207450 recoveries, while the death toll remains 2980.

 

🌍Oil Monitor: Prices rose by more than $1 a barrel on Monday after top exporter Saudi Arabia raised prices for its crude sold to Asia and the United States, and as indirect U.S.-Iran talks on reviving a nuclear deal appeared to hit an impasse. Brent crude futures for February gained $1.61, or 2.3%, to $71.49 a barrel by 0720 GMT

 

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🌍82 Civil Society Organisations (CSOs), under the aegis of Civil Society Coalition for Economic Development (CED), have welcomed President Buhari’s plan to end the oil subsidy in Nigeria and appealed to Labour not to oppose it.

 

 

🌍CBN Governor, Emefiele, has said the project aimed at revamping the National Arts Theatre will cost the Bankers’ Committee $100m.

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🌍President Buhari has directed Nigeria’s High Commissioner to Britain, Ambassador Sarafa Tunji Isola, to return Benin artworks which were recently repatriated from Jesus College, Cambridge and University of Aberdeen, Scotland, to the Benin Palace.

 

🎯Emirates flights touched down in both Abuja and Lagos on Sunday, marking the resumption of daily services to Nigeria from Dubai.

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FG says the Agbara-Seme border section of the Lagos-Badagry expressway project will receive N15 billion of the NNPC tax credit fund.

 

 

NDLEA has arrested a 44-year-old father of three, Gabriel Patrick, for allegedly ingesting 96 pellets of cocaine, which he excreted in the custody of the agency at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.

 

Incumbent president of The Gambia, Adama Barrow, has won the country’s presidential election held on Saturday December 4.

 

The Lagos State Government has released the two volumes of the report of the Judicial Panel of Inquiry (JPI), on the #EndSARS protests in October last year.

EVC of NCC Umar Garba Danbatta, has extolled the virtues of the Late Sarkin Bai of Kano, Alhaji Mukhtar Adnan, who passed away at the age of 95.

 

A court in military-ruled Myanmar jailed deposed leader Aung San Suu Kyi for four years on Monday on charges of incitement and breaching coronavirus restrictions

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