ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS : Monday

30 Nov ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS : Monday

🌍 Defence Headquarters faults a UN report that 110 civilians were killed by Boko Haram on Saturday; insists 43 farmers in the Jere Local Government Area of Borno State were killed.

🌍 FG set to commence the installation of 5 million solar home systems in under-served and off-grid communities across the country from next week.

🌍 President-elect Joe Biden has had hairline fractures in his “mid-foot” and will “likely require a walking boot for several weeks,” his doctor said in a statement Sunday, after Biden slipped while playing with his dog; On Sunday evening, President Donald Trump tweeted, “Get well soon!”

🌍 Crude oil prices fell on Monday, amid investor jitters ahead of a meeting of producer group OPEC+ to decide whether to extend large output cuts to balance global markets, but vaccine hopes helped keep them on track to rise more than a fifth in November. January Brent crude futures, which will expire later on Monday, dropped $1.01, or 2.1%, to $47.17 a barrel by 0749 GMT.

🌍 On Sunday, Nigeria reported 82 new cases. There are now 67,412 confirmed cases; 63,055 recoveries and 1,173 deaths.

🌍TCN moves to restore electricity nationwide after national grid failure from Sunday morning.

🌍 FG sets up a committee to standardize Micro Small and Medium Entrepreneurs (MSMEs).

🌍 Senate Committee on Mines and Steel Development says to complete the final phase of the Ajaokuta Steel firm, N3 billion will be needed to hire Russian experts to reactivate the 21 plants at the Iron and Steel Industry. (8) IMF has urged CBN to get the country a unified exchange rate for the naira.

🌍 Manufacturers Association of Nigeria has recommended a review of the land border closure due to the prevailing economic situation.

🌍 Horrified Zabamari community buries 43 kinsmen killed by Boko Haram as the UN says 110 people may have been killed.

🌍 FirstBank has launched the FastTrack ATM, a Next Generation ATM, that requires no physical touch

🌍 Reports say President-elect Joe Biden may announce Nigerian-American, Mr. Wally Adeyemo, current President of the Obama Foundation, as the next Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury under Janet Yellen, the next U.S. Secretary of Treasury. He previously served as the first Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics from 2015-2016 and Deputy Director of the National Economic Council. He is 39 years old.