07 Nov ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS: Saturday
🌍The World Trade Organization has cancelled a Nov 9 meeting to decide on the appointment of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala as next director general after the United States rejected her as a candidate. But sources say her name may have been submitted formally for the position by the WTO officials.
🌍Oil settled below $40 a barrel on Friday as rising global coronavirus cases stoked fears about lackluster demand and as drawn-out vote counting in the U.S. presidential election kept markets on edge. Brent crude settled down $1.48, or 3.62%, at $39.45 a barrel.
🌍NNPC has reported a total crude oil and gas export sale of $139.50 million for the month of August 2020, an increase by 64.84 per cent compared to the previous month.
🌍PMB Buhari on Friday received pictorial reports on properties damaged by hoodlums during the #EndSARS protests from Lagos Gov. Sanwo-Olu of Lagos State in the state house, Abuja
🌍NCDC announced 223 COVID-19 new cases and one death on Friday, bringing the total number of infections in Nigeria to 63,731, with 59844 recoveries and 1154 deaths.
*Lagos State has confirmed COVID-19 cases in a secondary boarding school on the mainland of the city.
🌍CJN Tanko Muhammad, on Friday, swore in eight new Justices of the Supreme Court in Abuja.
🌍Transport Minister Amaechi says work on the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri rail project, 2 others is to commence next year.
🌍CBN secures court approval to momentarily freeze #ENDSARS promoters’ Bank Account; as a court in Abuja has remanded six #EndSARS protesters who were arrested after regrouping on Friday.
🌍Railway Corporation (NRC) on Friday said its IGR as at Sept. 30 stood at N1.4billion as against N4.4billion projection for 2020.
🌍The 26th NESG summit now to hold November 23-24.
🌍INEC has presented the final report on 2019 election.
🌍CBN has said it sold 1.45 billion Yuan since the inception of the currency swap deal with China and the end of 2019.
🌍Over 32 vehicles burnt in the early morning explosion of a fuel tanker at the Kara end of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
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