02 Dec ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS :Wednesday
🌍U.K.,today, approved Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, a first in the West; the emergency approval of the vaccine, ahead of the United States and the European Union, clears the way for Britain to begin mass inoculations.
🌍ICPC on Tuesday said the Judiciary is on top of the Nigeria Corruption Index between 2018 and 2020. It claimed that about N9.457 billion was offered and paid as bribe by lawyers.
🌍President Buhari, yesterday, launched a programme for over 40 per cent of vehicles on Nigerian roads to run on compressed natural gas to improve gas utilisation and reduce dependence on fuel.
🌍Oil Monitor: Brent crude oil futures were down by 8 cents, or 0.2%, at $47.34 a barrel by 0743 GMT . Oil prices extended losses on Wednesday because of surprise build in oil inventories in the US and delay of OPEC decision on output.
* NNPC has publicly opened bids for the Engineering, Procurement and Construction phase of the rehabilitation of the Port Harcourt Refining Company.
🌍At the commissioning of Nasarawa state disease control and research centre in Lafia, VP Osinbajo said FG is ready to tackle any form of disease in the event of its outbreak in Nigeria.
🌍COVID-19 Update: Nigeria, on Tuesday, reported 3 deaths and 281 news cases after days of zero fatality. 7,101 samples were tested across the country.To date, 67,838 cases have been confirmed, 63,430 cases have been discharged and 1,176 deaths.
🌍Buhari has transmitted the Finance Bill 2020 to the National Assembly for consideration and passage into law in support of the 2021 budget.
🌍CBN has approved the release of banks’ excess cash reserve requirement (CRR) to support economic recovery. CRR is the minimum amount banks are expected to retain with the CBN from their customer deposits.
🌍Minister of Mines Adegbite says the ministry and Bank of Industry (BoI) are currently working out ways of simplifying the conditions set for miners to obtain loans.
🌍The FIRS has set December 31, 2020, as deadline to recover outstanding penalties and interest on all taxes.
🌍Senate confirms Mahmood Yakubu as chairman of INEC for a second term.
🌍National Assembly reacts to Borno Massacre with demands: Senate directed President Buhari to sack the service chiefs for failure to secure Nigerians, while the Reps summon him to appear in the house.
🌍Country Rep, Joint UN Programme on HIV and AIDS (UNAIDS), Erasmus Morah says no fewer than 1.6 million Nigerians died of HIV/AIDS since the outbreak of the epidemic in 1985.
🌍FG has inaugurated a 9-man Special Ministerial Task Force on monitoring and enforcement of Nigerian Expatriate Business Permit and Expatriate Quota Administration in the country.
🌍Buhari appoints Mrs. Suleiman-Ibrahim as DG NAPTIP.
🌍Okonjo-Iweala Named Forbes Africa-CNBC African of the Year.
🌍Again, President Trump thrown under the bus as US Attorney General William Barr has said his justice department has found no proof to back the President’ s claims of fraud in the 2020 election.
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