09 Dec ALL THE RELEVANT NEWS : Wednesday
🌍After falling this morning, oil prices rose as news about COVID-19 vaccines lifted investor hopes for a recovery in fuel demand and outweighed concerns sparked by figures indicating U.S. oil inventories jumped last week.
Brent crude rose 57 cents, or 1.2%, to $49.41 a barrel by 0955 GMT.
🌍Campaigners say rich countries are hoarding doses of Covid vaccines and people living in poor countries are set to miss out, warn that nearly 70 lower-income countries will only be able to vaccinate one in 10 people.
🌍In a meeting on security with state governors in Abuja, President Buhari on Tuesday, charged them to work more with traditional rulers and community members to improve local intelligence gathering for the use by security agencies; said land borders to open soon.
🌍OPEC says Nigeria’s crude oil export earnings rebounded by 116 per cent in November against 77 per cent in April 2020.
🌍COVID-19 Update: Nigeria recorded a spike in the daily toll of cases with 550 new cases, the highest in 15 weeks. There was one death and 163 recoveries. Till date, there are 70,195 confirmed cases; 65,110 cases recoveries and 1,182 deaths.
*Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine is safe and effective, independent analysis confirms.
🌍National Population Commission (NpopC) chairman, Nasir Kwarra has said Nigeria’s current estimated population is 206 million.
🌍Buhari has removed Dr Ladan Argungu from the position of Director-General of the National Directorate of Employment
🌍FG has signed an Investment Protection Agreement (IPA) with Morocco and Singapore to raise investor confidence.
🌍AFREXIMBANK has set up a $1billion African Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA) Adjustment Facility to help member states.
🌍IGP Adamu has again warned that the police would resist any further attempt by miscreants to embark on fresh protest over ENDSARS.
🌍FG has rejected accusations by the US that it is suppressing religious freedom in Nigeria and expressed its readiness to open talks with the US on the issue.
🌍The National Executive Committee of the APC on Tuesday extended the tenure of the party’s caretaker extraordinary convention planning committee led by Governor Mai Buni by six months.
🌍Nigerian Embassy in Germany sacks official demanding sex for passport renewal.
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