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HEADLINE NEWS
Thursday, 22th June 2017



**NIGERIA

IT'S 28 DAYS SINCE THE EPE, LAGOS SCHOOL KIDS WERE ABDUCTED

*Agric financing fund hits $65.9m

*Indonesian firm to build 10,000bpd refinery in A’Ibom

*Bayelsa Journalist Arrested for Suspected Militancy Dead, Allege Colleagues

*Lassa Fever: Five Cases Confirmed in Ondo

*Court sentences cleric to 14 years imprisonment for attempted robbery

*Ondo Assembly passes budget, shoves up estimates by with N1b

*Ikorodu Residents Nab Suspected Cultist

*Suspected Kidnappers Arrested in Ondo

*Police, DSS, Army Conduct Operation Show of Force to Combat Crimes in Kano

*Witnesses Storm Court to Attest to Goje’s Financial Prudence

*Security Threat: Osinbajo In Marathon Meeting With Govs

*I’m Not Moved By FG’s Appeal Over CCT Acquittal – Saraki

*Constitutional Amendment: NASS Sets New Conditions For State Creation

*Nigeria Police Key To Regional Peace, Stability – IGP Idris

*Climate Change: Oil Industry’s $2trn Planned Investment At Risk

*Etisalat Has Paid Over 50% of Original Loan – Investigation

*FG’s Executive Order Under Threat At Seaports – Customs CG

*Keystone Bank restates support for SMEs with GrowBiz Account

*NDDC executes 742 projects in Rivers

*Subsidy: Oil marketers demand payment of N720bn debt owed by FG

*India to dethrone China as world’s most populated country in seven years, UN says
South China

*Igbo elders visit IVM, Nnewi, task kinsmen on industrial devt

*Banks seek probe of Etisalat fund

*Insurance: NAICOM blows hot over late submission of audited financial statements

*BoI to fund agro-processing sector in Edo

*FRC urges compliance with FRC Act on debt limit

*Customs alerts on killer-rice

*PenCom: Fed Govt’s workers enrolment begins next week

*Govt records progress in generation, says Fashola

*CBN to de-risk housing finance under ‘My Own Home’

*Lafarge trains host communities on cement; offer employment

*Nigeria to issue more bonds

*CBN engages Ogun farmers, SMEs on financial inclusion

*Nigeria’s oil exports to exceed 2million bpd

*Wike Opposes NLNG Act Amendment

*Lagos Plans Radio Stations For 20 Lgas

*FG must reform LGs urgently before autonomy -Gov. Ahmed

*Why Tinubu embraced Obanikoro again –Ajomale

*LASU inter-varsity debate espouses Not too young to run bill

*BUA Group to grow Nigeria’s sugar output by 2mmt annually

*Dangote cement hands over drivers to Customs for carrying contrabands

*Mbaise USA takes free health to rural communities

*NNPC repays N450bn debt to FG

*Don’t play politics with national security, Osinbajo warns govs

*Budget 2017: Panic as oil price drops to $43.90 per barrel

*Court remands 5 alleged kidnappers of Ogun students in prison

*We can’t supply power to Magboro, others now – IBEDC

*N23bn Diezani bribe: EFCC arraigns ex-minister, Akinjide, today

*Father, son abducted, killed Ondo APC chief – Police

*Yoruba don’t need to meet Osinbajo – ARG

*Senate plans bill to check high house rents

*We’ve resolved Nigeria must not break, say governors

*Suspected cult members set house ablaze, kill three

*50-year-old nabbed for defiling 15-month-old baby

*Fayose holds victory rally, accuses Buhari of nepotism

*I authorised FG appeal against Saraki’s acquittal, says AGF

*W’Bank approves $961m for Nigeria’s economic recovery plan

*Court restrains Ambode from evicting waterfront settlers

*Melaye’s recall: Constituents submit six bags of signatures to INEC

*Ladoja donates N5.8m to LAUTECH

*MASSOB flays S’East govs for wearing ‘Hausa/Fulani attire’

*N4.9bn fraud: Don’t try me in Lagos, Fani-Kayode insists

*Kidnappers write to another Lagos school, vow to abduct pupils

*Athletes tackle UNIPORT over NUGA allowances

*NNPC sustains losses, records N39.3bn deficit in four months

*Agricultural finance fund closes at $65.9m, says FG

*Lassa fever hits Ondo, five cases recorded

*Growing population of IDPs in N’East alarming, says UN

*Ibadan flooding: Residents count losses

*Phantom Company Uses Dead Man’s Property To Obtain N145m Loan

*Sexual Activity Of Youths In Lagos Communities Worrisome — AHI

*Imo Mourns Kelechi Emeteole

*DMO To Issue N100bn Islamic Bond Month End

*24 Hours Port Operations: Customs Demands Manifest Before Vessels’ Arrival

*OTODO GBAME: Court Restrains Lagos From Further Waterfront Communities Eviction

*Gov Ortom Sacks Exams Board Boss, Others

*Ajudua Makes Case For Sickle Cell Awareness

*Kogi Lecturers Suspend Strike

*Return To Site Or Refund Mobilization Fees, NDDC Orders Contractors

*Army Worms Destroy Crops Worth Over N1bn In A-Ibom

**AFRICA

*Mali delays constitutional referendum to cool tensions

*Heavy rains have killed 15 in Ivory Coast

*Five killed in Boko Haram mine blast, ambush

*Mali says 1 woman still missing after attack on resort

*Kenya to provide sanitary pads for girls in public schools

*One of Africa's largest wildlife relocations begins

*Court gives Lagos poor demolition reprieve

*UN Security Council unanimously welcomes Sahel force

*2 Angolan journalists charged with insulting the state

*Egypt doubles capacity of ration cards

*Zimbabwe appeals for $10.9m aid for refugees

*S Sudan famine eases, but more going hungry: UN

*Egypt top court suspends all rulings on islands transfer

*UN warns against refugee returns to Nigeria from Cameroon

*Rwanda says gunmen kill 1, injure 8 in attack near Burundi

*New report blames South Sudan military for civilian deaths

*At least 100 dead in Central African Republic town

*Pope pledges more than $500 000 in South Sudan aid

*Sudan military helicopter crashes killing crew: army

*Egypt sends fuel to power-starved Gaza, undercuts Abbas

**WORLD

*Thai king shot in the back with BB guns while cycling in Germany

*Russian fighter jet 'chases NATO plane away'

*Israel would go ‘all-out’ if war breaks out with Lebanon

*100 said killed as Christian militiamen, Muslim rebels clash

*Saudi Aramco’s over-ambitious valuation defies basic logic

*Bernie Sanders may have wowed Hay festival – but the crowd shouted ‘Corbyn’

*China: United States pushes for action on North Korea

*Islamic State blows up historic Mosul mosque where it declared 'caliphate'

*UN says world population will reach 9.8 billion in 2050

*India to dethrone China as world’s most populated country in seven years, UN says

**SPORTS

*NFF Confirms Uyo As Eagles Home

*Imo Mourns Kelechi Emeteole

*S/African Sprinters Threaten Fasuba’s 100m Record

*FIFA Confed. Cup: Cameroon Seek Pound Of Flesh Of Australia

*Ronaldo On Target In Portugal Win

*Athletes tackle UNIPORT over NUGA allowances

*Tornadoes return to Minna in August

*Tammy Abraham agrees Swansea move

*Tributes flood in after Kelechi Emeteole dies in India

*Victorious Rivers coach angry with players

*Confederations Cup:
- Group A June 21
Russia 0 - 1Portugal
Mexico 2 - 1New Zealand





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