HEADLINE NEWS

HEADLINE NEWS
Wednesday, 28th June 2017


**NIGERIA

*IT'S 34 DAYS SINCE THE EPE, LAGOS SCHOOL KIDS WERE ABDUCTED

*Gov Bello Begins Electrification Of 1, 000 Kogi Communities

*France To Invest 1 Billion Euros In Nigeria’s Oil, Gas Industry

*Kaduna Dry Port: Shippers To Save N100bn Annually In Freight Cost

*At Last, Igbo Leaders Denounce Kanu, IPOB

*FG Close To Securing EU’s Readmission Of Banned Agric Products

*No maritime Sector Without Seafarers – Peterside

*NCAA Cautions GSM Operators Against High Rise Structures

*Banks’ Shareholders Push For Takeover Of Etisalat

*Nigeria, Ghana mull new pact

*Lagos woos investors to Lekki Free Zone

*NB explores cassava starch as alternative recipe for production

*Premium Steel to begin production soon, says CEO

*Egina FPSO sails to Nigeria in August

*Firm seeks support for backward integration investors to aid development

*NIWA cries out of over blockade of Calabar office

*PenCom set for government workers enrolment next Monday

*Malami urges Senate to obey judgment on Akwa Ibom senatorial tussle

*Hope rises for Nigeria’s dry ports

*Uncertainty trails West African seaport projects

*SON charges MSMEs on standardisation, confiscates poor quality vegetable oil

*Fish eaters report less arthritis pain

*India remains Nigeria’s top oil export destination

*Nigeria extractive industry revenue disclosure hits $500bn

*Herdsmen’s attacks, Okowa and police escort

*Nigeria needs 40,000 BTS to strengthen 4G services

*Nigeria’s Internet access revenue to reach $4.4b in 2021

*NIRA puts .ng’s registration at 90,000

*Uber sees technology solving Lagos traffic gridlock

*IT engineer from Nigeria, wife held for duping many

*NAICOM to meet stakeholders on business retention within the country

*LCCI advocates harnessing maritime potential for a blue economy

*Food giants bow to pressures to reduce salt, sugar in products

*ETISALAT DEBT: Stakeholders dread implications of take over

*Seeking self-determination not declaration of war – IPOB

*Uyo Senate seat: Saraki urged to respect court order

*Biafra: You’re not Igbo Emperor, APGA warns Kanu, writes IPOB

*Restructuring alone won’t solve Nigeria’s problems —Etiebet

*UPP has gained firm roots in Anambra — Chidoka

*Anambra Consensus Project sets up cttee to screen aspirants

*Osun: APC, PDP trade words on by-election

*Three Nigerians, woman running fake lottery arrested

*ICT’ll rejuvenate economy –Shittu

*Ecobank to provide forex for SMEs

*‘Audit bill passage will strengthen fight against corruption’

*Masts: NCAA asks GSM operators, others to obtain permits

*FG partners insurance industry on foreign investment

*EU fines Google record $2.7bn in antitrust case

*Army invades, turns Lagos hotel into operational base

*Policeman killed as boundary riot rages in Gombe

*We are in recession, no Eid-el-fitr rams, gifts –Plateau gov

*Residents panic as Ikeja Electric abandons high-tension wires in canal

*Ex-convict teenagers arrested in Ondo abandoned building

*Two sex workers, others die in road accident

*Couple, 34 others arrested in Imo for murder, kidnapping

*Suspected arsonists set Catholic school ablaze in Delta

*Father abandons kerosene victim in hospital

*Rivers demolition victims demand N5bn compensation

**AFRICA

*Kenya records five million new voters for August polls

*SA's neighbours ban poultry imports over bird flu

*Bomb blast kills eight on Kenya-Somalia border

*Egypt army: 12 vehicles destroyed crossing from Libya

*Angola police fire on separatists, kill one: activists

*Egypt lets 6 Yemenis board New York-bound flight

*Boy travels from Morocco to Spain under bus

*DRC to probe ex-minister's suspected role in Kasai violence

*World Food Prize goes to African Development Bank president

*New limbs for growing bodies: Mutilated albinos get relief

*'I'm still in good spirits,' says jailed Zambian opposition

*'Soros wanted to topple E Guinea leader,' UK mercenary

**WORLD

*Thousands flee as IS takes over city

*Pregnant Serena Williams poses naked

*Female teacher arrested for allegedly having sex with student in car

*Isis 'fed baby to its mother and raped a 10-year-old to death'

*Three CNN journalists resign over retracted Donald Trump story

*Helicopter 'attacks' Venezuela Supreme Court

*Trump lawyer targets poor for donations to fight Obamacare via charity that pays his family health bills

*Donald Trump appears to flirt with Irish reporter during call with Leo Varadkar

*Venezuelan president says supreme court attacked from helicopter – video

*Congressman calls for $2,500 housing stipend

*Census reveals Australia more Asian, less religious than ever

*Facebook live video captures Boston drug overdose

**SPORTS

*Pillars, Rangers, Plateau Seek To Extend Unbeaten Runs

*Ikeme Backs Super Eagles To Qualify For AFCON 2019

*Indomitable Lions Will Return To Russia, Says Moukandjo

*Golf: War Of Words As Enugu Holds Monthly Mug

*Hockey League: Union Bank Target Title

*Ahmedu happy as Onyekuru joins Everton

*Alves announces Juve exit

*‘$2m sent to child of FIFA member’

*Edo deputy gov mobilises support for Insurance

*Chile set to stop Ronaldo

*NBA Africa Game excites Nowitzki

Good morning



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