Today's News Headlines Mon, 4 Dec 2017

Today's News Headlines Mon, 4 Dec 2017


**NIGERIA:

*Slave Trade: We Are Not To Blame – Libyan Government

*Explosion destroys school in Umuahia

*CBN Injects $14.2bn into FX Market in Nine Months

*Buhari Challenges World Moslem Leaders to Resist Violence by Islamists

*Atiku Rejoins PDP, No Automatic Ticket for Him, Says Makarfi

*NDDC Board: PMB Has Breached No Law

*Nwabueze, Ezeife, others chart path to better Nigeria

*Olubadan chieftaincy declaration review is reversible, monarch insists

*AfDB’s youth scheme gets advisory, targets 25m jobs Africa-wide

*13 killed in suicide bombing at northeastern Nigeria market

*Terror Attack Alert: FG Assures of Adequate Security Measures in Abuja

*9mobile Denies Speculations of Barclays Withdrawal as Financial Adviser

*PDP Convention: North Divided over Micro Zoning

*Primary school heads condemn sack of Kaduna teachers, urge reinstatement

*APC kicks as PDP sweeps Akwa Ibom council election

*CPC to tackle nation’s banks, others on frivolous charges

*Many complaints of persons living with HIV in Nigeria

*Ambode to rehabilitate Ladipo Spare-parts Market link roads

*Gunmen kill cattle dealer, three others in Bayelsa State

*Ade-Ojo: Nigeria’s Auto Industry Expected to Grow by 5% in 2018

*Turai Yar’Adua’s Abuja Cancer Centre Turned to Beans Farm

*Nigerian Media Stakeholders Set up Committees on 2018 IPI World Congress

*Alex Otti Oils Campaign Machine, Opens Zonal Office in Aba

*Paris Club ‘Refund’: How Governors Armtwisted Buhari To Loot Nigeria, By ‘Tope Fasua

*Guild Of Editors Deputy President, Gaya, Robbed At Gunpoint In Abuja

*Nigeria imports over 3,000,000 tonnes of rice yearly, says GEMS4

*Hundreds of Kaduna APC members decamp to PDP, burn brooms

*2019 is still a long journey – Tambuwal

*Hospital to begin three- day medical screening December 6

*Non-Teaching Varsity Staff Resume Strike over FG’s Failure to Pay N23bn, Honour Agreement

*Nigerians Decry Impunity by SARS, Ask FG, N’Assembly to Scrap It

*Aero to Expand Ownership as Its MRO Attracts Investors

*SERAP to Buhari: Refer Corruption in Privatisation Process to EFCC, ICPC

*PDP Clears Council Polls in Akwa Ibom

*Ciroma: Why PDP Will Retake Power in 2019

*IYC flays lawmaker for ‘reckless comment’ on Federal Polytechnic, Ekowe

*Okoh deplores herdsmen for unending killings, tasks them on self-education

*Media stakeholders set up committees on 2018 IPI World Congress

*Enugu State residents lament indiscriminate parking of trucks, gridlock along Ninth Mile

*I’ve No Quarrel with Jonathan, Says Wike

*Ex-PDP Chairman Dumps APC

*Miyetti Allah threatens legal action over Benue, Taraba grazing laws

*Nigeria has deep cultural issues affecting insurance growth — CIIN boss

*SON DG, Aboloma, Lalung, Others Get Fellowship of ICMC

*Giving Phone Numbers to Strange Persons May Lead to Your Kidnap, DSS Warns

*Katsina commences cattle tracking to curb rustling

*CPS: Professors, political appointees to earn full salaries as pension

*I’m still entitled to $800m compensation, says Kanu

*Convention: PDP removes ex-govs, deputies as automatic delegates

*20 more exotic cars for Reps arrive

*SERAP urges Buhari to probe privatisation process

*Buhari will know his friends after leaving power – Sani

*NNPC’s $1.8 billion TAM bid is fraudulent

*IGP: FG amends falsehood charges against Misau

*PDP should focus on recapturing Presidency —Dickson

*Nuns pray for release of six abducted colleagues in Edo

*IBB, Jonathan reject PDP governors choice for chair

*IBB frightened by deployment of cash to ‘buy’ PDP chair

*No cause for alarm over terror alert, says Fed Govt

*Investors gain N4tr in equities

**AFRICA:

*Kenyan opposition says a strategist arrested, no reason given

*Former key ally of Nigeria's Buhari joins opposition party

*Zuma says South Africa and Morocco will resume diplomatic ties: media

*Zimbabwe truck accident kills 21, injures others

*Nigeria puts fortress towns at heart of new Boko Haram strategy

*Mali's president contradicts French account of military strike

**WORLD:

*Deadly bomb attack at football stadium

*'Ghost disease' ravages North Koreans near nuclear site, defectors say

*11-Year-Old Has Spent Her Life in Jail, a Serial Killer as a Cellmate

*'Worst in history': Donald Trump attacks the FBI

*Time running out to avert North Korea war, White House warns

*Analysts: Israeli attacked Syria to convey a message to Iran and Syria

*CNN team recounts uncovering slavery in Libya

*UK aid 'diverted to Syria extremists'

*Doctors fired for mistaking baby for dead

*Asian stock markets advance; US tax bill, politics in focus

*Donald Trump Is Still Undecided on Recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's Capital

*Venezuela to launch cryptocurrency to combat US 'blockade', Maduro says

*Crown Resorts: class action alleges risks in China not adequately disclosed

*'Of course he said it': Billy Bush counters Trump's pussy tape claims

*UN Secretary-General calls for an immediate ceasefire in Yemen

*PM in Brussels for key Brexit talks

*Talk of a Peace Plan That Snubs Palestinians Roils Middle East

*The U.S. and South Korea Kick Off Their Largest Ever Military Drills Amid Threats From North Korea

**SPORTS

*D’Tigers to play W’Cup qualifiers in Bamako

*‘Unpredictable’ Eagles worry Argentina

*Nigerian breaks world record

*Osunfuyi, Sadiku shine at Chess Heights

*Hosts win Legacy volleyball

*Universidad de Oviedo’s move excites Okoye

*Ikpeba warns: Iceland, Croatia won’t be pushover

*Nigeria versus Argentina game won’t be easy– Eguavoen

*Man City 2-1 West Ham – Silva, Otamendi Earn City’s Win

*Ethiopia force Flamingos to 1-1 draw in Addis Ababa

*Presidency to host the Super Eagles before leaving for Russia