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Today's News Headlines Wed, 24 Jan 2018



Today's News Headlines Wed, 24 Jan 2018



**NIGERIA

*Fashola faults Reps over moves to fund FERMA from consolidated revenue fund

*Don’t contest in 2019, Obasanjo warns Buhari

*Cattle-cracy, By Dele Agekameh

*I0 persons feared killed in Kebbi State clashes

*Next attack to attract war, Ondo elders threaten

*WHO pledges 20m doses of vaccines to eradicate yellow fever

*Ezekwesili, BBOG members detained, released

*Equatorial Guinea president visits Buhari, preaches dialogue as way out of crisis

*Fulani community alleges stereotype, demands fair deal

*NSE moves to sustain investors’ renewed interest in capital market

*‘Local certification competence to improve on completion of laboratory’

*‘Refinery licences expiration won’t undermine self-sufficiency plan’

*UNN non-academic staff protest against colleague’s arrest

*FG, states share N655b December 2017 revenue

*Gunmen kill policemen, cart off rifles, others in Bayelsa

*NLPGA to partner regulatory agencies on safety as DPR probes Lagos gas explosion

*Obasanjo Sets Polity on Fire, Says Buhari Deserves Dignified Exit

*Call states to order on RoW, Danbatta tells FG

*Senate probes NNPC over $141m in private account

*Tension mounts in UNN as SARS arrests JAC chairman, sons

*Cows cannot be valued more than lives in a country — Ejiga

*Sea pirates attack police gunboat, kill 2 cops, injure another

*Dambazau, Heads of Agencies Meet over Internal Security Challenges

*Saraki, Onnoghen, APC Mourn Passing of Former CJN, Musdapher

*Africa’s Jazz Maestro Hugh Masakela Dies, Aged 78

*Akande, Tinubu Hold Secret Talks with Buhari in State House

*National Industrial Court adjourns dockworkers’ suit in Port Harcourt

*Ajimobi prays Appeal Court to dismiss judgment against 21 new Ibadan monarchs

*Operators kick as Nigeria opens airspace to 22 African countries, airlines

*‘Maritime a sure way of growing African economy’

*AfDB Will Raise Nigeria’s Loan Portfolio To $8bn

*SARS operatives shoot three in Jos

*Don’t shield herdsmen, Ijaw ex-youth leader cautions government

*Ekiti goverment frustrates effort to get panel report, Fayemi alleges

*ASUU laments FG’s failure to fulfill promises

*Government plans solar farms in nine federal varsities

*Reps reverse INEC timetable for 2019 polls

*NNPC To Pick Financiers For Moribund Refineries

*Your Islamic State fighters’ narrative diversionary, Benue groups tell DSS

*Ijaw youths caution govt against ending amnesty programme

*OPD resolves over 14,000 cases

*Former CJN, Justice Dahiru Musdapher, Dies At 75

*Police arrest man, daughter over suitor’s death in Katsina

*Profit taking depresses stock market indices further by N187b

*Inequality worsens as world’s richest take 82% of 2017 wealth

*3rd Term Godfather, OBJ, Opposes 2nd Term For PMB

*LEADERSHIP Award: I Came To Office With Clear Vision– Dickson

*Shipbuilding firms threatened as orders slump to 3,158 vessels

*Sokoto to Inaugurate W’Africa’s Largest Cattle Breeding Project in May

*Oyo-Ita Explains Why No One Has Been Sanctioned over Maina’s Recall

*House Effects Amendments to Electoral Act, Reviews Order of 2019 General Election

*Bayelsa youths protest non-inclusion in skills acquisition programme

*Cattle colonies: Buhari pursuing Fulani supremacy agenda, says Nwabueze

*Newborn baby’s head dumped beside Lagos canal

*NBS inflation figure for December seems understated

*Ajimobi files appeal to overturn Ibadan chieftaincy ruling

*Oyo workers begin three-day strike today

*Police arrested me in broad daylight –Ezekwesili

*Lassa fever: Anambra bans drinking of garri

*N3bn accounts: EFCC arrests Patience Jonathan’s sister at airport

*Gunmen kill NURTW leader’s aide, in Lagos

*Okorocha, Wike, Kaduna senator reject cattle colonies

*Presidency keeps mum as Obasanjo attacks Buhari

*Two killed, seven injured as bribe-seeking policemen cause accident

*Sanusi, Mangal can’t stop Oando’s forensic audit – Group

**AFRICA:

*Winnie Madikizela-Mandela in hospital for kidney infection

*New Zimbabwe leader orders top officials to declare assets

*Ethiopian protesters killed for singing anti-government songs: U.N.

*Son-in-law of Mozambique's ex-president given 24 years for killing wife

*South African graft inquiry stalled as it awaits terms from Zuma: justice

**WORLD:

*Democrats seek evidence of Russia involvement in #ReleaseTheMemo

*Florida felons could soon be allowed to vote again

*Trump’s new FBI Director has 'already threatened to quit'

*Alabama shipwreck may be remains of last boat to bring slaves to US

*Twin car bombs kill dozens outside mosque in Benghazi

*Bereaved families await justice seven years after Tunisian revolution

*With dissent crushed, Egypt's presidential campaign is a subdued affair

*Sessions' aura of integrity fades with report of interference with FBI

*US drone kills 2 militants from Haqqani network in Pakistan

*Women Journalists Denied a View During Mike Pence's Visit to the Western Wall

*EU ambassador says he expects release of Swedish citizen detained by China

**SPORTS:

*Minister seeks end to NYCN leadership crisis

*Dayo Ojo emerges Man of the Match

*Antelopes seek maximum points against Kastina Utd

*CHAN 2018: Rabiu Ali starts from bench

*Robinho joins Elderson Echiejile at Sivasspor

*Morata and Fabregas headache for Chelsea

*Kennedy joins Newcastle on a season long loan

*CHAN 2018: Super Eagles Whips Eq/Guinea 3-1, Qualifies for Q/final



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