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AllAfrica News: Nigeria

• Biafra - We Too Are 'Disgusted' With Nigeria - Cardinal
  [Premium Times] The Catholic Bishop of Abuja arch diocese, John Onaiyekan, has blamed increased agitation for Nigeria's breakup on the failure of the current government to abide by the principle of federal character in the appointment of public officers.
  
  
• Osinbajo Warns Governors Not to Play Politics With National Security
  [This Day] Abuja -Acting President Yemi Osinbajo Wednesday cautioned the governors of the 36 states of the federation to resist the temptation of playing politics with matters of national security, saying doing so is unhealthy for the country's unity.
  
  
• CBN Aligns With NCC, to Resist 'Hostile' Takeover of Etisalat
  [This Day] Just like the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the leadership of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has informed the 13 banks that extended a $1.2 billion facility to Etisalat Nigeria that it would resist the move by the lenders to take over the network operator without its express approval.
  
  
• Etisalat Says It 'Consistently' Repaid Loan
  [Premium Times] Embattled mobile telephone operator, Etisalat Nigeria, said on Thursday about 42 per cent (about $504 million) of the original loan package of $1.2 billion (about N377.4 billion) from a consortium of Nigerian banks, which is at the core of the current crisis it is facing, has since been repaid.
  
  
• Herdsmen Menace, Prophesy Foretold By Nnamdi Kanu - IPOB
  [Vanguard] The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, said, yesterday, that some of prophesies of its leader, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, three years ago, were already manifesting in the form of the activities of herdsmen in the southern part of the country and the recent quit notice on Igbo residing in the north by some northern groups.
  
  
• UTME - Why We Rescheduled Exam for 85,000 Candidates - JAMB
  [Vanguard] Abuja -THE Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has explained that its decision to allow candidates, whose 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examinations, UTME, results were earlier cancelled, to rewrite was because of its new principles of equality and inclusiveness.
  
  
• Quit Notice - UK High Commission Commends Govt's Proactive Measure, Calls for Calm
  [Vanguard] The United Kingdom's High Commission has commended Acting President Yemi Osinbajo for proactive measures taken to address the call by some groups for others to leave one part of the country to another.
  
  
• Igbo Quit Notice - If We Fight Everybody Will Lose, Abiola Ajumobi Warns
  [Vanguard] Abuja -Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, yesterday, warned state governors against playing politics with national security, especially in the wake of the raging threat as a result of the quit notice given to the Igbo to vacate the north before October 1 by a group of northern youths.
  
  
• NNPC Repays N450 Billion Debt to Govt
  [Vanguard] Abuja -The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC, said it has repaid its N450 billion indebtedness to the Federal Government.
  
  
• Quit Notice - Call for Arrest of Arewa Youths Unpatriotic - Kwankwaso
  [Vanguard] Former governor of Kano State, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso, has advised against call for the arrest of leaders of Arewa youth groups who have given the Igbo a three-month ultimatum to quit the northern part of the country by October 1, 2017.
  
  
• Ex-Speaker Leads One Million-Man March Against Imo Govt
  [Vanguard] Owerri -Finishing touches are now being put in place for the proposed one million-man peaceful march against the administration of Chief Rochas Okorocha, for his alleged misrule.
  
  
• Jonathan's Cousin's Trial - I've Never Met Defendants - Witness
  [Vanguard] Abuja -Trial of former President Goodluck Jonathan's cousin, Mr. Robert Azibaola and his wife, Stella, resumed before a Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, with a prosecution witness insisting he has never met the defendants before.
  
  
• Army Worms Destroy Crops Worth Over N1 Billion in A-Ibom
  [Vanguard] Uyo -Farmers in Akwa Ibom State have alerted the state government of imminent shortage of food in the state as farmlands across the state have been invaded by dangerous crop pests likely to affect this year's harvest.
  
  
• Dangote Cement Hands Over Drivers to Customs for Carrying Contrabands
  [Vanguard] THE transport section of Dangote Cement, Ibese Plant, has intercepted one of the company's trucks loaded with contrabands in Ibadan, arrested the drivers and handed them over to the Nigerian Customs for further investigations and prosecution.
  
  
• Kogi Lecturers Suspend Strike
  [Vanguard] Lokoja -THE Joint Action Committee, JAC, of tertiary institutions has called off the five months strike by lecturers of tertiary institutions in Kogi State after signing Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the state government.