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AllAfrica News: Nigeria

• Insecurity - Ekiti Allocates N1.4 Billion to Amotekun - Official
  [Premium Times] The Ekiti official says the priority to security through Amotekun was in a bid to further attract investment and ensure safety of all investors and residents.
  
  
• Lessons in Biden's Appointments of Nigerians
  [Vanguard] THE United States President-elect, Joe Biden's appointment of three young Nigerians into his cabinet is replete with lessons, not just for Nigeria, but for the entire African continent. Biden first appointed 39-year-old Adewale Adeyemo, who was the first President of the Obama Foundation, as United States Deputy Secretary of the Treasury.
  
  
• OMS - As Ayeni, Okunbo Battle Over Ownership
  [Leadership] Abuja -- The unfolding battle for the ownership of Ocean Marine Security (OMS) Limited has been insightful.
  
  
• Govt to Launch Centre to Drive Cost Efficiency, Others in Oil Sector
  [Vanguard] The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, Monday, disclosed that the National Oil and Gas Excellence Centre, NOGEC, designed to drive the three-pronged objectives of safety, value and cost efficiency in the petroleum industry, would be launched, January 21, 2021, by President Muhammadu Buhari.
  
  
• NIS Issues 23,867 Immigration Facilities in Edo
  [Vanguard] The Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Edo Command says it issued 23, 867 Immigration facilities to applicants in Edo in 2020.
  
  
• Only Good Governance Will Heal Civil War Wounds - ACF
  [Leadership] As Nigerians reflect on the way forward 51 years after the civil war, the apex socio-cultural organisation in the North, Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF), has declared that only good governance will heal the wounds caused by the unfortunate conflict.
  
  
• Covid-19 - Declare Partial Lockdown Now, ACJHR Tells Govt
  [Leadership] The African Centre for Justice and Human Rights (ACJHR) has noted that the Federal Government is gradually losing the control of the spread of COVID-19 infection in the country with the rate at which the figures are increasing daily.
  
  
• Covid-19 - Buni Lauds BUA Foundation for Humanitarian Support
  [Leadership] Damaturu -- Yobe State governor, Hon. Mai Mala Buni, has commended the chairman and CEO of BUA Foundation, Alhaji Abdussamad Rabiu, for his humanitarian support to the state to fight the COVID-19 pandemic.
  
  
• One Shot As Kafanchan Protest Turns Bloody Over Electricity Tarrif Hike
  [Leadership] Kafanchan -- Angry Kafanchan residents, on Monday morning took over Kafanchan major roads from Ernmako Filling Station to Kaduna electricity business Unit in Kafanchan to demonstrate over electricity Tarrif hike and epileptic power supply.
  
  
• NDDC - Akpabio Denies Giving $5 Million Bribe to Malami
  [Premium Times] Mr Akpabio, who threatened to file a lawsuit over the report, said people who are uncomfortable with the NDDC forensic audit were behind the bribe story.
  
  
• What Is It About Rising Prices?
  [Premium Times] With headline inflation at 15.75 per cent year on year in December, ought I to worry about the trajectory of domestic prices ― the headline gauge has risen every month since September 2019? Not if government's spinmeisters are to be believed. Two claims work out here. First, is that "structural legacy" issues were at the heart of the price trend last year. In other words that the freeing of petrol and electricity prices, amongst others, led to a one-off boost to general prices last year. Accordingly, onc
  
  
• Anambra, Osun Reopen Schools Today
  [This Day] Awka and Osogbo -- The governments of Anambra and Osun States have today reopened schools in their various states, with only teachers and school administrators directed to attend in Anambra State.
  
  
• Group Promises Excellent Service Delivery, Opens Corporate HQ in Abuja
  [Leadership] A group has stated that with the expansion of its operation despite the harsh economic situation in the country largely occasioned by the effect of COVID 19, it is now well positioned to give better services move to the citizenry.
  
  
• NIN - Govt Closes Enrollment At NIMC Headquarters, Approves 20 Centres
  [Leadership] Abuja -- The federal government has ordered immediate closure of enrollment activities at National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) headquarters and approved 20 centres within the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja to make the process of National Identification Number (NIN) enrolment much easier from Monday, January 18, 2021.
  
  
• Covid-19 - NCDC Records 1,444 New Infections, Total Now 110,387
  [Vanguard] The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 1,444 new cases of Coronavirus (COVID-19) in the country.