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AllAfrica News: Nigeria

• Professor Discovers Use of Eggshell to Tackle Pollution
  [Vanguard] Professor Omodele Eletta of the Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Ilorin, has discovered the use of eggshell, coconut shell, sawdust and croaker fish scales for the prevention of environmental pollution.
  
  
• Flood Destroys 4 Houses, Church in Akwa Ibom
  [Vanguard] Heavy rainfall at Eket in Akwa Ibom on Thursday destroyed four houses and a church.
  
  
• NCC Releases Draft Guidelines On SIM Registration, Replacement
  [Premium Times] The publication is to enable users make contributions ahead of the release of a final regulation.
  
  
• World Cup 2022 - Super Eagles Begin Race to Qatar Against Liberia
  [Premium Times] In 17 previous clashes against Liberia's Lone Star, the Super Eagles have won 10 matches.
  
  
• Lagos Covid-19 Cases Surpass 73,000
  [Premium Times] The total number of COVID-19 tests conducted in the state since the inception of the pandemic stands at 690, 562.
  
  
• 2023 - Only Tinubu Can Consolidate Buhari's Achievements - Group
  [Premium Times] The group described Mr Tinubu as a leader of leaders, a political colossus, and an embodiment of progressive politics.
  
  
• How Power Sector Fared Under Former Minister, Saleh Mamman
  [Premium Times] In a rare cabinet reshuffle, President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday sacked the Minister of Agriculture, Sabo Nanono, and the Minister of Power, Saleh Mamman, about two years after they took office.
  
  
• Shettima Is One of Nigeria's Democracy Success Stories - Buhari
  [Vanguard] President Muhammadu Buhari has described former Governor of Borno, Kashim Shettima, as one of Nigeria's success stories "since the beginning of the recent democratic journey."
  
  
• Trafficking - NAPTIP Reunites 22 Tripoli-Bound Victims With Families
  [This Day] The National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP), Sokoto State Command, has reunited 22 victims of human trafficking rescued from Niger Republic recently.
  
  
• Dilemma in Borno As Military Releases 565 Boko Haram Members
  [Daily Trust] Borno government and its people are in a dilemma following the release of 565 Boko Haram members to the state by the military authorities that reportedly profiled them.
  
  
• Medview May Resume Operations After 2 Years in Limbo
  [Daily Trust] There are plans by Med-View Airline PLC to restart operations after over two years of inactivity, Daily Trust can report.
  
  
• AfDB, Others to Raise $520m for Nigeria's Agro Zones
  [Daily Trust] Nigeria's federal and state governments have expressed overwhelming support for an initiative to create Special Agro-industrial Processing Zones (SAPZ).
  
  
• Nigeria's Power Supply Threatened Over Compensation for Land, Naming of Zungeru Dam
  [Vanguard] A MAJOR crisis capable of disrupting power generation to the national grid and throwing the nation into prolonged darkness appears to be brewing as no fewer than 30 communities in Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State hosting the Federal Government-owned Zungeru Hydroelectricity Dam are up in arms against the government.
  
  
• BBNaija Whitemoney in 'King of Boys' 2?
  [Vanguard] Nigerian filmmaker, television director and music video director, Kemi Adetiba, has hinted on social media that Whitemoney, the Big Brother Naija Shine Ya Eyes housemate could be appearing on "King of Boys" Season 2, KOB2.
  
  
• Cracks in 2Baba, Annie Idibia's Marriage Surface On Social Media
  [Vanguard] Lagos -- The seemingly perfect marriage between legendary singer, Innocent 2Baba Idibia and Annie, which was solemnised in 2012, appears to be showing some cracks if the Instastory posted by Annie Idibia, which has since been deleted, is anything to go by.