Wassup Dailies Thu, 17 Aug 2017 **NIGERIA *Security beefed up for Magu, mother, family after gun attack on EFCC *NNPC saves $3b yearly f...
Wassup Dailies
Thu, 17 Aug 2017
**NIGERIA
*Security beefed up for Magu, mother, family after gun attack on EFCC
*NNPC saves $3b yearly from production cost cut
*Fed Govt broke promise to ASUU, says minister
*Evans knows fate August 29
*Oyo council workers, pensioners get salary arrears
*Fed Govt gives varsities nod to conduct post-UTME
*FG to diversify economy with $41bn railway investment
*TSA: Govt saves N108bn from bank charges
*ASUU strike: We failed to fulfil agreement, FG admits
*Attack: #ResumeOrResign group suspends protest in Abuja, moves to Lagos
*Court rules against police in Evans’ case
*Lassa fever: LUTH discharges two doctors
*Use seers to find Ozubulu killers, Bishop tells monarchs
*DSS operatives abduct pastor, rob siblings of phones, money
*Police exhume human parts in church, nab prophet •I only buried a pig – prophet
*Anambra lawmaker dies after primary election
*Four-year-old pupil killed in Lagos shrine, parents, others arrested
*Osinbajo assigns portfolios to new ministers
*Nigeria cuts production costs to $23 per barrel, report says
*Africa’s Richest Man Has a Plan: Cement, Then Oil—Then Arsenal FC
*Egypt condemns terrorist attack on camp for displaced people in Nigeria
*Nigeria's Chibok girls say kidnap by Boko Haram was accidental
*Police confirm killing of 16 people in Borno triple suicide attacks
*TSA saved government N56.4b overdraft charges in one year, says AGF
*Ajimobi moves to decongest prisons, courts
*Osinbajo assigns portfolios to ministers, swears in 15 perm secs
*International Criminal Court to probe herdsmen attacks in Nigeria
*My attackers were sponsored, says Charly Boy
*Police nab 10 over killing of toddler in Lagos shrine
*ASUU and unending battle for the soul of university education
*LUTH discharges three patients admitted for Lassa fever
*Release El-zakzaky now or kill us all, protesting Shiites tell government
*Nigeria police, judges highest bribe-takers, says UN agency
*CBN’s power, airline interventions hit N277 billion
*Nigerians await solar eclipse on Monday, lunar episode July 27, 2018
*Nigerian bags Mandela fellowship in U.S.
*Appeal court restores Oye as APGA’s national chairman
*Nsukka farmers move to boost pepper production for export
*Gunmen attack EFCC headquarters, leave death threat
*Obasanjo tasks architects, engineers on affordable, decent accommodation
*Baale, three others held for killing, hiding body of policeman
*NUC pledges to improve standard in Nigerian varsities
*Herbalist strangles day-old baby in Katsina
*No succession crisis at Ajaokuta Steel Company, unions insist
*IPOB, police clash in Anambra over rally
*DSTV, GOTV subscribers protest against poor services
**AFRICA
*Mauritania President signs law abolishing Senate
*Facing risk of disease, Sierra Leone buries mudslide dead
*U.N. inquiry finds Congolese militia likely killed U.N. monitors
*Grace Mugabe seeks diplomatic immunity in South African assault case
*Mugabe's wife whipped my daughter with electric cable, mother says
*Kenyan government suspends action against rights groups
*Kenyan opposition leader will go to Supreme Court over disputed election
*Kenyan police watchdog investigating if police killed baby and young girl
*Zimbabwe's Grace Mugabe still in South Africa: police
*Zambian opposition leader walks free in treason case
**WORLD
*Donald Trump praises 'very wise and reasoned' Kim Jong-Un decision
*Woman sexually assaulted cabbie 'while man held knife to his throat'
*Kim Jong-un 'no longer seen as God' as worshipping North Koreans 'place their faith elsewhere'
*Anti-Trump campaigner 'shoots Republican neighbour twice in head'
*Flying over the traffic - Mexico City's urban cable car
*China and India locked in military standoff at border in Himalayas
*Hundreds turn out for vigil in Charlottesville to rally against white supremacists
*Vera Golubeva: Teacher imprisoned for telling a joke
*Cambodia arrests nearly 400 Chinese and Taiwanese nationals over telecom fraud
*High court upholds Australia's right to send asylum seekers to Papua
*There will not be war again on Korean Peninsula – South Korean president
*Two killed on Gaza-Egypt border in confrontation
**SPORTS
*Ronaldo-less Real Madrid win SuperCup
*Politics keeping Musa on Leicester bench, says Pinnick
*Eagles need prayers to qualify for W’Cup —Pinnick
*Ronaldo claims persecution after failed appeal
*D’Tigress target Africa conquest
*Idoko laments Lobi’s poor outing
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