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December 4, Top National News You Need To Know

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Some university students on Thursday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider the students’ future and resume work. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has presented a N448,660,773,476 budget for 2021 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly for consideration and approval. Below are top national news.

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The Minister of Youth and Sports Development, Mr Sunday Dare, has charged the Flying Eagles to make Nigeria proud by winning the WAFU U-20 competition in the Benin Republic. Dare gave the charge on Wednesday when he paid a visit to the team’s training camp in Abuja. The minister urged the team to display the Nigerian spirit of resilience and determination to win the tournament which starts on Saturday in Cotonou.

 

Gov Ben Ayade, Thursday, launched Operation Akpakwu in Cross River State and donated over 100 vehicles including Hilux, saloon cars, power bikes as well as state of that arts communication gadget to combat crime in the state.

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The NBA announced Wednesday that 48 players have tested positive for the coronavirus, a dramatic increase over the zero positive tests reported during last season’s quarantine bubble in Florida. The league said the positive tests are the result of 546 tests carried out between November 24-30 as the NBA gets set to begin preseason games in nine days.

 

Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State has presented a N448,660,773,476 budget for 2021 fiscal year to the state House of Assembly for consideration and approval. The 2021 budget christened, “Budget of Recovery and Consolidation,” has N305, 894, 284.061 as Capital Expenditure, while N142,776,489,415 is earmarked for Recurrent Expenditure.

 

In August this year, amid the uncertainties and tremendous global discomfort caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, Nigeria received encouraging news when the country was declared free of the wild polio virus, joining a league of countries in which the virus had been eradicated and, by this declaration, inching Africa towards a total freedom from the disease.

 

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The Nigeria Police Force has filed a lawsuit to stop the activities of state judicial panels of inquiry probing allegations of police brutality. State governments set up the panels after nationwide protests against the extra-judicial activities of operatives of the NPF’s Special Anti-Robbery Squad (SARS) in October.

 

Some university students on Thursday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider the students’ future and resume work in their various institutions. Some of the students, who spoke with the Newsmen in Enugu, expressed worries and lamented as they appealed for the suspension of the prolonged strike.

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Some university students on Thursday appealed to the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) to consider the students’ future and resume work in their various institutions. Some of the students, who spoke with the Newsmen in Enugu, expressed worries and lamented as they appealed for the suspension of the prolonged strike.

 

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The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC), has appealed to the Federal Government to immediately restrict international flights, following recent reports indicating a new wave of Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak. Director of the group, prof. Ishaq Akintola, made the appeal in a statement issued on Thursday in Lagos.

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