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December 9, Top National News You Need To Know

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The past 24 hours have recorded interesting events both on national, state and local level. below are top news you need to know. 

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Ten Top Story From South-East This Week

A 24-year-old Nigerian man in the UK identified as Chisom Adams has been sentenced to 40-months in jail for using a secret sex tape to blackmail his former girlfriend after they ended their relationship. Adams, who had secretly taped the sex act with his older girlfriend, had recently demanded £3,000 from the mother of three, warning that if she failed to pay, he would release the video to all her children.

 

The Federal Government has deployed the 1984 War Against Indiscipline (WAI) to enforce the use of face masks, physical distancing as a move to curb the spread of COVID-19. The Director of National Orientation AGENCY (NOA), Dr Garba Abari, while deploying the WAI Brigadiers, charged them to enforce the COVID-19 guidelines among Nigerians.

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Following declining infection rate of the global pandemic, COVID-19 in the state, Anambra Government has commenced what it calls sero prevalence survey. Coronavirus sero survey is a research based engagement which allows health officials interrogate figures and investigate individuals who may have contracted the virus previously without knowing.

 

Ghanaian actor and politician John Dumelo has lost the Parliamentary election to the incumbent legislator Lydia Alhassan. The 36-year-old NDC candidate ran against NPP’s Lydia Alhassan on Monday. According to the results John lost with 2,073 votes. Lydia Alhassan had earlier declared herself victorious after some of the results began trickling in from the various constituency.

 

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has finally mediated in the crisis rocking the affairs of the Anambra State Football Association with specific attention to the vacant chairmanship position. The letter in paragraph 9, also addressed specifically the decision of the Electoral Appeals Committee to call for a bye-election into the position of chairmanship.

 

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The National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC) on Tuesday extended the tenure of the party’s Caretaker Committee by six months. This forms part of the resolutions at the meeting of the party held at the Presidential Villa, Aso Rock, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

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