Thinkerstonic News

Thinkerstonic News

Fri, 20 Oct 2017

**NIGERIA

*5 docked  over theft of 40-foot container worth N15m

*CBN unveils framework for BVN, Watch-list operations

*Bayelsa moves to boost electricity supply

*Act On $20m NPA Bribery Scam, Csnac Tells EFCC

*PDP NEC Meets Tuesday

*Anambra poll: Osinbajo, Saraki, govs for Nwoye’s rally today

*Aare Ona Kakanfo: Obey, Pasuma, others back Adams

*Railway modernisation: FG to borrow $36bn

*Obigwe hits APC, warns electorates not to vote for Nwoye

*Shell Nigeria lifts force majeure on Bonny Light crude

*Nigeria lowers 2017 economic growth forecast — Report

*Pension for Biafra police personnel: Buhari should tackle issue of Igbo marginalisation –…

*Zenith, GTBank record N302.58bn profit in Q3

*NFF elections to hold in Katsina

*NATCA raises alarm over 10yrs closure of MMA taxiway

*$1.2bn debt: 13 banks hire Barclays to find new investors for 9mobile

*Nigeria among worst places to do business –LCCI

*Reps probe FG’s N895bn payment to NBET, DisCos

*Tax Holiday: NIMASA heads to Appeal Court

*Anambra guber : Vote Obiano without violence, APGA tells electorate

*Johannesburg Stock Exchange suspends trading in Oando’s shares

*Intels Volpi Apologises to NPA, Says Company Will Comply with TSA Policy

*Patience Jonathan stalls EFCC’s plan to confiscate her Abuja properties

*Nigeria to host IPI World Congress

*SEC Appoints Deloitte to Lead Forensic Audit of Oando as Firm’s Shares are Suspended on JSE

*Adeosun: 77% of Nigeria’s N19tn Debt is from Domestic Market

*FG Promises to Release Names of Suspected Looters Soon

*FG committed to emergence of RPAS in Nigeria’s airspace

*Jonathan’s wife’s sins catching up on her — Presidency

*SON warns importers against cloning Nigeria-made products

*Kidnapping Kingpin, Evans, Accomplices Change Plea to Not Guilty

*Youths hail Aare Ona Kakanfo Adams

*APC hails Ajimobi, Aregbesola for reopening LAUTECH

*Closure of Cameroon border: Refugee Commission carries out registration of person

*NDDC to partner Cross River on deep seaport access road

*Hundreds benefit from army’s free medical exercise in Delta

*Nigerian Lenders Appoint Barclays to Find New Investors for 9mobile

*Shell Lifts Force Majeure on Bonny Light Exports

*NIMASA Appeals NLNG $315.5m Judgment Debt

*NEC Constitutes Committee of Six Govs to Drive Industrialisation

*Fifty-year-old rapes toddler to death in Katsina

*Deaf, dumb man disguises as beggar to steal

*Hoodlums hijack LAGBUS, rob passengers, conductor

*Navy hands over fake soldier to NSCDC

*Masked gunman kills CAC pastor in mission house

*Two die, two injured in road crashes

*PDP NEC meets Tuesday

*Flooding contributed to monkeypox –WHO

*Anambra poll: Osinbajo, Saraki, govs for Nwoye’s rally today

*Act on $20m NPA bribery scam, CSNAC tells EFCC

*FG arraigns Misau, senator gets N10m bail

*1,000 Nigerians in Thailand jails – Envoy

*$3.7m fraud: Nigerian student jailed for four years in US

*36,000 Nigerians flee to Europe by sea, says FG

*Save me from police harassment – Ecobank MD

*17 governors plot APC chair Oyegun’s removal

*CBN orders banks to keep database of fraudulent customers

*$2.1b: Bafarawa loses bid to separate trial

*NIMASA: NLNG’s demand of N101b an affront to judicial system

*Jonathan accuses APC of lying, non-performance

**AFRICA

*EU leaders seek greater reductions in Africa immigration

*Winnie Mandela 'in high spirits' after minor surgery: spokesman

*Mattis says does not have complete accurate information on Niger ambush

*Togo forces fire on protesters, seven wounded

*Malawi 'vampirism' mania spreads as two die in mob violence

*Kenya president snubs vote crisis meeting, presses on with campaign

*South Sudan rebel groups clash, at least three dead

*FBI opens investigation into South Africa's Guptas: FT

*StanChart closed accounts linked to South Africa's Gupta family in 2014

**WORLD

*5 Russian ships in Philippines to deliver military equipment

*Sierra Leone: Koroma's iron-fist methods raise fears for future of democracy

*Barack Obama returns to the campaign trail

*Catalonia tourism slumps 15% since referendum violence

*Australia dismisses North Korea letter as rant against Trump

*UN condemns Australia on Indigenous detentions and asylum policies

*Rohingya Refugee Children Are in Desperate Need of Aid, the U.N. Says

*In the same-sex marriage vote, the bishops have soft-pedalled on sin

*Make China Great Again! Xi leads China into muscular new era

*Democracy depends on heeding Hillary Clinton’s cyber warfare warning

*Kerry: Ending Iran nuclear deal would worsen N. Korea situation

*Barack Obama calls for unity as he returns to campaign trail in Virginia – video

*UN tells China to release human rights activists and pay them compensation

*U.S. Senate passes budget blueprint key to Trump tax effort

**SPORTS

*Racial Abuse: Eniola Aluko Happy after Katharine Newton’s Investigation

*Kwese TV to Air Anthony Joshua’s Bout Live at ‘Sagamu Day’

*Nigeria to Spend N6.4Billion on 2018 W/Cup, Others – NFF

*Nigeria Can Win 2018 World Cup in Russia – Pinnick

*Quadri gets tricky draw, battles Korean, American stars

*Best Football Awards: FIFA extends invitation to AITECO CEO

*Stake high as 2017 ITTF World Cup serves off

Thank God it's Friday, have a great day.