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Nigeria Breaking News Headlines Today Monday, 23 April 2018
Nigeria breaking news
This is a roundup of some of the breaking news in Nigeria for Today Monday, 23 April 2018
Four Die, Eight Injured As Suicide Bombers Attack Mosque In Bama
No fewer than four persons were killed and eight others wounded in a suicide bomb attack on Sunday at a mosque in Bama Local Government Area of Borno.
The attack came barely four weeks after thousands of displaced persons were resettled in the community.
Two Feared Dead As APC Caucus Meeting Turns Bloody
A stakeholders caucus meeting of the All Progressives People’s Congress in Benue State Zone C held at the Double K resort Otukpo has left two people dead TheNigerian reports.
Eyewitness accounts stated that few minutes after the meeting was concluded gun shots rang out around the Zone C APC Secretariat on Old Otobi Road and one person was confirmed dead on the spot.
INEC Denies Creating 30,000 New Polling Units
The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has denied creating 30,000 additional polling units in order to compromise the 2019 general elections.
Mr. Kola Ologbondiyan, National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party`s (PDP), on Friday alleged that INEC was planning to create 30,000 illegal polling units in some remote areas.
4 Boko Haram Insurgents, 3 Soldiers, 2 Vigilante Killed In Borno
The Nigeria Army has said that it has neutralized four Boko Haram insurgents in separate operation and also recovered Arms from the insurgents in Borno State
The Director, Army Public Relations, Brig.-Gen. Texas Chukwu, in a statement Revealed that three soldiers and two members of the Civilian Joint Task Force (CJTF) also lost their lives in the encounter.
PDP Blames Buhari for Ministers’ Absence At US Investors’ Meeting
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) challenges President Muhammadu Buhari to give account of his ministers and other government officials who abandoned their scheduled meeting with investors in the United States to gallivant in that country.
The ministers reportedly abandoned the foreign investors and went on shopping spree in highbrow shops of the United States, at the time Nigerians were looking up to them to negotiate deals and bring in investments into the country.
Saraki, Other Visit NASS Staff Assaulted During Senate Invasion
Dr Bukola Saraki, the senate President, has paid a personal visit to the home of Mrs. Sandra Davou the brave female Sergeant-t-Arms who was attacked when Hoodlums invaded the National Assembly and took away the Mace of the Senate.
BB Naija: See all The Prizes Miracle Will Be Going Home With
Big Brother Naija has come and gone, but the winner of the show, Miracle is still counting his blessings and Nigerians are stilling talking about his accolades.
Miracle won the competition after 85 days of slogging it out with 20 other house-mates. Tobi and Cee-c coming through as the second and First runner up respectively.
Apart from the 25 Million Naira Cash prize, and the N20 million worth of gifts – N12 million SUV, N4.7 million all expense paid trip for 2, N3.3 million entertainment set, he would also be going home with some other goodies.
