UPDATES 21st JANUARY 2016

UPDATES: NNPC shuts Port Harcourt, Kaduna refineries over attacks on pipelines. Oil giant Shell to sack 10,000 workers. Workers in Ghana protest over increase in electricity tariff, water rates, fuel prices. Open University Decries Discrimination Against Graduates. No Document On Crude Oil Swap – PPMC. Bill Gates, Dangote, Govs Move To End Child, Maternal Deaths In The North. Crisis Brews Over Olubadan’s Successor As 2 Lay Claim To Stool. Nigeria Lost $3.3bn To IOCs Through NLNG Tax Break – Report. 132 VVF Victims Get Free Surgery In Kano. Africa Losses 34,000 Elephants Annually – US. PDP’s Candidate Asks Court To Sack Faleke From NASS. Reps Begin Deliberations On 2016 Budget. Baze University Budgets Over N8bn For Research, Development. Anti-Corruption: Army Orders Officers To Declare Assets. FG Targets Billions As Revenue From Stamp Duty. Edo 2016: We have no anointed candidate —Odigie-Oyegun. Ekiti farmers protest Fayose’s airport project site. MTN fined $160m with another telecom firm in Cameroon for tax evasion. 500 ex-militants protest non-payment of allowance in Rivers. We’ll eradicate Lassa fever by April, says FG. Ambode lauds Lagos admission into Odu’a Group. Court grants 26 MASSOB members bail in Abia. Assign more judges to fraud cases, Magu tells CJ. Produce Dasuki in court on February 16, court orders FG. Court sends Nnamdi Kanu, others from SSS custody to Kuje prison custody. Court sentences 2 domestic staff to death over murder of ex-vice chancellor. Lai Mohammed must name 15 ex-governors, others that stole N1.34 trillion, says Ekiti governor. 2,700 BDC operators fighting the Naira — CBN Gov. Until you perfect your art well enough to live, breathe and develop with it, you are not a success. You are known by what you do. Good morning and have a great day