UPDATES 1st September 2016

UPDATES: Nigeria Slips into Recession, FG Attempts to Allay Concerns. Troubled Aero Contractors Suspends Flight Operations. Amaechi: Calabar-Port Harcourt Coastal Rail Line to Be Completed in 2018. Fayose to Buhari: Hunger is Killing Nigerians. Zuckerberg Pledges Support for Nigerian Tech Startups, SMEs. FG Approves Three-year External Borrowing Plan. Return My Late Son for Burial, Father Tells Stella Oduah. Eight Banks Readmitted into FX Market. Elumelu Seeks Stronger Business Ties Between Africa and France. Number Porting: 568,782 Subscribers Switched Networks in Three Years. WorldRemit Commends CBN for Licencing Money Transfers Operarors. Ondo PDP Disowns Jimoh Ibrahim. Team Nigeria to Depart for Rio2016 Paralympic Games Thursday. Flood: Abaji Chairman Blames Residents. NNPC To Consider FCT In CSR Projects. 100 Days: AMAC Chairman Lauded For Giant Strides. Universities Berate FG Over TSA, Says Policy Negates Autonomy. Recession: Resign If You Can’t Fix Economy, PDP Tells PMB. UNICEF: 22% of Children under Five in South-west Suffer Stunted Growth. EFCC grills Ogunlewe over N250m FUNAAB funds scam. Trump vows no legal status for those who enter US illegally. We’ll Not Allocate New Plots Of Land Now —FCT Minister. Jibrin appears before Sagay’s panel on corruption. Foreign currency inflow to oil, gas sector down to $8.09m. AfDB, JICA offer $3b funding to African businesses. Nigeria, UK sign MoU on return of migrants. LASUCOM: Provost Raises Alarm Over Medical Capital Flight. Fuel prices still above standard N145/litre in 28 states. I must co-chair any PDP convention – Sherif. Oyegun Receives Top PDP Leaders Into APC, Says PDP Dead In Edo. Good morning=-)