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  • Israel’s Normalization Deal Being Considered By Five More Countries
    White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Thursday said that five more countries are seriously considering striking a normalization deal with Israel after the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain signed accords this week.
    Meadow while speaking to reporters on Air Force One on the flight that carried President Donald Trump to a campaign rally in Wisconsin, would not identify the five nations.


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  • U.N. Food Chief Urges Billionaires To Step Up To Help World's Starving
    U.N. food chief David Beasley called on the world’s billionaires on Thursday to step up to help save some 30 million people he said are at risk of dying if they don’t receive help from the World Food Programme.
    Beasley told the U.N. Security Council that Globally some 270 million people were headed toward the brink of starvation and WFP hopes to reach 138 million people this year.


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  • Nigerian Government Says COVID-19 Vaccines Will Not Be Available Until Next Year
    Nigerian Government has cautioned Nigerians to be careful during this COVID-19 pandemic era, adding that vaccines will not be available until 2021.
    the Minister of Health, Osagie Ehanire while speaking during a briefing by the Presidential Task Force on COVID-19 on Thursday in Abuja, asked the citizens to adhere to the non-pharmaceutical interventions.


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  • Federal Inland Revenue Service Rakes N438bn From Non-Oil Tax Revenue In July
    The Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) said that it collected N490 billion in tax receipts in July, with a sum of N438 billion, representing 89% came from Non-oil receipts.
    The revenue agency in a statement on Thursday explained that the significant drop in oil revenue to N52 billion, representing 11%, is due to the global shock caused by the COVID-19 pandemic which led to a significant cut in crude oil production by oil-producing nations.


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  • Nigerian Government Orders Account Holders To Fill Self-Certification Forms
    The Federal Government has directed all account holders in the country to obtain and fill self-certification forms in line with the Income Tax Regulations 2019.


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  • Nigerian Petroleum Corporation Records N20.36bn Trading Surplus in July
    Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) said on Thursday that it recorded an increased trading surplus of N20.36 billion in July 2020 compared to the N2.12 billion surplus in June 2020 in its operations.
    NNPC Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Dr. Kennie Obateru, in Abuja, explained that the details of the figures were captured in the July 2020 NNPC Monthly Financial and Operations Report (MFOR).


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  • Nigerian Government Launches Central Database For Recovered Stolen Assets
    The Federal Government has launched a central database for the management of recovered assets.
    The Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami during the launch on Thursday, in Abuja, said all the assets that have been recovered by the Federal Government are now tied to specific projects.


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  • Nigerian President Signs Nigeria Police Bill 2020 Into Law
    President Muhammadu Buhari has signed the Nigeria Police Bill, 2020 into law.
    The President in a memo dated September 16, 2020 in a statement by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, communicated his assent to the Bill to the National Assembly, through the Clerk of the legislature.


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  • Nigeria Records 131 New COVID-19 Cases
    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control has confirmed 131 new cases of coronavirus in the country. This brings the total number of COVID-19 infections recorded in the country so far to 56,735.
    The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) in a tweet on its official handle on Thursday showed that Lagos had 45 cases, Kaduna and Plateau 17, while the FCT recorded 16.


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  • China's Shanghai Composite Completes 4th Day of Gains
    The Shanghai Composite Index was down 9 points or 0.3% to 3,286 on Wednesday at around 01:00 PM Shanghai time, ahead of the Fed's interest rate decision later and quarterly economic updates later in the day, with the healthcare sector falling the most after the Chinese health authority reported 12 new COVID-19 cases today, up from eight a day earlier. 

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