News update, Saturday, 17/10/2020

**Strike: FG promises to release N40b to ASUU

**WTO: 79 countries endorse Okonjo-Iweala’s candidacy

**Awolowo’s daughter, Revd Tola Oyediran, is dead

**Buhari mourns Awolowo’s daughter

**EndSARS: Bloody protest as hoodlums attack protesters in Edo

**EndSars: Fayemi appeals to protesters in Ekiti

**PDP ratifies Bisi as Osun caretaker chair

**INEC: Ignore PDP’s diatribe against Onochie,APC urges Senate

**NANS President urges school fee waiver as govt palliative to students

**ENDSARS Protesters resume protest in Ughelli after deaths

**EndSARS: Man narrates harrowing experience in Awkuzu SARS cell

**EndSARS protests cause gridlock at Magboro

**EndSARS: Youths protest crazy bill, SARS in Lagos

**Be civil, activist advises EndSARS protesters

**Court remands man for sexually assaulting his neighbour’s 12-year-old daughter

**Kano Fire Service saves 69 lives in 2 weeks

**COVID-19: 181 students, teachers test positive in Lagos

**Nigeria’s rising inflation worrisome, experts say

**NBC confirms Twitter account hack

**UK lawmaker writes Dominic Raab over financial support to SARS 

**UN Women, Standard Bank equip women farmers

**Remdesivir has ‘little or no effect’ on COVID-19 mortality: WHO study

**Malaysian police probe Anwar over bid to become PM

**EU says post-Brexit talks continue, UK denies

**Gerrard backs international football despite spike of Covid cases

**Barca ponder Messi rest as Madrid continue to wait on Hazard

Have a nice, stress-free and lovely weekend.