News update,Wednesday, 09/09/20

**Fuel, electricity hike: OPC flays FG, says subsidy removal ill-timed

**FG, states, local govts, others receive N3.9trn from FAAC in six months — NEITI

**FG dragged to ECOWAS Court over hate speech enforcement

**FG launches new rapid test kit for HIV

**LASG inaugurates TaskForce on human trafficking

**Pastor Adeboye, wife celebrate 53rd wedding anniversary

**Ondo 2020: I’ll defeat Akeredolu, Jegede, says Agboola

**We are building new NAN -/ MD

**2,286 primary school teachers in Niger state caught with forged certificate

**Ebonyi takes over 100-year-old Presbyterian hospital

**Kaduna spends N400,000 to treat each COVID-19 patient – El-Rufai

**We’ll develop historical Irefin Palace in Ibadan to rival Buckingham Palace – Oyo

**Tension as Ondo Monarch announces death of rival monarch

**Police arrest 6 over attack on Ikorodu monarch

**SON destroys 4 truck loads of substandard electric cables

**ECOWAS postpones launch of single currency

**Davido ‘falls’ face down during visit to Oniru

**We’ll stamp out kidnapping in Akokoland — Jegede assures

**NSCDC confirms death of kidnapped officer in Kaduna

**UN condemns use of schools as isolation centres, IDP Camps, Military bases

**Japanese firm develops robot that can kill COVID-19

**Smugglers rob, abandon Nigerian migrants in Sahara Desert

**White House optimistic on prospects for new stimulus

**Everton close to loan deal for Tomori

**Maja named Ligue 1 Player to watch in 2020/21

Wishing you a lovely day.