Nigeria Breaking News,Today, Tuesday, 29th October 2019

This is a roundup of some breaking news in Nigeria for Today, 29th October 2019

Senator Abe’s Camp Gives Conditions For Peace In Rivers APC

The Senator Magnus Abe-led faction of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State has given conditions for peace to return to the party in the state.

The conditions were given by a former Commissioner for Justice in Rivers State, Wogu Boms, in Port Harcourt.

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State Governors Take Fresh Decision On Minimum Wage

The Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), says the consequential increments in the implementation of the N30,000 Minimum Wage Law would depend on the capacity of each state government.

Naija News reports that this was revealed by Kayode Fayemi, the chairman of the forum and Governor of Ekiti State, while briefing newsmen at the end of the meeting of the forum held in Abuja on Monday.

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Budget 2020: Fashola Shuns Buhari’s Directive, Jets Out Of Nigeria

Senate Committee on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has berated the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, for failing appearing before it to defend his budget.

Naija News reports that the Minister of State for Works and Housing, Engr. Aliyu had extended the apologies of Fashola to the committee who he said had travelled for an urgent national assignment.

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Biafra: Nnamdi Kanu Reveals What His Mother Told Him Before Her Death

The leader of the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, says his late mother, Ugoeze Sally Nnenne Okwu-Kanu, told him to do everything within his powers to restore Biafra.

Kanu made this comment while reacting to reports that some people including monarchs, were pleading with President Muhammadu Buhari led-government to grant him pardon and allow him to return home to bury his late mother.

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228 Inmates Flee As Flood Hits Prison In Kogi State

No fewer than 228 inmates have escaped from a medium federal correctional centre in Koton Karfe in Kogi State, north-central Nigeria after some parts of it collapsed owing to heavy flooding.

A report monitored on the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) by Naija News, says quoted the comptroller-general of the Nigeria Correctional Service (NCS), Jafar Ahmed, as saying this while speaking with journalists in Koton Karfe on Monday, October 28.

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source https://www.naijanews.com/2019/10/29/nigeria-breaking-newstoday-tuesday-29th-october-2019/