NEWS UPDATES THURSDAY 25TH FEBRUARY 2021

News update, Thursday, 25/02/2021

**FEC approves N6.2bn for NAFDAC, FCT projects

**Senate confirms Bawa EFCC chairman
 
**Akeredolu sworn-in as Governor for second term

**Tinubu, five governors at Akeredolu's Inauguration

**Akeredolu promises to bring back Obaseki to APC

**He doesn’t represent us – Northern Elders rejects Gumi 

**Insecurity: Catholic Bishops warn against looming breakup

**Group calls for release of traditional ruler, lecturer abducted in Rivers

**I prayed for COVID-19 not to end by mistake – Apostle Suleman

**Laws to ban open grazing in Ogun underway, says speaker 

**Army recovers bodies of soldiers killed in Orlu

**Zulum visits hospitals, confirms 10 dead, 47 injured after Boko Haram’s RPG hit Maiduguri

**Ortom, Och’Idoma, others task traditional rulers to maintain peace in their domains

**Death toll in Boko Haram on Nigeria’s Maiduguri rises to 16

**Banning cryptocurrencies was in interest of Nigerians – CBN

**Victims of NAF plane crash for burial Thursday

**Suspected pirates hijack boat, 11 passengers in Rivers

**Man tortured to death over missing goat in Benue

**USAID invests $19m in Training of Health Workers in Nigeria

**First batch of COVID-19 vaccine lands in Ghana

**Nigerian appointed dean of law faculty in Ugandan university

**Niger opposition leader claims election win despite official results

**Senegal must ready for ‘battle’ with jihadists, says president

**Tiger Woods seriously injured in car accident in Los Angeles