Welcome to the AllNews roundup of the top 10 Nigeria news headlines for today Wednesday, April 14th, 2021.
Paris Saint-Germain defeated titleholders, Bayern Munich on away goals while Chelsea edged into the Champions League semifinals despite a late scare from Porto's acrobatic goal.
The London side reached the semis for the first time since 2014 after winning last week's first leg 2-0, although Porto gave them a late scare with Mehdi Taremi's injury-time goal. Read more here.
Yoruba Nation awareness was one of the activities at the Omituntun Festival of Arts and Culture held in Ibadan, the Oyo State Capital on Monday.
At the Omituntun Pacesetter Festival of Arts and Culture, tagged ‘Asa wa, Ipile wa,' Yoruba Nation awareness was made a part of the program for people to understand and endorse the need for Yoruba Nation as an entity. Read more here.
Convener of the #HarassBuhariOutofLondon Movement, Reno Omokri, has spoken on why his group suspended its protest against the medical trip embarked on by President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday.
The former aide to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan said the protest was suspended in the spirit of Ramadan. Read more here.
The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Pastor Enoch Adeboye, has visited the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai on Tuesday.
The duo had their meeting at the Sir Kashim Ibrahim Government House in Kaduna. Read more here.
Posters of the immediate past Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, were sighted in some conspicuous areas of Abuja on Tuesday.
This has resulted in some speculations that the former Governor of Kwara State might soon declare his intention to contest the 2023 presidential election. Read more here.
The Christ Evangelical and Life Intervention Ministry on Tuesday donated foodstuffs to Muslims in Rigasa, the outskirts of Kaduna.
General Overseer of the church, Pastor Yohanna Buru, said the donation was to enable the needy to participate fully in the 30-day Ramadan fast, which began on Tuesday. Read more here.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk reportedly attempted to hire the current Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess to take his own role as chief executive officer at Tesla in 2015.
A report by Business Insider revealed that before 2015, when he switched from BMW to Volkswagen, Diess had an employment contract with Tesla ready to sign. Read more here.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has released the full list of approved Computer Based Test (CBT) Centres for its Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) and Direct Entry (DE) processes.
The comprehensive list was contained in JAMB's weekly bulletin sent to AllNews on Monday. Read more here.
Leading social network Facebook is now testing a video speed-dating app called Sparked.
Sparked connects strangers so they can get to know each other through video calls. They will have 4 minutes to talk and see if the power is on. If both participants want to go further, they can indicate this after the video call and will then be rescheduled for a new 10-minute video interview this time around. After that point, Sparked can let the users exchange contact information and stay in touch via Instagram, iMessage, or email. Sparked is developed by the company's in-house NPE (New Product Experimentation) team. Read more here.
Bauchi State Government led by Governor Bala Mohammed is set to conduct a census of all commercial sex workers in the state.
Speaking during a sensitization workshop organized for commercial sex workers, the Permanent Commissioner in charge of Hisbah and Sharia implementation, Aminu Balarabe-Isah said the state needed accurate data on the prostitutes. Read more here.
That’s the roundup of the top 10 Nigeria news headlines this morning. More Nigeria news headlines are available on AllNews website.
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