CKN Nigeria News Headlines Friday 24th August 2012

·         Insecurity: FG to review defence policy

·         MDGs training: FG admits withholding teachers’ allowance

·         Flood kills 4 in Jigawa

·         All-share index drops on NSE

·         OAU inducts 201 doctors, dentists

·         ECOWAS may use force if diplomacy fails in Mali - Jonathan

·         Ojukwu did not fight civil war for secession - Okorocha

·         Ekiti denies short-changing LG workers

·         FRCN Ibadan zonal office workers protest non-payment of salaries

·         FG partners IFAD on agriculture

·         Awka: ANPC retirees withdraw suit against govt

·         Ondo PDP leaders fault choice of standard-bearer

·         Braithwaite, Fawehinmi, others endorse Mimiko for second term

·         Akeredolu’s promise to create 30,000 jobs in 100 days deceptive – MCO •Claim is false, cheap propaganda – Akeredolu group

·         Osun: PDP warns ACN not to plunge Judiciary into chaos

·         ICPC partners NUC to eradicate corruption

·         Benue: 3-month-old baby stolen in church

·         Inmates accuse Ogun prison officials of extortion

·         Two former victims identify alleged killers of General’s daughter

·         NMA, others differ on FG’s proposed mega hospitals

·         ‘Tinubu’s comments on civil service unfair’

·         Police, SSS differ on Oshiomhole aide’s killing

·         Two suspected assassins die in Bayelsa gun battle

·         Protest follows nullification of Kwara LG chairman’s election

·         NUPENG suspends strike

·         Group carpets minister on Nigeria’s religious status

·         Two killed as herdsmen raid Plateau community

·         Outrage over murder of Anambra rape, robbery victim

·         Murder of Gen’s daughter: Time now for an all-embracing cyber crime law

·         Facebook murder: ‘I was a victim of Cynthia’s killers’

·         Subsidy: Indicted oil marketers begin repayment, says Obi

·         Jonathan assures sustainable power by 2020

·         PDP chieftains drag Uduaghan, Nwaoboshi to court