NEWS UPDATES MONDAY 22ND FEBRUARY 2021

News update, Monday, 22/02/2021

**Abducted Kagara students, teachers regain freedom

**Niger Govt secures release of abducted passengers

**Expect to pay N195 per litre for petrol, marketers tell Nigerians

**Plane crashes in Abuja, all on board feared dead

**Minister confirms Abuja plane crash, provides details

**Police give ultimatum to Lagosians with exhibit, accident cars in stations to claim them

**Police arrest suspected ritualist for killing a child in Bauchi, recover 26 children’s cloths

**Kadaria, Kagara and abductors of our collective intelligence, by Festus Adedayo

**Atiku insists privatisation of refineries, other assets still best way forward

**Let’s come on same page against criminals  to put Nigeria right — Ikpeazu

**Okorocha’s battle for seized Royal Palm Estate

**Uzodinma’s aide led armed thugs to attack me —Okorocha

**Ensure $1.2b agric intervention facility gets to real farmers, NGO pleads

**Lagos Mobile Court jails ‘Soldier’

**Restructure now or else — Aboderin

**Consumers commission partners NAFDAC on COVID-19 vaccine information

**Automation of number plates, licence issuance knock-off middlemen — Official

**NCAA lifts ban on Boeing 737 Max Aircraft

**Roadside bombs in Afghan kill 3, injure 20

**Russia starts giving Covid vaccine to homeless

**Djokovic beats Medvedev to win ninth Australian Open title

**Man Utd bounce back to beat Newcastle

**Djokovic defeats Medvedev to win Australian Open