Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. A group of Christians in the North, under the aegis of Arewa Christians and Indigenous Pastors Association, has called on Nigerians to rescue the country from President Muhammadu Buhari’s “bad leadership.”
Among the global bodies from which the association sought help are the African Union, the European Union, the Commonwealth of Nations, the United Nations and the United States of America.
2. The Abia State governor, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has been accused of playing a role in the recent attempt to create a factional leadership of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
The Media and Publicity Secretary, Mr. Emma Powerful, claimed that the governor in collaboration with the department of state services, DSS created a fictitious figure as factional leader of the group to whittle down IPOB’s growing influence.
3. Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, has said that Igbos were intimidating President Muhammadu Buhari with the Biafra agitation in order to get appointments.
Sagay said Biafra agitators were doing so for selfish reasons.
4. Former Minister of Health, Prof A.B.C. Nwosu, has described Igbos as lazy thinkers, who are acting strangely ahead of the 2019 general elections.
According to him, Igbos were thinking that by merely supporting President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, they will automatically become President in 2023.
5. Over 15 pro-Biafran groups converged at the home of the late Igbo leader, Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, in Nnewi, Anambra State over the weekend.
The agitators held a prayer session and insisted that there was no going back on their quest for a sovereign state of Biafra.
6. A mathematics teacher in a secondary school in Ekwulobia, Aguata Local Government Area of Anambra State, Chiadikobi Ezeibekwe, has married his 17-year-old biological sister.
He claimed that God told him to do so; they are now living together.
7. The British Government has reacted to the incessant killing across Nigeria by suspected Fulani herdsmen.
Prime Minister, Theresa May, said the British Government is engaging Nigeria’s federal and state governments over the killings.
8. Human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN), has described the National Assembly’s attempts to reorder the 2019 elections sequence as illegal
Falana said reordering of election sequence breached several provisions of the 1999 Constitution.
9. The Ekiti State governor, Chief Ayodele Fayose, has noted that Nigerians are dying in silence, adding that the corporate existence of the country is being threatened by selective administration of justice, marginalisation.
He also said that vendetta against perceived political opponents is the order of the day, while calling on well-meaning citizens to rise up and salvage the situation before it is too late.
10. Troops of Operation LAFIYA DOLE in Borno state has killed five Boko Haram insurgents and captured a top commander of the group in ongoing operations in Sambisa Forest and the Lake Chad basin.
The Deputy Director, Army Public Relations of Operation Lafiya Dole, Col. Onyeama Nwachukwu, said troops also rescued three civilians, recovered vehicles and high calibre ammunition in various operations in the past two days.
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