Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. Hajiya Rakiya Adamu, sister of President Muhammadu Buhari has called on Nigerians to pray for the President and stop wishing him dead.
Mrs. Adamu, 84-year-old said all the President needed from every Nigerian is prayer to succeed in the task of addressing the problems facing the nation, saying that Buhari, being a mortal, was bound to fall ill or even die “at any time his creator wishes.”
2. Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Board of Trustees (BoT), Senator Walid Jibrin, has dissociated the party from the story in a section of the media that President Muhammadu Buhari is dead.
Jibrin said those behind the rumour were only desperate power seekers and urged them to desist from the act and keep praying for the President’s quick recovery.
3. Rising from an emergency meeting in Abuja on Wednesday, the National Judicial Council (NJC) has extended the acting tenure of Walter Onnoghen as Chief Justice of Nigeria.
The body has forwarded its resolution at the meeting to the Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, who submitted Onnoghen’s name for confirmation. The extension letter sent to the Presidency was reportedly signed by Justice Ibrahim Tanko Muhammad.
4. The National Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Ahmed Makarfi has vowed that the party would oust the All Progressives Congress from power in 2019. According to Makarfi, though the PDP wants to reclaim power from the opposition, it would not be in a tensed atmosphere.
5. The Emir of Kano, Malam Muhammadu Sanusi II, has accused Nigerian leaders of only caring for their pockets and immediate family members.
According to the monarch, most Nigerian leaders only thought of their pockets and families. He therefore called on those in power to start thinking of how to empower other persons instead of enriching their pockets.
6. The Federal Government yesterday informed the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, of its decision to amend the charges against the president of the Senate, Senator Bukola Saraki.
At the resumed trial on Tuesday, counsel to the government, Rotimi Jacobs announced the decision to amend the charges, saying the motion has been served on all parties involved.
7. The Department of State Services has interrogated the members of the Board of Trustees of the Christian Association of Nigeria over a video some Christian leaders have been using to mobilise funds for the rebuilding of churches destroyed by Boko Haram.
Four key members of the organisation’s BoT, who are also leaders of National Christian Elders Forum, were quizzed for four hours on Tuesday evening at the DSS headquarters in Abuja, following a video by CAN Trust Fund soliciting funds for CAN to rebuild churches destroyed by Boko Haram insurgents in the North-East.
8. Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, has insisted that President Muhammadu Buhari is neither sick nor hospitalized in the UK.
Mohammed, who was responding to questions from State House correspondents, after Wednesday’s weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, which was presided over by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, said Buhari was not in any hospital and that there was no need “to be giving bulletin” on his health status.
9. The Nigerian Army has claimed it has identified and arrested two soldiers who allegedly brutalised a crippled man in New Market Road, Ontisha, in Anambra State.
The army in a statement released Wednesday night noted that the soldiers had also been charged by their commanding officer for dragging and beating a crippled man for wearing a military camouflage.
10. The Presidency has said the condition of President Muhammadu Buhari is not same as that of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua.
The Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Femi Adesina, who made this clarification while featuring on a TV programme insisted that the situation then and now were different.
Adesina recalled that during Yar’Adua’s administration; the late President never handed over power to his Vice unlike what Buhari did when he embarked on his vacation.
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