Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. The presidency has cleared the air on the alleged release of another set of 21 Chibok girls from the den of the Boko Haram insurgents.
In a statement, Senior Special Assistant to President Muhammadu Buhari on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu, stated that negotiations were ongoing to secure the release of more girls.
2. Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole, has debunked the media reports that plastic rice had entered the Nigerian market.
According to the minister, there is no evidence to back those claims, adding that the director general of the National Agency for Foods Drugs Administration and Control, NAFDAC, had briefed him that the report was untrue.
3. Former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has stated that the current economic recession in Nigeria was a clear indication that the federal structure was weak.
According to the Atiku, there was urgent need for Nigeria to reduce the Federal Government’s control on the economy which he said would make government function well.
4. The presidency has dismissed the claims that it deployed 47 career ambassadors-designate to various countries.
It said a circulating deployment was not endorsed by any official because it did not come from the ministry.
5. President Muhammadu Buhari has asked state governors to pay outstanding workers’ entitlements, from excess deductions for external debt service.
It noted that the refunds arose following the claims by the states that they had been overcharged in deductions for external debt service between 1995 and 2002.
6. The Civil Liberties Organisation (CLO) has described the ruling of the Judge of a Federal High Court, Abuja, Justice Binta Nyako, that the leader of the Indigenous Peoples of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu and 3 others standing trial before her court would be secretly tried as unacceptable.
CLO said such verdict was strange and a demonstration of the judge’s ignorance of constitutional law. It wondered when masquerades had become human beings in Nigeria to bear witnesses against living humans.
7. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has called on the South East zone to seek more ways of collaboration.
He noted that the zone was unique and that it needed to use its uniqueness to its advantage to negotiate the actualisation of their aspirations.
8. Former Governor of Delta State, Chief James Onanefe Ibori, has been placed under house arrest in London following his release from prison.
The London court, which released him Wednesday morning has restricted him to his St. John’s Wood residence.
9. The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Thursday claimed that its threat stopped President Muhammadu Buhari from attending the South-East Economic and Security Summit.
The group said it was happy that Buhari now knew how strong they were.
10. An All Progressives Congress member of the House of Representatives, Mrs. Ayo Omidiran, on Thursday, dismissed insinuations that the party’s national leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would leave the APC for another political party.
According to her, Tinubu’s strong allies, like the Governor of Osun State, Rauf Aregbesola, and other associates, would not leave the APC which they sacrificed so much to build for anybody.
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