Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has said he cannot lose sleep over the breakaway faction of the ruling party. Oshiomhole, while addressing journalists at the National Assembly after a marathon meeting with the APC caucus in the House of Representatives, described members of the Reformed All Progressives Congress (R-APC) as hired mercenaries.
2. The All Progressives Congress, APC, on Thursday insisted that there is no faction in the party. Bolaji Abdullahi, spokesman of the party, said the breakaway Reformed APC, R-APC, were never members of the ruling party. He said the membership status of the R-APC leaders was being investigated. Abdullahi said having failed to scuttle the national convention of the ruling party, they decided to be mischievous.
3. A former Minister of Finance, Adamu Ciroma, is dead. The elder statesman was said to have died at Turkish Hospital in Abuja at the age of 84. Ciroma served as Minister of Finance in the government of Olusegun Obasanjo from 1999 to 2003. He was a founding member of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and also one time Managing Director of the New Nigerian newspapers.
4. The Senate Committee on Police Affairs has summoned the Inspector General of Police, IGP, Ibrahim Idris, over the Monday killing of seven police officers in Abuja. Abu Ibrahim, the Chairman of the Committee made the disclosure on the floor of the Senate on Thursday after the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, asked that the matter be investigated.
5. A Federal High Court sitting in Owerri, the Imo State capital has nullified wards, Local Government and state congresses of the state chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The presiding judge of the court, Lewis ordered for fresh congresses in the state. Allagoa, in a judgment that lasted for an hour, ordered APC, “to be responsible, save our democracy by conducting free and fair congresses in Imo State.”
6. The Department of State Service (DSS), has identified insecurity as a major threat to the 2019 general election. DSS Director General, Lawal Daura, raised the alarm in a presentation he made before the Senate Ad-hoc Committee on the Review of the Current Security Infrastructure in Nigeria. The committee is headed by Senate Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan. The DSS boss reportedly said the country is more divided then ever.
7. Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo on Thursday official started work as a facilitator and academic counsellor at the National Open University (NOUN). He resumed at the university’s study centre in Abeokuta, the Ogun state capital. Obasanjo met with a two final-year students of Christian Theology, Elijah Egehedi-Oke and Toriola Abigael, assigned to him for supervision.
The former president recently bagged a PhD on Christian Theology from the tertiary institution making him the first PhD holder from the university.
8. The sureties billed to stand for the release of former National Security Adviser (NSA) Colonel Sambo Dasuki (rtd) are in the final stage of perfecting the bail conditions granted him by Justice Ijeoma Ojukwu of the Federal High Court Abuja. Report says sureties, who volunteered on their own to bail the ex-NSA, have substantially met the bail conditions as announced by the court.
9. A Catholic priest, Fr. Andrew Anah, who was abducted on Wednesday in Delta State, has regained his freedom. Anah, the parish priest of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church Obomkpa, was abducted by gunmen along the Obomkpa/Issele-Uku Road. It was the second time he would be abducted in less than 12 months.
10. Members of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) in the north on Thursday urged President Muhammadu Buhari to bring to an end the incessant killings in the country. CAN made the call when delegation from the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) from 19 Northern States met with the president at the State House on Thursday. The delegation, led by (Reverend) Yakubu Pam, said all those involved in the senseless killings of innocent Nigerians must be brought to justice irrespective of religion or ethnicity.
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