Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. Report says the Central Bank of Nigeria will further strengthen the Naira by injecting more dollars into the foreign exchange market this week. The report claims the CBN will increase dollar supply with a view to ensuring liquidity in the interbank market.
2. Two groups of youths and activists have fixed April 6 to protest to the National Assembly against alleged attempt by President Muhammadu Buhari to silence federal lawmakers. This is contained in a statement jointly signed by the Movement for the Advancement of National Transformation (MANTRA) and the Coalition in Defence of Nigerian Democracy and Coalition (CDNDC).
3. Boko Haram has released a new video threatening to invade Cameroon and behead President Paul Biya whom they referred to as a bigger Christian. This was disclosed by a Boko Haram commander who spoke in French while displaying Biya’s picture in a news magazine.
4. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB), on Saturday announced the arrest of about 25 persons throughout the country for extortion and illegally selling registration materials to the 2017 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) candidates. The culprits, according to the Registrar/Chief Executive of JAMB, Prof. Is-haq Oloyede, were apprehended by a combined team of its Anti-Corruption and Transparency Unit (ACTU); members of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) and the Nigeria Police Force, following a tip-off.
5. The Catholic Diocese of Nsukka in Enugu State, on Sunday, expressed anger over an attack on a seminarian by a group of masquerades, popularly called “oriokpa Nsukka”, in the area. Report says the seminarian, identified as Lawrence Ezeugwu is currently in critical condition following beatings and matchet cuts he received from the masked men. Meanwhile, one of the masked men has been arrested and currently in custody of the police.
6. Bally was Sunday night evicted from the Big Brother Naija reality show, leaving 5 housemates in the final week of the reality show. Bally, however, expressed satisfaction over his performance for having stayed till a week before the grand finale of the show. Efe, Bisola, Tboss, Debbie-rise, and Marvis are now through to the final of the show.
7. The Group Managing Director of Capital Oil and Gas Limited, Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah, has insisted he was not detained by the DSS but was only made to report at the headquarters of the Department of State Services in Abuja daily. According to the report, Ubah claimed the DSS was mediating in a financial dispute he had with the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.
8. The Christian Association of Nigeria has demanded that the Department of State Services should tender a written apology to four members of its Board of Trustees that were arrested without any offence. The Director of Legal and Public Affairs, CAN, Kwamkur Samuel, in a protest letter to the DG of DSS said the DSS should be cautious in the way it related to the ‘Body of Christ.’
9. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Ibadan zone has called for the resignation of the Vice Chancellor of the University of Ilorin, Professor AbdulGaniyu Ambali over an alleged fraud levelled against him. ASUU while urging the VC to honourably resign his appointment to allow for independent investigation of fraud levelled against him noted that the federal government cannot continue to pretend to be against corruption when it has remained silent on several whistle blowing over allegations of fraud by the present and immediate past Vice Chancellor of the institution.
10. Petroleum Tanker Drivers, PTD, branch of the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has commenced a nationwide indefinite strike. The workers are protesting non-renewal of their Collective Bargaining Agreement, CBA, that expired three years ago, deplorable conditions of nation’s high ways, alleged harassment by security, especially Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, and plans by Capital Oil Plc to declare 2000 members redundant due to its unresolved issue with Petroleum Products Marketing Company, PPMC.
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