Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has blasted some African leaders who support xenophobic attacks, insisting that such people were not fit to lead.
Obasanjo said if African leaders should encourage attacks, especially South Africans, it would be calamitous for them and their citizens.
2. Reports have emerged detailing how former President, Goodluck Jonathan allegedly rejected an offer from the UK government to rescue the abducted Chibok girls.
According to the report, the British Armed Forces offered to attempt to rescue the 276 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in 2014, but were stopped by Jonathan.
3. President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday spoke with former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State on the telephone.
Buhari called to congratulate Obasanjo on his 80th birthday, while he told Bello that “all is well with him” and thanked the governor for his support and prayers.
4. Embattled factional Chairman, National Caretaker Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, has said members of the party were free to join other political associations to achieve their political ambition.
Markarfi noted that neither him nor any member of the caretaker committee had, however, joined the proposed Advanced Peoples Democratic Party.
5. Retired Prelate of Methodist Church Nigeria, His Eminence, Dr. Sunday Mbang has described former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the best President Nigeria ever had.
According to Mbang, no President since independence has matched Obasanjo’s achievements, stressing that successive governments had not equaled Obasanjo’s records.
6. Fiery preacher and the senior Pastor of Omega Fire Ministries, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, has been accused by one Stephanie Otobo of impregnating and abandoning her.
A letter from Festus Keyamo Chambers dated March 4, 2017 and addressed to the Inspector-General of Police claimed that Stephanie began a romantic relationship with Suleiman in Canada in 2015.
7. Gov. Ayo Fayose of Ekiti state has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to also call him on the telephone if he is truly hale and hearty as his aides claim.
Fayose picked holes in the reports that Buhari had spoken in one week, first with the king of Morocco and next with the president of the African Union.
8. The Upper Chamber of the National Assembly has uncovered an alleged fraud of over N5 trillion by staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.
Senator Kabiru Marafa, Chairman, Senate Committee on Petroleum Downstream, said the NNPC alone would account for N5.2 trillion it collected as subsidy from the Federal Government for importation of petroleum products, particularly Premium Motor Spirit, PMS, otherwise known as petrol between 2006 and 2016.
9. The Federal Government has denied imminent famine in the country as reported by some United Nations (UN) agencies early in the year.
Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Audu Ogbeh, made the denial.
According to Ogbeh, it was impossible for Nigeria to face famine or starvation because the country remained a major source of food for other African countries like Sudan, Libya and Chad.
10. The death has been announced of Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Omatek Plc, Mrs. Florence Seriki (MFR).
Seriki passied away at the Lagos State Teaching Hospital (LUTH) on Friday in her 50s.
Omatek Plc is the first firm to locally assemble computer cases in Nigeria and the first indigenous IT company to be listed on the Nigerian stock exchange.
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