Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The Nigerian Naira is steadily recovering against the dollar as it exchanged between N380 (buying rate) and N390 (selling rate) on Friday afternoon. At the Bureau De Change (BDC) window, the Naira was sold at N399 to the dollar, while the pound sterling and the Euro were sold at N500 and N400. The Nigerian currency appreciated at the interbank market, closing at N307 to the dollar, from N308 posted on Thursday.
2. Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has accused his estranged Senior Special Assistant on Security, Terwase Akwaza, otherwise known as Ghana as the mastermind of the recent attack on Zaki Biam, which left scores dead. The governor said he was determined to ensure Ghana’s arrested and prosecution. He was addressing newsmen yesterday, after visiting victims of last Monday’s attack.
3. The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, on Friday justified the arrest of only suspects of Yoruba extraction involved in the recent clash in Ile-Ife, Osun State, which claimed about 46 lives. Addressing State House Correspondents shortly after a meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, Idris said crime has no tribe nor identity, stressing that the police only applied the law in the arrest of the suspects.
4. Senator Dino Melaye has vowed that the Publisher of Sahara Reporters, Omoyele Sowore and others must go to jail for an alleged crime of cyber-stalling against his person. He stated this on his Twitter handle (@dino_melaye) while sharing a copy of a petition he wrote to the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Ibrahim Kpotum Idris, calling for an investigation into the alleged crime.
5. Nigerian author, Chimamanda Adichie, has been named among 50 greatest world leaders in the 2017 Fortune magazine ranking. The ‘Half of a Yellow Sun’ writer was ranked 42 on the list.
6. No fewer than three persons have been killed and several houses burnt down in another attack on Tse-Achia village, near Kasar in the outskirts of Zaki Biam, Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State. Police Public Relations Officer in the State, ASP Moses Yanmu, confirmed that the gunmen carried out the attack in the early hours of Friday.
7. The Appeal Court sitting in Akure, the Ondo State Capital on Friday declared the impeachment of the former governor of Ondo State, Alhaji Ali Olanusi illegal. Olanusi, who was deputy governor for six years under former governor, Olusegun Mimiko, was impeached in April 2015.
8. A new seven-page letter by the Department of Security Service (DSS) which sheds more light on the corruption allegations against the Acting-Chairman of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has been released. The letter is a written response to a request by the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, which called for documentary evidence of the allegations raised by the DSS in its letters to the Senate, which stalled Magu’s confirmation as substantive head of the anti-graft agency.
9. The Presidency has warned Nigerians against continuous attack on the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. The warning was issued by the Personal Assistant to the President on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie. She noted that those who were uncomfortable with the anti-corruption fight of the present government were behind the unwarranted attacks against Buhari and his appointees.
10. The Police in Lagos yesterday, rescued two women who attempted to jump into the lagoon from the Third Mainland and Carter bridges. They claimed during an interview that they attempted suicide in order to escape from those they were indebted to. The two women are Taiwo Titilayo Momoh, a textile dealer at Balogun market and 61 year old Abigail Ogunyinka.
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