Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. Gunmen suspected to be members of Boko Haram terrorists have hijacked a passenger bus and kidnapped about eight indigenes of Igboho and Ogboro towns along Igboho-Igbeti road in Oyo state.
The suspects blocked the road and reportedly abducted the eight passengers in the bus and whisked them to unknown destination.
2. President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the constitution of membership for the National Food Security Council.
The Council, to be chaired by the President, will have as members, the Governors of Kebbi, Taraba, Plateau, Lagos, Ebonyi, Delta States as well as the Secretary to the Government of the Federation; the Chief of Staff to the President; the National Security Adviser and seven (7) cabinet Ministers.
3. Nigeria’s former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has claimed that ex-US Ambassador to the country, Thomas Pickering and former President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor, Susan Rice, were the people who prepared the tea that killed Chief MKO Abiola.
Fani-Kayode, on his Twitter page last night also accused the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) of being behind the death of former Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha.
4. Several persons were said to have been killed and property worth millions of naira destroyed following a series of attacks on Takum and Ussa local government areas of Taraba State by herdsmen.
Senior Special Assistant to the Executive Chairman of Ussa Local Government on Media and Special Duties, Mr. Agabi Andefiye said the attackers burnt houses in Muji I and Muji II, Kando and Kpashimbe villages in Takum local government, killing five people, including a pregnant woman and her husband.
5. The Court of Appeal in Abuja has trashed out an application by Senator Dino Melaye seeking to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) from initiating the process of his recall.
Justice Mohammed Mustapha-led two member committee ruled that there was no time limit to complete the recall process as provided in Section 69 (b) of the 1999 Constitution.
6. President Muhammadu Buhari, Bill Gate, among others, on Friday attended the grand wedding Fatiha of Alhaji Aliko Dangote’s daughter, Hajiya Fatima and her groom, Jamilu Abubakar in Kano.
The wedding Fatiha between Fatima and Jamilu, son of a former Inspector-General of police, Muhammad Abubakar, took place at 12 noon at the Kano Emir’s palace.
7. The Kwara State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Iyiola Oyedepo, has said that no fewer than 800 members of the All Progressives Congress in the state have defected to the PDP.
According to Oyedepo, Dr. Hanafi Alabere led the defectors from Alanamu Ward in Ilorin West Local Government Area.
8. The House of Representatives again replied the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, on Friday, faulting his denial that he had engaged a transaction adviser on the planned concession of the Ajaokuta Steel Company.
The House is against the concession and has asked Fayemi to stop any ongoing plans to accomplish it.
9. The Zonal Director, National Housing Programme, North-Central Zone, Mr. Valentine Nwaimo, has said that the Federal Government has embarked on the construction of no fewer than 532 housing units in six states in the zone and the Federal Capital Territory.
He explained that the housing units under the National Housing Project were in average of 76 units for Kwara, Benue, Nasarawa, Plateau, Kwara and Kogi states, adding that those for the FCT were high-rise buildings.
10. On the international scene, South Africa’s former President, Jacob Zuma, is to face prosecution for 16 charges of corruption, Chief Prosecutor Shaun Abrahams has confirmed.
Mr. Abrahams said he believed there were “reasonable prospects of a successful prosecution.”
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