Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. An alleged child killer, 23 year old undergraduate of the University of Port Harcourt, Ifeanyi Dike who allegedly killed his 8-year-old niece, Chikamso Victory at Eliozu area of Rivers state has claimed to be insane. Counsel to Ifeanyi Dike, Lezina Amegua made the claim in an application filed before Justice Adolphus Enebeli of a High Court in Port Harcourt. Amegua in his application asked the court to allow his client go for medical examination.
2. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has frozen the bank accounts of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF) Babachir Lawal. Report claims that both the personal account of Lawal, and the account of Rholavision Engineering Limited, a company incorporated by the former SGF in 1990, have been frozen by the EFCC.
3. President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday assented to the National Senior Citizens Centre Act, 2018, and seven others. The other bills signed into law are the Legislative Houses (Power and Privileges), 2018; National Institute of Legislative Studies (Amendment) Act, 2018, and The Rail Loan (International Bank) (Repeal) Act, 2018, and Avoidance of Double Taxation Agreement between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and the Kingdom of Spain (Domestication and Enforcement) Act, 2018, were also assented to by Buhari.
4. Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) says there is no connection between the detention of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr Babachir Lawal, and former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement. Acting Spokesman of the commission, Mr Samin Amaddin, stated that both incidents were only coincidental, and contrary to insinuation in some quarters.
5. A Federal High Court in Abuja, on Friday, turned down request by the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to order the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, to produce their leader, Nnamdi Kanu. In a ruling that was delivered by Justice Binta Nyako, the court dismissed an application that was filed by a team of lawyers representing the IPOB leader, which prayed the court to compel Buratai to produce their client, either dead or alive. Justice Nyako held that Ejiofor failed to convince the court that Kanu was seen with soldiers at any time.
6. Eight persons were Thursday killed and 10 others injured, after suspected Fulani herdsmen launched a fresh attack on Jabu-Maingo village of Bassa Local Government Area of Plateau State. It was gathered that the attack which took place at about 9:00pm also left 20 houses burnt with foodstuff and property worth millions of Naira destroyed. Police Public Relations Officer in the state, ASP Tyopev Matthias Terna, confirmed the attack.
7. Benue state governor, Samuel Ortom has refuted the statement credited to the Minister of Defense Mansur Dan-Ali that anti-grazing law was the reason herdsmen are killing people. Ortom described the statement from a high placed personality like Dan-Ali as provoking to the families of victims killed by herdsmen. He said President Buhari was being misled by people around him, adding that Dan-Ali’s comment has implied the federal government has provided immunity for herders and their cattle who now kill and maim.
8. Rev. Dr. Musa Asake, General Secretary, Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, on Friday stated that leaders of the Jama’atu Nasril Islam, JNI, were behind herdsmen killings across the country. Asake berated Islamic leaders for ignoring CAN position on the ongoing genocide in some states of the Federation.
9. The Naira on Friday exchanged for N361 to a dollar in the Bureau de Change segment of the market. This is as theCentral Bank of Nigeria (CBN) intervened in the Foreign Exchange Market to the tune of $304.4 million. The Bank’s Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr Isaac Okorafor, in a statement in Abuja on Friday reiterated that the objective of the CBN towards boosting liquidity, production and trade.
10. A former Governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has declared that no one can stop him from travelling to his home state. He said he will go there peacefully to see his constituents. The Kano Command of the police had warned Kwankwaso, who is now a serving senator, against visiting Kano. But Kwankwaso, who spoke through his spokesperson, Binta Sipikin, in Kano, said he will go to the state with seven camera drones, three international media outfits and a host of other top national and international friends.
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