Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. An Oyo State High Court presided over by Justice Olajumoke Aiki on Friday declared the review of the 1957 Olubadan Chieftaincy Declaration and other Related Chieftaincies in Ibadan land by the Justice Akintunde Boade Review Commission, which was set up by the Oyo State Government, as unconstitutional, illegal, null, void and of no effect.
While delivering the judgment, Aiki held that wearing of beaded crowns was beyond the purview of sections 10, 12 and 25 of the Oyo State Chiefs Law, stating that Section 25 of the Chiefs Law could not be treated in isolation to the provisions of Parts Two and Three of the Chiefs Laws.
2. Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, has disclosed that people of the state are still in fear of more attacks from Fulani herdsmen.
Speaking when he received some governors on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, on Friday in Makurdi, the state capital, Ortom said the fear of the people was due to the continuous threat by the herdsmen who keep issuing daily threat to take over Benue land.
3. Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, Friday, inaugurated a National Sanctions Committee for the country.
The mandate of the committee is to trace and freeze financial flows of terrorist organisations.
4. Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, says the commission has 74 million voters in its register by the second week of January.
INEC Director of Voter Education and Publicity, Oluwole Osaze-Uzzi, noted that Yakubu spoke at the 15th edition of the Daily Trust Dialogue, where he was represented by INEC National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee (IVEC), Solomon Soyebi.
5. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated the All Progressives Congress (APC) governors over their silence on the failure of President Muhammadu Buhari to visit Benue victims.
The party described the failure of APC government to visit victims of attacks as an act of hypocrisy, adding that the same APC governors, who in 2013 insulted the PDP for delay in visiting Borno at the heat of insurgency attacks, have lost their voices.
6. Kidnappers went on the rampage in Munya Local Government Area of Niger State on Thursday night, abducting eight persons in a single operation, which lasted over an hour.
Among those abducted and still being held are the Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the local government area, Mr. Anthony Francis, as well as Keza ward chairman, Mr. Amos Keza.
7. The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra on Friday asked the Federal Government to stop harassing the family of former President Goodluck Jonathan, especially his wife, Patience.
The group described what the wife of the former president was passing through as a witch-hunt and character assassination.
8. The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra and the Indigenous People of Biafra have warned herdsmen to steer clear from the South-East and South-South states.
MASSOB and IPOB cautioned that they would be forced to resist the herdsmen should they (herdsmen) fail to adhere to their warning.
9. Boko Haram jihadists have killed five people in an attack on a village in Adamawa state, northeast Nigeria, a community leader and a local resident said on Friday.
10. Five oil workers have been kidnapped in Nigeria’s restive southern Niger Delta region, an area regularly hit by militant attacks and abductions.
Suspected militants seized the workers on Wednesday near the Ajoki community, which borders Edo and Delta States, said Delta State police spokesperson, Andrew Aniamaka.
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