Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. The Special Adviser, Media and Publicity to the President, Mr. Femi Adesina, has insisted that the All Progressives Congress, APC, will play a role in determining the choices President Muhammadu Buhari would make in picking the next cabinet ministers but the party would not lord it over him.
According to him, President Buhari, as a loyal party man would make provision for his party’s recommendations but would personally take definite decisions as to who gets what portfolio in the Federal Executive Council even as Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has hinted that there will be a cabinet of national unity.
2. The lawmaker representing Kaduna Central at the National Assembly, Senator Shehu Sani, has reacted to military report that bandits are now relocating to Kaduna and Niger States.
He confirmed the report to be true, adding that people living in Kamuku and Alawa villages within the two states had earlier reported the presence of dangerous strangers.
3. The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N169.74 billion for the award of contracts for the construction and rehabilitation of 10 roads across the country.
Mr Hakeem Bello, the Special Adviser to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing on Communication, in a statement on Saturday said that the projects are to improve transportation infrastructure and restore the nation’s road network as part of implementation of the Federal Government’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan.
4. The Cross River State Police Command has launched Operation Puff Adder in Calabar, the State capital.
Launching the operation, the State Commissioner of Police, Austin Agbonlahor said that the launch was in line with the Inspector General of Police’s directives that the operation be launch in the state.
5. The Kano State Government says it has concluded arrangements to conduct mass wedding for 1,500 prospective couples across the 44 local government areas of the state.
Mr Abba Anwar, the Chief Press Secretary to Governor Abdullahi Ganduje of Kano State said the couples passed through different stages of screening before they got to the final wedding stage.
6. The Action Democratic Party (ADP) has expelled its former National Secretary, James Okoroma, and 16 other executive members
According to the National Secretary of the party, Steve Uwajie, the affected officers and members were found guilty of causing division in the party.
7. The All Progressives Congress (APC) may have adopted Idris Wase (Plateau) to emerge the Deputy Speaker of the 9th House of Representatives.
This hint was dropped by Hon. Abdulmumin Jibrin (Kano), who is the Director-General (DG) of the Femi Gbajabiamila campaign council.
8. The Police Command in Cross River State have paraded 19 suspected criminals who were allegedly involved in crimes such as attempted murder, armed robbery, kidnapping and cultism.
Parading the suspects, the Command’s Public Relations Officer (PPRO), Ms Irene Ugbo said that the suspected cultists were arrested while trying to undergo an initiation into Skylo secret cult group at the Hawkins cemetery in Calabar south LGA of the state around 12: pm on April 27.
9. The Catholic Archbishop of Abuja, John Cardinal Onaiyekan, has said that he would not hesitate to resign if he were president of a country whose citizens are anxious of migration.
According to him, it is a sign that leaders have failed ‘If you live in a nation where your young people are telling you it is better living elsewhere”
10. A couple, Chinonso and Oluebube Anyawu, has allegedly sold their three-day-old son for N300,000.
Reports said the couple had three daughters before they got the male child.
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