Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. President Muhammadu Buhari on Saturday in his Christmas message to Nigerians assured that better days lie ahead of the nation despite its current challenges.
Buhari said he was deeply convinced that better days are ahead for the nation as it makes progress on all the major fronts where it had set its energies to surmount the challenges.
2. The Special Presidential Investigation Panel, for Recovery of Public Property has given the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu, a former Speaker of the House of Reps, Dimeji Bankole, and former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Aloysius Katsina-Alu, 21 days to vacate their residences. The Chief Okoi Obono-Obla-led panel issued the quit notice on Thursday to the three politicians, as well as former Deputy Speaker and current Senator, Usman Bayero Nafada.
3. The All Progressives Congress (APC), has appealed to Nigerians to exercise patience with the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration as it works tirelessly to improve the fuel scarcity situation currently rocking the nation. APC National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, said the ruling party acknowledges the difficulties Nigerians were experiencing as a result of the fuel scarcity across the country; especially at this Yuletide period.
4. The Department of Petroleum Resources, DPR, has sealed off about twenty filling stations within one week in Port Hacourt, the Rivers State capital. The affected private filling stations were accused of various offences, including selling products above the government approved pump price, under delivery of products and diversion of products.
5. Staff of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), have cancelled their Christmas holiday, in a bid to ensure the lingering fuel scarcity is curtailed. President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on New Media, Bashir Ahmad, said the NNPC staff were working round the clock to see the biting fuel scarcity is solved.
6. No fewer than 1,500 members of the Peoples Democratic Party in Oshodi-Isolo Local Government Area of Lagos State weekend defected to the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State. The new defectors were led by a PDP chieftain in the Local Government, Mr. Fola Mosaku, and four councillorship candidates of the party in the July 22 council polls in the state.
7. Buba Marwa, former Military Administrator of Lagos State, has said nobody can defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in the 2019 presidential election. Marwa, a Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, APC, said from political calculations, no formidable candidate can withstand Buhari during the upcoming election.
8. The Lekki Concession Company Limited (LCC) has announced that from January 1, 2018, motorists using the toll gate at the Victoria Island end of the Lekki-Epe expressway and Lekki-Ikoyi link bridge would have to pay more. LCC’s Managing Director, Mohammed Hassan, made it known that the current charges were no longer sustainable as a result of the “current business realities and increasing cost of operation”.
9. The General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Worldwide, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has declared that 2018 would be better than the outgoing 2017 for the country. Adeboye urged Nigerians not to lose hope in future of Nigeria despite hardship faced.
10. The President General of the Ohanaeze Ndigbo, Chief John Nwodo, has accused the Federal Government of deliberately using the fuel scarcity to impoverish Igbo people.
Nwodo advised Igbo indigenes to use the Christmas period to pray for peace in the country and not to “forget to bring back their wealth to their homeland.”
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