Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. The UN Deputy Secretary-General, Amina Mohammed, has announced that there are 37 career openings for young Nigerians in the world body.
Mohammed at a Cultural Night organised by Nigerians working at the United Nations Systems, said the openings are available via the Junior Professional Officers’ Programme, including internship for young graduates.
2. The candidate of the Labour Party (LP) for the 2015 senatorial district election in the central senatorial district of Cross River State, Ntufam Sandy Onor, has again returned to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Ntufam Onor who was a former Commissioner in the state had earlier defected from PDP to LP and contested the central senatorial election in 2015.
3. The Nigerian Law School on Saturday released the summary of the final examination results conducted in August.
Chinedu Ukekwe, Head of Information and Protocol of the Nigerian Law School, in a statement said 1,272 candidates failed out of a total of 5,891 that participated in the examinations.
4. The Federal High Court in Abuja has ordered the Central Bank of Nigeria and the 19 commercial banks in the country to freeze any account without Bank Verification Number.
It also ordered them to disclose all accounts in their custody and the balances in such accounts, their owners and their proceeds in their affidavit of compliance deposed to by their Chief Compliance Officer.
5. President Muhammadu Buhari says his government has degraded the Boko Haram insurgents to the point that even “the opposition party” recognised that there was a considerable improvement of security in the North-East since he assumed power.
Buhari spoke at a bilateral meeting with Prime Minister Shahid Khakan Abbasi of Pakistan, on the sidelines of the ninth D-8 summit in Istanbul.
6. The National Chairman of the People for Democratic Change, Mudi Waziri, has urged the Indigenous People of Biafra to form a political party or join existing ones to pursue their cause.
Waziri, who spoke through the Anambra State Chairman of the party, Mr. Isaac Onuka, said agitations on contentious issues in the polity were normal as key ingredients of participatory democracy.
7. A faction of the Oodua People Congress, otherwise known as New Era Oodua Peoples Congress, has rejected the conferment of the Are Ona Kakanfo title on Gani Adams by the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Adeyemi
The group said the announcement of Gani as the next generalissimo of Yorubaland has relegated the importance of the title.
8. The Ondo State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has asked Goodluck Jonathan, former Nigerian President to keep quite and beg God and Nigerians for forgiveness.
Spokesman for the party, Abayomi Adesanya, said the former president was yet to recover from the shock of his defeat in the 2015 election.
9. A Director in the Kogi State civil service, Mr Edward Soje has allegedly committed suicide by hanging himself on a tree in Lokoja, the state capital .
The 54-year-old civil servant decided to take his life barely 10 days after his wife of 17 years gave birth to a set of male triplets in a private hospital in Abuja.
10. The Ekiti State House of Assembly has made U-turn on the former Ekiti State Governor, Chief Segun Oni, saying it was not probing him.
The Assembly added that the query about Oni, submitted by its Public Accounts Committee as part of the 2015 report by the state’s Auditor-General, had been quashed for lacking substantial evidence on misuse of public funds.
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