Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. Nigerians yesterday poured in glowing tributes to Acting President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, who clocked sixty years.
Among the well wishers were President Muhammadu Buhari, Senate President, Bukola Saraka, House of Reps Speaker, Yakubu Dogara, governors, ministers and other Nigerians, who all described the Acting President as a sincere and hard-working Nigerian.
2. The Movement for the Actualisation of the Sovereign State of Biafra has stated that the late ex-Biafran warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu would have put up another war against Nigeria should he be alive to witness the continued detention of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu.
MASSOB leader, Uchenna Madu, slammed the Ohanaeze Ndigbo for not finding time to visit Kanu in prison.
3. The death has been announced of Veteran Nollywood actor, Prince James Uche.
Uche, who has been down with renal disease passed away on Wednesday. Until his demise, he was billed to travel to India this Friday to commence treatment for his protracted illness.
4. No fewer than five persons have been feared killed in an inter-ethnic clash that ensued between Hausa and Yorubas in the Sabo area of Ile-Ife, Osun State.
Property worth millions of Naira have been destroyed while several others reportedly sustained various degrees of injuries.
5. The Peace Corps of Nigeria (PCN), has instituted a N2bn suit against the Attorney–General of the Federation (AGF), Inspector –General of Police (IGP) and the Director-General of the Department of State Service (DSS), over the arrest and detention of its National Commandant, Amb (Dr.) Dickson Akoh and 49 others.
In the legal action filed by a former Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Mr. Kanu Agabi (SAN), the plaintiffs are demanding a sum of N2bn as compensation for the embarrassment caused the Peace Corps of Nigeria and its Incorporated Trustees by the arrest and detention of its personnel, by the security operatives.
6. Nigeria’s Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udo Udoma, has promised that the current government was working hard to get Nigeria out of economic recession before the end of this year.
According to Udoma, to achieve the government’s aim, there was the need for the National Assembly to pass the 2017 budget on time so that the implementation could start in earnest.
7. The Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday admitted the first set of exhibits in the trial of a former Governor of Abia State, Orji Kalu, who was accused of N2.9bn fraud.
The trial judge, Justice Mohammed Idris, admitted as the first exhibit a letter dated October 30, 2006 written by Fidelity Bank Plc in response to an enquiry by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, alongside a bundle of attachments, which were essentially customers’ information in respect of 23 bank drafts issued by the defunct Manny Bank, Umuahia branch.
8. Operatives of the Nigerian Customs Service, NCS, on Wednesday allegedly killed a rice smuggler along Siun-Sagamu in Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital.
The deceased smuggler was said to be running away from Customs operatives, who chased him to a location around Kobape area of the road where he was reportedly shot dead.
9. The end to the ongoing crisis rocking the People Democrartic Party might not be in sight yet as the Senate Caucus of the party on Wednesday in Abuja, turned down an invitation extended to it by a factional National Chairman of the party, Ali Modu Sheriff.
The caucus opted for wider consultation in resolving the leadership tussle in the party.
10. The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has claimed that the British government was afraid of success it was recording towards the restoration of Biafra Republic.
According to the secessionist group, it was for that reason that the former Nigerian colonial masters decided to kick against the report of the Amnesty International on the killing of many Biafra agitators and the recent verdict of the Federal High Court, Abuja which ruled that IPOB was not an unlawful organization.
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