Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers:
1.The Ondo State governor-elect, Rotimi Akeredolu, yesterday told journalists in Abuja that he did not thank the national leader of the party, Bola Tinubu in his acceptance speech on Sunday because he didn’t want to personalize his appreciation. He said it was a perfect decision to the thank President Muhammadu Buhari and the leader of the party, Chief John Oyegun.
2.Hundreds of Igbo youths, Tuesday took to the streets in protest of the ongoing probe of former Nigeria First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan. The youths, led by the coordinator, Concerned Igbo Youths, Comrade Victor Ezenagu, said the probe, which had culminated to the freezing of the former First Lady’s account, was calculated effort aimed at humiliating ex-President, Goodluck Jonathan. They took their protest to the Enugu office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, where they submitted a petition to the South-East zonal head of the commission, Mr. Johnson Babalola.
3. Report says the NCC has now put on hold its plan to increase tariff on data pending when necessary consultations are carried out with relevant agencies and stakeholders. This decision is in compliance with the Senate’s directive that the commission should stop its plan to increase tariff on data.
4. PDP Senators on Wednesday walked out of the chamber of the Senate after the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, refused to declare the seat of the senator representing Ondo South Senatorial district, Yela Omogunwa, vacant following his defection to the All Progressives Congress, APC. The Senator said he defected to the ruling party in order to work properly with the governor-elect of the state, Akeredolu.
5. The leadership of the National Association of Aircraft Pilots and Engineers, NAAPE, Wednesday, shut down Bristow Group over disparity among Nigerian employees and expatriates. President of the association, Comrade Isaac Balami said the group will continue the clampdown until the company does the needful by respecting the rights of Nigerian workers under the employ of the company. He said the company must stop seeing expatriates as more superior to Nigerians.
6. Report says Ericsson Nigeria, the local subsidiary of the global telecommunications solutions provider, has sacked about 160 permanent and outsourced workers in its Network Operating Centre. Report says they were disengaged on Sunday, December 4, 2016, and 55 full-time employees of the company were affected.
7 .The Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has said that he may likely run under the platform of another political platform in order to return retain his position as the State governor in 2018. He disclosed this on Wednesday during a meeting with members of the Suppliers’ Association of Nigeria, Ikere Ekiti chapter. He boasted that the APC will not win a local government during the election. 8 .A former Secretary of the Christian Association of Nigeria, Archbishop George Amu, has said God has revealed to him that Nigerian billionaire, businessman, Alhaji Aliko Dangote, will one day become the president of Nigeria. Amu said Dangote’s emergence will be similar to that of Donald Trump. He said as the President of America shocked the world, so will Dangote’s emergence as Nigeria’s President shock everyone.
9. For suspending him from the APC fold in Kaduna State, Senator Shehu Sani has verbally attacked Governor Nasir el-Rufai, saying he is a dubious progressive and a bogus representation of change. Shehu who said his suspension was useless, said El-Rufai is a bug, a lice and a parasite to the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. He said El- Rufai was a foul air to any serious concept of change.
10. The Lioness of Cameroon have said they will win the Saturday’s final of the African Women Nations Cup against the Super Falcons, saying they cannot afford to lose to Nigeria again in a final. According to Cameroon coach, Enow Ngachu, her side will give everything in the Saturday’s clash in order to secure the much desired victory.
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