Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. Boko Haram on Wednesday returned 105 of the Dapchi schoolgirls kidnapped from the Government Girls’ School in Yobe.
Sadly, five of them were confirmed dead while one was held back for refusing to denounce Christianity.
2. Femi Fani-Kayode, former Minister of Aviation, Ayo Fayose, Ekiti State Governor, Reno Omokri, former Media Aide to Goodluck Jonathan, the Peoples Democratic Party and some Nigerians have described the abduction and release of the Dapchi girls as a script well written by the Buhari-led government.
While Fani-Kayode believed it was a scam, the PDP said the Buhari-led APC was only trying to play on the intelligence of over 200 million people with its hide and seek game.
3. Bandits believed to be loyal to an assassinated gang leader, Buharin Daji, Tuesday night killed eleven Nigerian soldiers in Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
Report says the well-armed bandits stormed a military post at Doka, an area between Funtua and Birnin Gwari and killed the soldiers and fled into thin air.
4. The National Assembly on Wednesday announced that the 2018 appropriation bill will be laid before both chambers on April 19 and will be passed on April 24.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, who made this disclosure on Wednesday, added that the harmonised date was decided by both chambers of the National Assembly.
5. The Reformed Niger Delta Avengers and 10 other militant groups have threatened to attack oil installations in the Niger Delta in four weeks.
They are demanding that the Special Adviser on Niger Delta to President Muhammadu Buhari and Coordinator of the Presidential Amnesty Programme, Brig.-Gen. Paul Tarelah Boroh (rtd) should be reinstated.
6. The Nigerian Intervention Movement, NIM, also called the Third Force coalition said it would require a huge war to remove the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, from power.
The Movement, however, said its priority was to make an impact in the coming election.
7. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Kogi State, on Wednesday announced dates for the commencement of the recall process of the embattled lawmaker, Senator Dino Melaye.
The Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the state, Prof. James Apam, disclosed that following the appellate court ruling that INEC can commence the recall process, the commission has fixed the last Saturday of April as the verification date.
8. The Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, has revealed what Senators of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the National Working Committee (NWC) of the party discussed at a meeting held on Wednesday.
Addressing journalists shortly after the meeting, Lawan said the meeting bordered on ‘happenings’ within the party.
9. Operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) have arrested a retired military officer for an alleged attempt to create a political crisis in Kano State.
The retired Captain of the Nigerian Army, whose name is yet to be released, had confessed that he was allegedly conscripted by a former Commissioner of Water Resources in the State, Dr Adanu Yunusa Dangwani to make Kano ungovernable.
10. The Federal Government, on Wednesday, asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to freeze undeclared assets that were traced to the Deputy Senate President, Mr. Ike Ekweremadu.
FG through an ex-parte motion marked FHC/ABJ/CS/284/2018, and filed on its behalf by Lagos based lawyer, Mr. Festus Keyamo, SAN, named nine of the properties in Nigeria, two in London, eight in Dubai and three others in the United States of America.
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