Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. Two female suicide bombers were on Monday intercepted when they tried to gain access into Dalori 2 Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp.
Two other female suicide bombers also detonated their explosives at the adjoining Dalori kofa village at about 8.10 pm, where they killed 16 people.
2. All seems not to be well with Senator Dino Melaye of Kogi West as a total of 188, 580, electorates from his constituency have signed the recall register.
Speaking at the All progressives Congress State Secretariat in Lokoja, the returning officer for the recall of the serving senator, Adamu Yusuf explained that out of 360,098 of the total registered voters of the seven western senatorial districts, comprising Yagba, Mopa Muro, Kabba Bunu, Yagba East, Koton Karfe, Lokoja and Ijumu, 188, 588, signed the recall register constituting 52.3% of the voters in the senatorial district.
3. Justice Gabriel Kolawole of the Federal High Court, Abuja has ordered for the remand of former Benue State governor, Gabriel Suswam.
Suswam and three defendants were arraigned on 32 counts of diversion of a total sum of N9.79bn meant for Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme.
4. Five persons have been feared killed in a fresh cult violence that broke out in Ikwerre Local Government Area of Rivers State.
The two rival cult groups clashed at Egbeda community in the area, killing a young man who was identified as Ben and four others.
5. The Igbo socio-political organisation, Ohanaeze Ndigbo has maintained that Arewa youths are determined to drag Nigeria into another civil war.
Ohanaeze, while reacting to a letter written to Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo by a coalition of Northern youths, said northern youths had no right to speak for the Igbos.
6. Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo has postponed his meeting with traditional rulers from the Northern part of Nigeria, which was initially scheduled to hold Monday.
The meeting will now hold at 3pm on Tuesday, according to Osinbajo’s spokesman, Laolu Akande.
7. Suspected Fulani herdsmen have attacked some police men attached to the farm of a former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Olu Falae in Kajola Village, in the Akure North Local Government Area of Ondo State.
It was gathered that on getting to the farm on Thursday, some herdsmen, numbering about 10, allegedly opened fire on the policemen but were overpowered by the gallant policemen.
8. Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of making utterances that emboldened a section of the country to make hate speeches against the Igbo.
Fayose said Buhari got it wrong by his statement after inauguration that his government might not favour any section of the country that voted against him during the 2015 presidential poll.
9. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested the Director of Administration at the Police Service Commission, Emmanuel Ibe, for an alleged N600m fraud.
The PSC is in charge of recruitment, promotion and discipline in the Nigeria Police Force.
10. Revered lawyer and elder statesman, Prof. Ben Nwabueze (SAN), has advised acting President Yemi Osinbajo to appeal to his principal, President Muhammadu Buhari, to embrace fiscal federalism and regionalism.
According to him, Nigeria could not maximise its potential under the current structure of 36 states and an all-powerful Federal Government.
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