Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has stated that the first recession Nigeria experienced was in 1989, which according to him was the worst. Fashola said since nobody disappeared then, the country would surely survive the current economic hardship.
2. President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday assented to 8 new Bills, the presidency confirmed on Tuesday night.
Senator Ita Enang, who is the Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly Matters (Senate), stated this while speaking to State House correspondents at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
3. Prof. James Ayatse, has been named Tor Tiv the fifth. His emergence follows a hotly contested election held in Gboko, the traditional seat of the Tiv nation.
Ayatse is the former Vice Chancellor of Federal University of Agriculture, Makurdi and the immediate past Vice Chancellor of Federal University, Dutsinma in Kastina State.
4. The Federal Government of Nigeria has asserted that it did not create the hardship going on in the country.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made this affirmation, however, restated that the current government was committed to end the nationwide hardship.
5. The Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Buratai has disclosed that the Nigerian Army would be raising up cattle ranches in such a manner that in almost all the divisions, and all the brigades, cattle will be reared.
Buratai noted that in keeping up with modern cattle rearing tradition, he sent officers of the Army to Argentina to look at how cattle were reared.
6. The Federal Operations Unit, Ikeja, of the Nigeria Customs Service has intercepted 102 bags of plastic rice branded “Beat Tomato Rice’’ with no date of manufacture.
The Customs Area Controller of F.O.U. Comptroller Mohammed Haruna, made the disclosure in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Lagos.
7. Former Governor of Anambra State, Mr. Peter Obi, has said the economic recession in Nigeria would not end soon as promised by the Nigerian government.
Obi, however, insisted that there was hope, if the government changed the spending system.
8. The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), has announced that the three refineries in Port Harcourt, Warri and Kaduna, will all be in full operations by 2017.
The Group General Manager, Group Public Affairs Division, Mr. Ndu Ughamadu, noted that all the refineries will undergo comprehensive rehabilitation to achieve optimal capacity utilization.
9. The Independent National Electoral Commission has commenced investigation into a leaked audio tape allegedly involving the Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, and some officials of the commission.
Chairman of the Commission, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, has set up four-man committee to carry a comprehensive investigation on the conduct of the commission’s officials in the December 10, 2016 rerun elections in Rivers State.
10. At least 140 Nigerians, who were deported from Libya, arrived in the country on Tuesday through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The deportees, who arrived on board a Libyan Airline, were received by the Director-General of the National Emergency Management Agency, Sani Sidi, who was represented by the South-West Coordinator of the agency, Dr. Onimode Bamdele.
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