Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has fixed the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states for November 2. Festus Okoye, chairman of INEC’s information and voters education committee, announced this on Tuesday evening.
2. The Kaduna State police command, says twenty-one people were killed in Banono and Anguwan Aku villages in Kajuru Local Government Area of the state on Monday by armed bandits. DSP Yakubu A. Sabo, spokesperson of the command, in a statement, explained that the attackers also injured three persons and burnt down ten houses.
3. Troops in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, Tuesday engaged in a fierce battle with suspected Boko Haram terrorists who attempted to infiltrate the state capital late Tuesday evening. Report claims that the suspected terrorists, who came in their numbers, attempted to sneak into the metropolis through Maisandari axis, a community located at the eastern fringes of the city, but were stopped by the troops.
4. Governorship Election Petition Tribunal in Kano, on Tuesday, granted permission to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to inspect all election materials used by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) during the gubernatorial election in the State. The gubernatorial candidate of the PDP, Alhaji Abba Kabiru-Yusuf is challenging the declaration of Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje of the All Progressives Congress (APC) as winner of the March 23 supplementary election in Kano State.
5. Buhari Media Organisation, BMO, has urged the Department of State Security, DSS, to investigate the former Vice President Abubakar Atiku’s unholy romance with foreign bodies especially the United States of America, in pursuit of his allegedly stolen mandate to succeed incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari. BMO also accused Atiku of seeking to destabilise the country in a bid to realise his failed ambition to be President.
6. The Consul-General of Nigeria in Johannesburg, South Africa, Mr Godwin Adama, has condemned the killing of three Nigerians between April 6 and April 9 at different locations in the country. Adama in a statement on Tuesday in Abuja said that the killings were not xenophobic-related. He blamed killings on crime and cultism.
7. The police in Rivers State on Tuesday said that cultists and thugs that had lost patronage from politicians were behind the upsurge in killings in the State. DSP Nnamdi Omoni, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer (PPRO), made the disclosure. He stated that the killings were not strange to the police as politicians who had armed the cultists and thugs had now turned their backs on them.
8. The National/State House of Assembly Election Petition Tribunal for Zamfara on Tuesday granted motion ex-parte seeking its leave to serve petitions by way of substituted means on respondents. Justice Ajoke Adepoju, who led the three-man panel granted the motion ex-parte on the ground that personal service by the bailiff of the tribunal has proved abortive, as told by the petitioner’s Counsel, Mr Zakawanu Garuba.
9. President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Dubai, stated that his government has succeeded in rescuing Nigeria from Boko Haram insurgents. He spoke at a town hall meeting with members of the Nigerian community in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Buhari, who also pledged more government investments in research, technology as well educational institutions, promised that the prudent economic management, diversification of production and revenue bases of the administration in the last four years will be sustained.
10. President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Abuja on Tuesday night, a day ahead of schedule due to the killings across the country. Report claims that the President was initially scheduled to return to Abuja from Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on Wednesday at about 1.30a.m. However, the presidential aircraft carrying the president, his aides and some members of his entourage landed at the presidential wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport Abuja at about 10.45p.m on Tuesday.
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