Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. Former Chief of Defence Staff, Alex Sabundu Badeh, is dead.
Badeh, who rose to the rank of Air Chief Marshal in the Nigerian military, was shot dead on Tuesday, while returning from his farm along Abuja-Keffi Road.
2. The Court of Appeal sitting in Ibadan on Tuesday sacked Buruji Kashamu as the Ogun State governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
The development means Oladipupo Adebutu is the governorship candidate of the PDP in Ogun State.
3. President Muhammadu Buhari has declined assent to National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, Amendment Bill 2018.
The Preside wrote the Senate on Tuesday to decline assent to the bill passed by the National Assembly and forwarded to him because he would require a more appropriate approach for amendment.
4. Atiku Abubakar, the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Tuesday said killings by herdsmen would continue in the country, unless President Muhammadu Buhari is voted out of office in 2019.
Atiku said this while reacting to Amnesty International’s report on herdsmen/farmers’ clashes, which indicted the Federal Government for failing to stop the killing of 3,641 Nigerians by herdsmen in the last three years.
5. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has raised the alarm over a fresh plot to use the Police and the Department of State Services (DSS), to forcefully remove Senate President, Senator Bukola Saraki, from office.
In a statement issued by Kola Ologbondiyan, its National Publicity Secretary, in Abuja, the party also condemned in totality, “the continued clampdown, harassment, intimidation, arrest and detention” of members of the Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led administration.
6. The Presidential Candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 general election, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus have enjoined the people of the North east region to join the rest of the country in the mission to rescue the country.
Atiku said that the situation in the country since the All Progressives Congress, APC, came to power calls for all hands to be on deck to rescue our democracy.
7. The Nigerian Army on Tuesday pulled out two Major Generals and three Brigradier Generals out of service at the Nigerian Army Medical Corps in Lagos.
The generals that were pulled out included: Maj.-Gen. Abimbola, Amusu, Maj.-Gen. Patrick Falola, Brig.-Gen. Folorunsho Jegede, Brig.-Gen. O. Akinyode and Brig.-Gen. M. Robbinson.
8. Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), Lagos State University (LASU) Chapter, has demanded the payment of accumulated Earned Academic Allowance (EAA) unpaid since 2009 to lecturers in the institution.
The union’s demand was made known in its bulletin obtained by newsmen on Tuesday in Lagos.
9. A Fulani socio-cultural association, Miyetti Allah Kautal-Hore has called on the Federal and State governments to retrieve lands gazetted as grazing reserves from farmers and hand them over to herdsmen.
10. In sport, Manchester United have announced the sack of manager, Jose Mourinho.
The Portuguese was dismissed on Tuesday after a series of poor results at Old Trafford.
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