Hello and good morning! Today’s Nigerian newspapers summary is as follows:
1. Lamido Sanusi, the ousted Emir of Kano and vice chairman of the Kaduna Investment Promotion Agency, expressed sympathy for the future president who will follow President Muhammadu Buhari due to the country’s impoverished economy yesterday. He claimed that Nigeria’s economy is inextricably linked to the oil and gas sector, and that the withdrawal of subsidies is rapidly slowing the country’s growth.
2. Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike and three of his southern counterparts have departed on a foreign tour for the sixth time, this time to Spain. Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, Dr Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia, and Samuel Ortom of Benue are the other governors on the recent trip, all of whom are members of the Peoples Democratic Party.
3. On Friday, a Kwara State High Court in Ilorin sentenced Bashiru Azeez, 31, a student at the Kwara State Polytechnic in Ilorin, to six months in prison for $9,891 fraud. Justice Adebayo Yusuf handed down the sentence while hearing a fraud case brought by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission’s Ilorin Zonal Command.
4. Abdulafeez Shorinmade, a suspected drug user, was detained in Iwo by men from the Osun State Police Command after stabbing to death one Rofiyat Rasaki in the town’s Kajola neighbourhood. Abdulafeez, who was claimed to have fled the scene after committing the murder, was also accused of stabbing and injuring an 18-year-old Sawiyu Nasrup in Iwo’s Soba Area.
5. In the early hours of Saturday, terrorists killed two villagers in Gidan Diyam and kidnapped two others in Dayi community, Malumfashi Local Government Area, Katsina State. Ejike Hyginus, widely known as ‘Yellow,’ a building material trader, and Mustapha, a health worker linked to the Dayi Primary Healthcare, were also kidnapped.
6. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, has promised to tackle bandits if elected in 2023. Tinubu stated his confidence in leading the country during the 7th edition of the Kaduna Economic and Investment Summit.
7. Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar claimed yesterday that the North does not require candidates from the South in the 2023 elections. This was revealed by Atiku during an Interactive Session With Arewa Joint Committee conducted on Saturday in Kaduna State, in response to a question put to him by the spokesman of the Northern Elders Forum, NEF, Hakeem Baba-Ahmed.
8. Anxiety and apprehension remain in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) after two crucial meetings of the party’s major stakeholders failed to address several teething problems impeding the start of its presidential campaign more than two weeks after the ban on political campaigns was lifted.
9. Natives and residents of Akpawfu community in Nkanu East Local Government Area of Enugu State were thrown into great panic and tension yesterday after troops allegedly raided secret camps of suspected Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) members and armed bandits in the community.
10. In various parts of Lagos, a man died during intercourse, while another committed suicide. It was learned that a male guest at an inn in the Adeniji Adele area of the state had lodged with a lady for a brief period of time. According to a hotel employee, the couple ordered beverages and locked themselves inside the room making love, but after an hour, the lady stepped out and pretended to go outside to buy something.
