Happy morning! The summary from Nigerian Newspapers for today is as follows:
1. Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State has been contacted by President Muhammadu Buhari, who has pledged the Federal government’s full assistance in providing him and the Benue people with the resources they need to look into the most recent herder-farmer killings.
2. Former general T.Y. Danjuma has once more urged Nigerians to use force to thwart terrorists and criminals. Danjuma claimed that either Nigeria is under siege or the Armed Forces are hesitant to defend the nation in his well-wishes speech at the presentation of staff of office to the 25th Aku-Uka of Wukari in Taraba State on Saturday.
3. The United Arab Emirates (UAE) has criticised a visa restriction on Nigerians wishing to travel to Dubai for the nth time. A notice conveying the prohibition was sent to the nation’s business associates in Nigeria, including travel agencies.
4. Between May 29, 2015, and October 15, 2022, non-state actors claimed the lives of no less than 53,418 Nigerians. Conflict between farmers and herders, battles between religious movements, and terrorist and bandit attacks were the main causes of deaths. The Nigerian Security Tracker, a project of the American Council on Foreign Relations, provided the information on Nigerians slain from the start of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
5. The Academic Staff Union of Universities has once more appealed the National Industrial Court of Nigeria’s ruling ordering the professors on strike to report back to work. Additionally, it was learned that the court had not yet set a date for the lawsuit’s formal hearing.
6. Following the death of a suspect allegedly connected to the attack on the convoy carrying Apostle Johnson Suleman, general overseer of Omega Fire Ministry, the state commissioner of police, AIG Abutu Yaro, has removed CSP Ayodele Suleiman as the divisional police officer of Auchi Division in Edo State.
7. In the Bukkuyum and Anka Local Government Areas of the state, the Zamfara State Police Command has freed 27 victims who were taken hostage by a group in the villages of Akawa, Gwashi, Tungar Rogo, and Anka and brought to the bandits’ camps at Gando/Bagega and Sunke forests. The development, according to SP Mohammed Shehu, the command’s spokesperson, came after the command was informed that a group of terrorists had invaded various villages in the local governments of Anka and Bukkuyum and kidnapped an undetermined number of people.
8. The country’s ethnic youth leaders have accused some senators who are close to some governors in the All Progressives Congress (APC) of hatching a scheme to have Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the INEC chairman, removed before the general elections in 2023.
9. President Muhammadu Buhari declared yesterday that the Pinnacle Oil and Gas FZE Terminal in Lekki, Lagos, had reduced costs, improved the delivery of petroleum products to many sections of the nation, and eased traffic in the Apapa region of the state as a result of the facility’s operations.
10. Reiterating his five-point platform yesterday and pledging his commitment to the nation’s development was PDP presidential candidate Atiku Abubakar. This was said by him as he spoke to party members and supporters at a Benin campaign event held at the Samuel Ogbemudia Stadium.
