Happy morning! The summary from Nigerian Newspapers for today is as follows:
1. On Thursday, three police officers who were on escort duty in Rivers State’s Obio/Akpor Local Government Area were shot and killed. The Managing Director of an oil and gas business in Port Harcourt, the State’s capital, was purportedly kidnapped by the gunmen after they had killed the cops.
2. The Labour Party (LP), Ogun State Chapter, yesterday asked the party’s Presidential Campaign Council be immediately dissolved due to claimed dominance by party leaders of Southern descent. The party also adopted a resolution of disapproval for Julius Abure, the LP National Chairman.
3. Senator Aishatu Dahiru Binani has been named as the All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate for governor of Adamawa State by an appeals court located in Yola, the capital of the state. The ruling of a Federal High Court, which invalidated the governorship primary and announced that the APC will not field a candidate for the governorship race in 2023, was overturned by the court presided over by Justice Tani Yusuf Hassan.
4. On Thursday, former president Olusegun Obasanjo urged young people in Nigeria to take part in initiatives that would alter perceptions of Africa. According to Obasanjo, such involvement would also ensure a better future for the younger generation because it would prevent those who are ruining their future from succeeding.
5. On Thursday, a Federal High Court in Lagos blocked the federal government’s plans to launch Nigeria Air as a national airline. The Federal Government and domestic airlines were reordered by Justice Ambrose Lewis-Allagoa to maintain the status quo in their lawsuit pertaining to the creation of the airline.
6. Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, urged South-East voters to support him Tuesday by promising to fix the problems that are causing unrest in the region. In order to officially launch the APC campaign in the State, he addressed the crowd at Pa Ngele Oruta Township Stadium in Abakaliki, Ebonyi State.
7. Yesterday, the Federal Government of Nigeria declared that history would be reinstated as a stand-alone subject in the country’s basic education system, 13 years after it was eliminated. Additionally, 3,700 teachers have been chosen for the first round of training for improved subject teaching.
8. After Osun State Governor Adegboyega Oyetola named 30 new permanent secretaries on Thursday, the incoming governor of the state, Ademola Adeleke, promised to fire the appointed civil servants yesterday.
9. According to sources, Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, was the target of $28 million in blackmail by Anambra State Governor Prof. Charles Soludo. Mr. Christian Aburime, the governor’s press secretary, revealed this in a statement and called the story a hatchet job by those looking to divert attention from the governor.
10. A 10-year-old Togolese girl was killed by armed robbers in Ota, in the Ado-Odo/Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State, for witnessing their operation. Around 7 am on Thursday, when the event took place, a friend of the victim’s mother reportedly sent her to her home on Kilani Street in the Iyana Iyesi neighbourhood of Ota to obtain charcoal.
