Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. Yesterday, Uche Secondus, a former PDP chairman, accepted the position of adviser to Atiku Abubakar, the party’s presidential candidate. The former national chairman of the opposition party declared his willingness to cooperate with the former vice president, prompting outrage in the camp of Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike.
2. On Monday, the Federal Government (FG) rescinded its earlier order for vice chancellors to “to ensure that the striking members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) resume and commence lectures immediately.”
3. As the governorship election tribunal started its session yesterday morning, there was a strong security presence at the Osun State High Court. The Independence National Electoral Commission’s announcement of the July 16 governor election’s results is being contested by Governor Gboyega Oyetola (INEC).
4. The robbers threatened to kill the captives, including the newborn baby, if the family did not pay N50m ransom within two days after kidnapping three sisters in Kaduna, including a pregnant housewife who gave birth in captivity. On July 17, 2022, the three sisters were abducted while caring for their ailing mother at their family home in the Mando region of the State.
5. On Monday at 10:51am, the national grid lost all of its megawatts (MW) and went out. Days after electricity users claimed to have enjoyed a better supply, the development took place.
6. On Monday, a few retired military men defied an early-morning downpour to hold the third stage of their protest at the Ministry of Defense’s Abuja headquarters. The demonstrators bemoaned a number of things, including the non-payment of their Security Debarment Allowance.
7. To instruct its members on how to behave during the upcoming general elections in 2023, the Nigerian Army has developed booklets. This was announced by Major General Bello Alhaji Tsoho, the commandant of the Nigeria Army Institute of Science Education and Technology (NAISET), at the graduation of the institute’s third quarter courses in Ilorin.
8. On Monday, the Yoruba sociopolitical organisation Afenifere defended its choice to support Peter Obi, the Labour Party’s presidential candidate, in the 2023 elections. At a news conference in Lagos, the group’s head, Chief Ayo Adebanjo, revealed its stance.
9. Yahaya Bello, the governor of Kogi State, has ordered the closure of The New Jerusalem Deliverance Ministry in Okene because it reportedly defrauded its members by marketing “bulletproof water” and operating an unlicensed medical facility. According to reports, Peter Adeiza, the church’s pastor, has been running the facility since 2008.
10. John Ikechuwkwu Ewa, alias “John Lyon,” was paraded by the Bayelsa State Police Command on Monday. At the Police Officers’ Mess in Yenagoa, Ewa, who had earlier been detained in Abuja, was paraded alongside three other members of his abduction group.
