Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Thursday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State has unveiled his preferred successor, but it is not Edward Onoja, his strong ally, who served as Chief of Staff and became Deputy Governor after the impeachment of Simon Achuba in 2019. Bello unveiled the state’s Auditor-General Ahmed Usman-Ododo, as his preferred successor. 2. The...
World Bank lists challenges for Nigeria’s in-coming govt
Against the backdrop of the imminent assumption of office, the World Bank Group, WBG, has given a long list of challenges that need to be addressed in the immediate term by the new leadership of the Federal Government. The WBG President, David Malpass, in a press briefing at the ongoing Spring Meetings of the Bretton Woods institutions in Washington D.C.,...
Nine Years After: Hope dims for 96 Chibok girls
This day, April 14, makes it nine years since the abduction of school girls from Chibok, a hitherto unknown rural town in Borno State, but now a global name. As the world marks the 9th year anniversary of the Chibok girls’ abduction, 96 of the 276 abducted girls remain unaccounted for. The update is courtesy of #Bringbackourgirls, the global campaign that...
Tinubu to tribunal: petitions by Atiku, PDP not competent
President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged the Presidential Election Petition Court (PEPC) to dismiss the suit filed against him by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and its candidate, Atiku Abubakar, for being grossly deficient. Tinubu faulted the competence of the petition challenging his election, describing it as not only frivolous, but an abuse of the court process. He argued that the...
Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Thursday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. The first female democratically elected Deputy Governor in Nigeria, Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, has raised an alarm that her life is under threat over the election of former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as the President-Elect. She said she is preparing her relocation from the country as she...
Presidential Poll: Why I defeated you — Tinubu replies Obi
The President-elect, Bola Tinubu, has challenged the competence of a petition the Labour Party, LP, and its candidate, Peter Obi, filed to nullify his election. Tinubu, in a preliminary objection he filed alongside his Vice-President-elect, Senator Kashim Shettima, maintained that Obi was bereft of the locus standing to file a petition to challenge his election victory. He argued that Obi was...
May 29: Six things Tinubu should do to reunite divided Nigeria
The incoming Bola Tinubu administration faces an uphill task of reuniting a divided Nigeria. There is a general belief among the populace that Nigeria has never been so divided than it is under the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari. In 2015 when President Buhari took over from then President Goodluck Jonathan, he made the infamous 97 percent statement, declaring that his...
CBN forex ban: Nigerians imported N18tn cooking oil, meat, others in seven years – Report
•Importers ordered agric, animal products, others from Asian, EU, African countries •Firms sourced dollars at parallel market over CBN forex ban on 41 items Nigerians imported not less than nine items worth N18.12tn from the forex ban list of the Central Bank of Nigeria between 2016 and 2022, findings by The PUNCH have shown. The CBN had categorised about 41 import items as not...
Kaduna: 125 killed, 60 kidnapped in 82 days
•Terrorists rustle cattle •NAF jets kill fleeing bandits AGAIN, terrorists killed nine persons, including four local vigilantes at the Sabon Layi Community, Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, yesterday. This brings to 125 the number of people killed by bandits in the state since January, according to Vanguard’s checks. Also, 60 people have been abducted. Locals said they saw the terrorists...
Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Wednesday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. A Coalition of Arewa Elders has warned political actors, particularly the presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi to desist from ‘unguarded post election political utterances’. The elders were of the opinion that such utterances are capable of triggering a repeat of the 1966 coup that led to...
