Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Monday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Prof Onje Gye-Wado, a former deputy governor of Nasarawa State, who was abducted on Thursday night, has been released after a ransom of N4 million. The professor of law was kidnapped from his country home in Rinza, near Wamba, headquarters of Wamba Local Government Area of the state. 2. Festus Keyamo,...
FULL LIST: UK stops recruiting healthcare workers from Nigeria, 53 others
The United Kingdom has placed Nigeria and 53 other countries on the red list of countries that should not be actively targeted for recruitment by health and social care employers. The announcement was contained in the revised code of practice for the international recruitment of health and social care personnel in England. It is recommended that employers, recruitment organisations, agencies, collaborations,...
Supplementary Polls: Opposition parties rally to seize control of NASS
*Eye 2 guber, 5 senatorial, 31 Reps and 57 state assembly seats Five days before the April 15 supplementary polls, opposition parties and candidates, weekend, intensified moves to get the upper hand in the elections and whittle down the strength of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, in the 10th National Assembly. There will be supplementary balloting for two governorship, five...
15 killed, burnt beyond recognition in Enugu highway crash
All the 15 occupants of a Toyota bus were killed and burnt beyond recognition on Saturday when the bus had a head-on collision with a Mercedes truck on the Port Harcourt-Enugu Highway. Spokesman of the FRSC, Assistant Corps Marshal Bisi Kazeem confirmed the accident in a statement he issued on Sunday in Abuja. Kazeem stated that the accident took place at...
Ajibola’s death, end of an era – Abiodun
……commiserates with Buhari, Obasanjo, NBA, Ajibola family over world jurist’s death Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, has commiserated with President Muhammadu Buhari, the nation’s judiciary and the family of former Justice at the International Court of Justice, The Hague, on the death of the former Attorney General and Minister for Justice, Prince Bola Ajibola, who passed on in the early...
Igbos no longer wanted in Nigeria, being treated unfairly – IPOB
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, on Sunday said recent events in Nigeria have shown that Igbos are not wanted in the country. IPOB’s spokesman, Emma Powerful, said the treatment being meted out to Igbos is unfair. Powerful lamented that security agencies allowed Shi’ites to protest peacefully but attacked its members in Aba, Abia State. Recently, several IPOB sympathizers protesting for Nnamdi...
Naira lost 10% value in 2022, says World Bank
The naira lost 10.2 per cent of its value in 2022, according to the World Bank. This came as rising food and fuel prices were responsible for high inflation in the country in 2022. The global bank revealed this in its latest Africa’s Pulse report for April 2023. It explained that the worst-performing currency in the Sub-Saharan African region was the...
Buhari bids farewell to Angola, UAE Ambassadors
President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday hosted two outgoing Ambassadors in farewell audiences at State House, Abuja. The affected Ambassadors, who had kind words to say about their tour of duty in Nigeria, include Eustaquio Januario Quibato of Republic of Angola and Dr Fahad Obaid Al Taffaq of United Arab Emirates (UAE). The outgoing Angolan ambassador thanked the president for the “wise...
Gunmen kidnap Nasarawa ex-deputy Governor, Onje
A former deputy governor of Nasarawa State, Prof Onje Gye-wado has been kidnapped by daredevil gunmen. DAILY POST gathered that Onje Gye-wado, a one-time deputy Governor of the State who served during Abdullahi Adamu administration, was abducted in the early hours of Friday when the assailants invaded Gwagi village in Wamba Local Government Area of the state. The Nasarawa State Police...
I’m too old to keep quiet, ethnic division must end – Obasanjo
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo said the incoming administration must explore all avenues at ending ethnic division that emanated from the 2023 general elections. Obasanjo stated this while speaking at a conference, themed, “From Elections to Governance and Performance,” organised by Nextier and the Ibadan School of Governance and Public Policy in Abuja on Thursday. The former president noted that with challenges...
