Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. Loyalists of former Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki in Ilorin, Thursday watched with anger the demolition of late Dr Olusola Saraki’s building popularly called ‘Ile Arugbo’ located close to the state civil service clinic. After the demolition, the operators of the bulldozer were chased away with stones while the policemen keeping watch in the area used teargas to restore order. The demolition which was ordered by the State government has since generated serious reactions.
2. The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), has denied that its train was attacked along the Abuja-Kaduna Train Service (AKTS), assuring passengers of their safety. Mr Fidet Okhiria, Managing Director of the corporation said that the news of the attack was not correct. According to him, a stone was thrown at the train by some boys, which affected only the window glass of coach SP4.
3. The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Comrade Adams Oshiohmole, has alleged that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) planted the idea of third term agenda by President Muhammadu Buhari in the sub-conscious of most Nigerians to further confuse the political space. While addressing State House correspondents after the end of a closed-door meeting with President Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, on Thursday, Oshiomhole said the idea of ‘third term’ was ‘born’ by a PDP former president who wanted to spend more than 8 years in office.
Read Also:
4. First bank and Fidelity bank have commenced the implementation of the reduced bank charges as instructed by the regulator, the Central Bank of Nigeria, with effect from January 2020. Meanwhile, some banks are yet to notify their customers of the reduction in the new charges, leading to serious concern by customers.
5. Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, has alleged that the British Government was the worst enemy of Nigeria and not those agitating for Biafra. Kanu alleged that the British government and some people in Aso Rock were supporting terrorism in Nigeria. In a live broadcast on Thursday, the IPOB leader claimed that the British see “evil in Nigeria happening, see Satan and Lucifer in Aso Rock and keep quiet because it is in the interest of their neocolonialism act of empowering the almajiris they manipulate.”
6. The mastermind of the foiled robbery of the First Bank in the Mpape area of Abuja was Thursday arrested. The suspect is now being held at the FCT Command Headquarters by old CBN building, Garki, Abuja. Ernest, a barman, was arrested at his hideout by police detectives.
7. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has counselled Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, to stop pushing the party’s third term discourse in the public space. PDP warned Oshiomhole to “desist from going to the Presidential villa to push the impossible as such will not save him from the axe of suspension dangling over his political head” or his inescapable prosecution over allegations of corruption and mismanagement of Edo state resources while he was governor of that state. This was contained in a statement by PDP’s spokesperson, Kola Ologbondiyan.
8. The Otukpo residence of a former President of the Senate, David Mark, was on Thursday gutted by fire. The house is located in the GRA area of the town. The fire, according to workers in the compound, started from a nearby bush near the fence of the guest house and burnt two ambulances and over 15 motorcycles to ashes.
9. The Minister of Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, Thursday, inspected the ongoing rehabilitation of the runway of Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu with the Enugu State Deputy Governor, Hon. Mrs. Cecilia Ezeilo, expressing satisfaction with the extent of work done so far, and reassuring that the airport will be reopened before Easter as earlier promised.
10. The National Examination Council has urged Nigerians to disregard a publication, which states that it is planning to recruit new staff. The NECO Head of Information and Public Relations, Mr Azeez Sani, in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday, said the council had no intention to recruit new staff.
