Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know Monday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers;
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‎1. Governor Umar Bago of Niger State has said it is mandatory for preachers to submit their sermons for approval. Speaking on TVC’s Politics on Sunday, the governor said that for everyone going to sermon on Friday, he should bring his scriptures for review.
2. The Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral (Rtd) Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, has said the state was torn by divisions, instability, and broken trust before the intervention of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who appointed him to preside over the state for six months. He spoke during the Inter-Denominational Church Thanksgiving Service at the Ecumenical Centre in Port Harcourt.
3. The Federal Government has warned that 11 states may experience heavy rainfall that may lead to flooding between Sunday and Thursday. This was contained in a notice issued by the Federal Ministry of Environment’s National Flood Early Warning Centre.
4. Suspected armed herdsmen have reportedly killed a farmer and injured members of his family and several others in a fresh attack on Tse Akor Gbatse village, Nyiev Council Ward of Guma Local Government Area, LGA, of Benue state. The attack also left several persons missing and unaccounted for.
5. The Imo State Police Command has launched manhunt for the abductors of a former member of the Imo State House of Assembly, Ngozi Ogbu. Ogbu, a chieftain of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, represented Okigwe State Constituency in the legislature.
6. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested an Indian businessman, Gupta Ravi Kumar, alongside three Nigerian accomplices, over a N3.9 billion tramadol shipment intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos. The suspects, Ogunlana Olanrewaju, Olushola Kayode, and Bakare Muheeb, were linked to 2,248,000 pills of tramadol 200mg/225mg imported from Delhi, India.
7. The Federal High Court in Abuja will today (Monday) hear an application by the detained leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, seeking an order for his transfer from the custody of the Department of State Services to the National Hospital, Abuja, for urgent medical care.
8. A yet-to-be-identified female police inspector attached to the Lagos State Command may face dismissal or demotion after being arrested for allegedly defrauding a complainant of N915,000 in a failed rice supply deal. It was gathered from a police source on Saturday that the officer was arrested after a complainant (name withheld) reported her at the command headquarters on Wednesday, September 11.
9. The African Democratic Congress has refuted a report that the Independent National Electoral Commission has validated and released a list of the party’s state chairmen across Nigeria’s 36 states and the Federal Capital Territory. In a statement released on Sunday by the party’s spokesperson, Bolaji Abdullahi, via his official X account, the ADC national leadership clarified that INEC has issued no such confirmation, either officially or unofficially.
10. The Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) has forecast thunderstorms and rainfall across the country from Monday to Wednesday. NiMet’s weather outlook, released on Sunday in Abuja, predicted isolated thunderstorms with moderate rains on Monday morning over Kaduna, Gombe, Bauchi, Kebbi, Adamawa, and Taraba states.
Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know Monday morning
