Good morning! Here is today’s summary from  Nigerian Newspaper 1. President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday insisted that he has fulfilled his promise to eradicate polio from Nigeria. Buhari, who spoke at the formal certification of the Wild Polio Virus eradication in the African region during the virtual session of the 70th World Health Organisation, WHO regional committee for Africa, also expressed optimism that just like Polio, COVID-19 would be defeated both in Nigeria and Africa. 2. The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, SERAP, has berated Femi Fani-Kayode, former Aviation Minister over his attack on a reporter with Daily Trust, Charles Eyo. SERAP said Fani-Kayode should publicly apologize for hurling insults on Eyo who was doing his job. 3. President Muhammadu Buhari has explained why he delayed in approving community policing in Nigeria. Buhari said the inability of states to pay workers was responsible for the delay in approving community policing. 4. Governor Nas...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers 1.  The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has maintained it will not suspend the ongoing strike action. National President of ASUU, Professor Biodun Ogunyemi, who said this during a stakeholder’s meeting at the Union’s Secretariat at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, noted that the federal government has continually failed to fulfill its Memorandum of Action agreed in 2019, insisting that the federal government may trigger another round of crisis should it force ASUU members into the IPPIS Scheme. 2.  The acting Vice-Chancellor of the University of Lagos, Prof Omololu Soyombo has finally stepped down. However, Soyombo, in a statement yesterday, said it was necessary he did so because the government had directed the UNILAG Senate to nominate an acting VC for the varsity. 3.  Some aggrieved indigenes of Southern Kaduna, yesterday, agreed on a peace deal, in a bid to put an end to the ...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1.  The Presidency has released the second-term achievements of President Muhammadu Buhari. It listed 35 policies, programmes and projects including the controversial Companies and Allied Matters Act, CAMA. Also listed as an achievement by the President is the 774 nationwide menial job creation and increment of National Youth Service Corps, NYSC, allowance. 2. Ahead of the September 19 governorship election in Edo State, the Department of State Services, DSS has invited some top leaders of the All Progressives Congress, APC, in the state. Those inhibited are Tony Adun, aka Kabaka and nine other leaders of APC for a peace meeting today. The meeting will hold at the headquarters of the DSS’ in Edo state at No. 1, Court Road, Government Reservation Area, GRA, Benin. 3. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, yesterday, released the final list of candidates for the forthcoming governorship election in Ond...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from   Nigerian Newspapers 1. President Muhammadu Buhari has approved 13.3 billion naira for community policing across Nigeria. The Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, who disclosed this during the virtual meeting of National Executive Council, NEC, said, Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele, some governors, among others were appointed to coordinated the utilization of the funding. 2. The Nigerian Bar Association, NBA has withdrawn its invitation to the Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir el-Rufai, following protests from some lawyers. The National Executive Committee of the Nigerian Bar Association during its meeting resolved that the invitation El-Rufai, by the 2020 Annual General Conference Planning committee be withdrawn and decision communicated to the Governor. 3. Muslim Rights Concern, MURIC, has described the Nigeria Bar Association, NBA’s decision to withdraw its invitat...

  Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers   1. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC yesterday night, announced 593 confirmed COVID-19 cases, bringing the total in the country to 50,488. The new cases were reported from 16 states: 1Plateau (186), Lagos (172), FCT (62), Oyo (27), Delta (25), Rivers (20), Ondo (19), Edo (18), Kaduna (17), Enugu (12), Akwa Ibom (10), Ogun (7), Abia (6), Gombe (6), Kano (3) and Osun (3). 2. The Presidency has taken a swipe on Nigerians criticizing the invitation of former Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Deputy Governor, Obadiah Mailafia by the Department of State Services, DSS over his recent comments on Boko Haram. Garba Shehu, the President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, said the DSS took the right decision, insisting that this was not the first time the secret police was inviting people for questioning, adding that Nigeria is not Mali. 3. The Federal High...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from  Nigerian Newspapers : 1. The Department of State Services, DSS has invited former Speaker of House of Representatives, Ghali Umar Naa’ba.  This followed his condemnation of President Muhammadu Buhari over insecurity in Nigeria. He had described Nigeria as a failed state.  National Consultative Front spokesperson, Tanko Yunusa, announced the invitation in a statement yesterday.  He said Naa’ab will honour the DSS invitation tomorrow by 12:00pm. 2. An election petition tribunal has affirmed the election of Douye Diri as the governor of Bayelsa State. The tribunal ruled that the petition filed by Owei Woniwei of the Alliance for Democracy, AD, against Diri was incompetent and lacked merit. The three-man panel led by Justice Owodunni took the decision yesterday. 3. Nollywood actress, Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde, has revealed that she has been ill and has since been in isolation. The actress, who disclosed this via her Instagram acco...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from  Nigerian Newspapers 1. The embattled Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi, yesterday, officially declared intentions to run for governorship position under the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP. With his emergence as the candidate of ZLP three weeks after he lost the PDP primaries to Eyitayo Jegede, it is believed that a third force that will give both the APC and PDP a run for their money at the October 10, 2020 governorship polls has emerged. 2. Unknown gunmen, on Thursday night, killed a member of Bauchi State House of Assembly and kidnapped his two wives and a year-old son. The lawmaker, Honourable Musa Mante Baraza, was killed in his hometown, Dass, the headquarters of Dass Local Government Area of the State. 3. The University of Lagos, UNILAG Senate and four unions have opposed the removal of Prof. Oluwatoyin Ogundipe as Vice Chancellor. They labeled the sack and the appointment of Prof. Theophilus Soyombo as Acting VC, illegal. 4. N...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from  Nigerian Newspapers 1. No fewer than 15 persons were said to have been killed by armed bandits in Ukuru village in Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State yesterday. Eyewitness account stated that victims met their untimely death at a tea joint while taking their breakfast, when the gunmen on motorcycles in their number unleashed the attack. 2. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control, NCDC   yesterday  night, announced 373 new confirmed COVID-19 cases, bring the total cases in Nigeria to 48,118. The new cases were reported from 20 states: Lagos (69), Osun (41), Kaduna (40), Oyo (40), FCT (35), Plateau (22), Rivers (19), Kano (17), Ondo (17), Ogun (15), Abia (14), Gombe (12), Imo (9), Enugu (7), Kwara (6), Delta (5), Niger (2), Borno(1), Bauchi (1) and Nasarawa (1). 3. The Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, has revealed that up till now, the President Muhammadu Buhari government has not refunded the State the money it...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers 1. The management of the University of Lagos, UNILAG, has announced that Professor Theophilus Omololu Soyombo of the Faculty of Social Sciences has been appointed as the acting the Vice-Chancellor of the University following the sack of embattled VC, Professor Olawatoyin Ogundipe, The council in a statement released on Thursday by its Registrar and Secretary, Esq. Oladejo Azeez maintained that Ogundipe has been removed as the Vice chancellor of the University. 2. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC has commenced the investigation of two Lebanese, Dina Jihad Khali and Chamseddine Waell Mohammed. They were arrested yesterday by officers of the Customs Area Command, Port Harcourt, Rivers State while attempting to smuggle a total sum of $890,000 out of Nigeria through the Port Harcourt International Airport. 3. Former Nigeria president, Olusegun Obasanjo, has called on younger Africans to participate actively...

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from  Nigerian Newspapers 1. The embattled Deputy Governor of Ondo State, Agboola Ajayi has resigned his membership from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, six weeks after he dumped the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The deputy governor who came second during the July 22 governorship primaries of the PDP after losing to candidate of the party, Eyitayo Jegede was said to have perfected move to fly the flag of the Zenith Labour Party, ZLP, at the forthcoming October 10, 2020 governorship election in the state. 2. Rivers State Governor and Chairman of the PDP Campaign Council for the Edo State Governorship election, Nyesom Wike, has alleged plans from some quarters to scuttle the Edo State Governorship election on September 7 in a desperate effort to remove Governor Godwin Obaseki from Office. Wike stated that the alleged plan is to scuttle the governorship election in Edo State because the All Progressives Congress is scared of a free and...