1. DAILY POST today launches the first ever free Nigerian newspaper. The newspaper will first be distributed in Lagos and Abuja to Nigerians free of charge and it’s expected to spread across to other states in few months.
2. Some armed robbers on Thursday stormed the branch office of First City Monument Bank (FCMB), in Plot B, Waterfront Plaza, Admiralty Way, Lekki, and killed four persons in an operation that lasted for nearly 30 minutes. Those killed were three policemen and a teenager.
3. Rivers State Governor, Mr. Chibuike Amaechi, yesterday claimed that God has shown him and others the expected winner of the March 28 presidential elections, declaring that President Goodluck Jonathan was not the one revealed by God as the winner.
4.Reports now have it that Nigerian government has engaged the service of several from Eastern Europe to join its campaign against the Boko Haram sect. Reports say the Eastern European mercenaries have now joined the South-African and Nigerian soldiers currently fighting the insurgents.
5. President Jonathan’s expectation was dashed on Thursday during a private visit to The Awujale and paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, as he was told that it is not proper in Ijebuland or Yorubaland for an Oba to ask his subjects to vote for a particular person. He said that the Oba can only ask his subject to vote according to their conscience.
6. The Action Alliance has withdrawn from a suit it filed with three other political parties kicking against the use of card readers by the Independent National Electoral Commission in the coming general elections.
7. The South South Peoples Assembly, SSPA led by former Federal Commissioner for Information and elder statesman, Chief Edwin Clark, has continued to call for the sack of the INEC Chairman, Prof. Jega. They are of the view that the INEC boss has shown high level of distrust and must not be allowed to conduct the coming elections.
8. Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), General Mohammadu Buhari (rtd) declared on Thursday that one of the major targets of his government was to eliminate corruption. He said that if corruption is not killed, it will eventually kill Nigeria.
9. Troops confronting the Boko Haram insurgents in the NorthEast on Thursday successfully flushed out Boko Haram from Adamawa state as the only controlled area held by the group was reclaimed by Nigerian troops. The Director, Defence Information, Maj. Gen. Chris Olukolade, announced on Thursday that Madagali which was formerly controlled by the insurgents was the last area in the state to have been reclaimed by the multinational troops.
10. President Goodluck Jonathan disclosed on Wednesday during a VOA interview that fighters from insurgent group, Boko Haram have traveled to the Middle East for training with ISIS. The President, however, did not name the countries where the fighters were being allegedly trained.
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