Newspapers Review: 10 Things you Need To know In Nigeria Today.

Good morning! Happy Weekend! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers1.The Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has disclosed that its personnel across the country have been directed to watch out for the former Chairman of the Presidential Taskforce on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina to prevent him from escaping.
The NIS Public Relations Officer, Sunday James, who made the disclosure said Maina had been placed on the watch list afresh.

2.​Nigerian ​government has confirmed six additional cases of Monkeypox.
Minister of State for Health, Osagie Ehanire, said two cases each were confirmed in Bayelsa and Akwa Ibom States, one each in Enugu State and Abuja.

3. An APC leader in Osun State, Amitolu Shitu, has said that President Muhammmadu Buhari has failed in his campaign against corruption.

Shittu asked the President to therefore sack the suspended Secretary General Babachir Lawal and the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, NHIS, Usman Yusuf.

4.A Board of Trustees, BoT, member of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and estranged close ally of President Muhammadu Buhari, Ali Buba Galadima has described some Agricultural policies of the current Federal government as “mere propaganda.”
Galadima insisted that the current Agricultural policies of the Buhari’s government was not being felt by farmers in the country.

5. The Presidency has once again explained why President Muhammadu Buhari has been mum on cases of corruption involving members of his cabinet.

It said that the Senate and the Ministry of Health panels that investigated the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, and the Executive Secretary of the National Health Insurance Scheme, Prof. Usman Yusuf, lacked the powers to indict the top government officials.

6. The Comptroller-General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (retd.), yesterday came hard on the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari, asserting that it had not kept to its promises.
The customs boss said the challenge ahead of 2019 elections was bigger than that of 2015.

7. The Buhari Support Group (BSG), has stated that president Muhammadu Buhari has no option than to contest the 2019 elections.
Leaders of the group, Abu Ibrahim and Senate Leader, Ahmed Lawan, who were in the Presidential Villa to meet with Buhari, said though the issue of 2019 did not come up at the meeting, the group believes Buhari can ensure the progress, stability and prosperity of the nation.

8. Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, has said that it was impossible for anyone to Islamise Nigeria, as claimed by Christian interests.
Osinbajo, who was speaking in Lagos on Friday during the Greater Nigeria Pastors Conference convened by Apostle Wale Adefarasin and Rev. Abayomi Kasali, explained that the recent uproar over the country’s subscription to Sukuk Bonds was not justified.

9. David Mark, former Senate President has revealed how the senate threatened former President Goodluck Jonathan before he sacked the embattled former chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina in 2013.
Mark disclosed that the senate opted to threaten Jonathan into sacking Maina because the former Pension boss ignored several summons to appear before a Senate committee investigating allegations of his mismanagement of pension funds as chairman.

10. The Lagos State High court sitting in Igbosere on Friday scheduled November 11, 2017, for ruling in the trial of billionaire kidnapper, Chukwudumeme Onwuamadike popularly known as Evans and three others.
Evans, who is facing two pending charges bordering on murder and illegal possession of firearms was brought into the court yesterday amid heavily-armed, combat-ready policemen.