1. A train Thursday derailed at the Abbatoir area of Agege, the outskirts of Lagos on Thursday morning.
Several deaths have been recorded, others were seriously injured while many vehicles and properties were destroyed, the state’s police spokesman, Olarinde Famous-Cole said.
2. A national leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and a former Governor of Lagos State, Bola Tinubu, has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to belt up as Nigerians are suffering under his administration.
According to him, it was high time Buhari led the people to a place where poverty and hunger become less frequent and where prosperity and hope are the daily fare of the common man.
3. The Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, yesterday, asked the Federal High Court in Abuja to dismiss a suit seeking to compel him to produce the ‘missing’ leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mr. Nnamdi Kanu.
In a counter-affidavit he filed in opposition to Kanu’s suit, Buratai told the court that the IPOB leader was never in custody of the Nigeria Army.
4. A Group known as All Progressives Youth Vanguard in Ebonyi State has accused the Minister of Science and Technology, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu and the APC National Chairman, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun of allegedly fueling the continuous leadership crisis in the state chapter of the party.
The group alleged that Onu was using his closeness with the Presidency and the Party’s national leadership to allegedly foment troubles in the party, stressing that Oyegun had made himself a wining tool to destabilize the party in the state.
5. Former aide to the immediate past President, Goodluck Jonathan, Doyin Okupe has reacted to the mass movement of Igbo political leaders from the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC.
According to the former presidential aide, all the noted leaders in the South East have dumped the main opposition party, adding that there were only three or four notable major political personalities of significance that were remaining in the PDP.
6. Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo, has insisted that the country has successfully exited recession. Prof. Osinbajo, while speaking at the 27th Biennial Conference of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, NIQS, in Abuja, said, “the economic is on the path of sustainable growth after getting it out of the woods.”
He said one of the most effective strategies government employed to drag the economy out of the woods was massive spending in the construction sector.
7. Suspected political thugs on Thursday attacked the Director General of Voice of Nigeria (VON) and chieftain of All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Osita Okechukwu at his hometown, Eke, Udi LGA Enugu State.
He was attacked during the local government election at Central School Eke polling centre at about 1.30pm.
8. The naira, yesterday, appreciated to N359.56 in the Investor and Exporter (I&E) Foreign Exchange, forex Window.
The indicative exchange rate for the I & E forex Window, known as Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange, NAFEX, appreciated to N359.56 per dollar, yesterday, from Wednesday ’s market rate which stood at N360.70 per dollar.
9. Former President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday said the only way for the Igbos to end marginalization was for them to vote out the All Progressives Congress, and the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) beginning with Saturday’s governorship election in Anambra state.
He urged Anambra people to return the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP back to the state by voting for the party’s candidate, Mr. Oseleka Obaze and stand firm to defend democracy in the state.
10. Governor Abubakar Bello of Niger has submitted the names of 18 commissioner nominees to the State House of Assembly for screening and confirmation.
Bello in a letter read on the floor of the House on Thursday by the Speaker, Alhaji Ahmed Marafa said his action was in line with section 192 (2) of the 1999 constitution as amended.
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