Good day! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. It's sad that the New Year started in some part of Nigeria on a bad note,yesterday with over 15 persons killed and several others injured after gunmen attacked Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.
It was reported that the victims were accosted and killed on their way from the Cross Over service by armed gunmen.
2. On another sad note, Chief of Numana, in Sanga local government Area of Kaduna State, Dr. Gambo Makama and his wife were also killed by unknown gunmen at their residence on New Year day.
The royal father and his wife were attacked and killed at about 12:18 while celebrating the New Year in their home.
In Kwara, worshippers were attacked by youths who wanted to organise a New Year carnival.
3. Fiery Enugu priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to contemplate seeking for a second tenure in 2019.
Mbaka, the spiritual director, Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, said Buhari would be totally disgraced if he takes a shot at the presidency after his current tenure.
4. Junaid Mohammed, Second Republic lawmaker, has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to stop lying to Nigerians over the country’s situation.
He noted that the Federal Government used the whole of 2017 lying to Nigerians about “wanting to change ministers and some people in some key positions who have been found wanting.”
5. President Muhammadu Buhari has once again reacted to the calls for restructuring which dominated the political scene in 2017.
In his latest reaction to the issue during his New Year Broadcast on Monday morning, the President insisted that restructuring was not the most pressing issue in Nigeria because the country’s problems have more to do with process.
“In respect of political developments, I have kept a close watch on the on-going debate about “Restructuring”. No human law or edifice is perfect. Whatever structure we develop must periodically be perfected according to changing circumstances and the country’s socio-economic developments,”
6. Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God (RCCG), Worldwide 2018 Prophesies NIGERIA Significant “Goliath” would fall!!! Before the end of the year, there will be rays of hope; that all will still be well!!!
7. The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), on Monday slammed those criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for naming dead men among appointees into boards of Federal Government agencies.
Sagay believes Buhari is not to be blamed, describing the critics as Lilliputians and idle minds complaining over nothing.
8. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on petroleum (downstream), Senator Kabiru Marafa has blamed the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and oil marketers over short supply of the petroleum products in the country.
According to him, findings have shown that filling stations’ owners who sell this commodity to the public were behind the development.
9. The Army has arrested six persons for alleged diversion and sale of petrol using an NNPC tanker in Zonkwa, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.
The Commander of Operation Safe Haven in the Area, Colonel Idong Ekpeyong, told newsmen in Kafanchan that the suspects were arrested when the tanker, with number plates MDG 86 XA was discharging the product at a filling station along Kachia Road in Zonkwa.
10. The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday said that the controversy over appointment of some dead persons in the board of some Federal Parastatals, was as a result of delay and lumping of thousands of names together without due diligence.
Reacting, through its General Secretary, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, NLC insisted that it had expressed serious worries over the long delay in the constitution and inauguration of board of parastatals especially those that concern Labour.
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