Good day! Happy Thursday,here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers.1. The Boko Haram sect Wednesday evening hit Borno State again, killing several persons.
Emergency Response Team (ERT) from the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), Borno State Emergency Management Agency (BOSEMA) and Red Cross have already responded to the incident which occurred around Muna Garage along Mafa Dikwa road in Maiduguri.
2. The Nigerian Senate, on Wednesday witnessed a rowdy session as it was about recording the first official cross-carpeting for the year 2018.
Senator Sonni Ogbuoji (Ebonyi South) had come under order 43 of the rules of the Senate to announce his official defection from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) but was prevented by his colleagues.
3. Everton signed England winger Theo Walcott from Arsenal in a deal worth a reported £25 million ($45 million) on Wednesday (Jan 17).
Walcott had been out of favour with Arsenal boss Arsene Wenger for much of this season and has opted to move to Goodison Park in a bid to kick-start his faltering career.
4.Yusufu Akirikwen, Taraba Attorney-General and Commissioner for Justice says that the state has no land for cattle colonies as proposed by the Buhari government.
Akirikwen on Wednesday in Jalingo told journalists that the state government had enacted a law for the establishment of ranches which would come into effect on January 24.
5. Lionel Messi missed a penalty as Espanyol struck in the dying moments to consign Barcelona to their first defeat since August, 1-0 in the first leg of the Copa del Rey quarter-finals on Wednesday.
Oscar Melendo slotted home a neat finish with two minutes remaining of a temperamental derby cup tie, racing onto Marc Navarro’s low cross to punish Messi for missing a 62nd-minute penalty and send the home crowd into raptures.
“We knew this day would come, we tried to delay it as much as possible but it couldn’t be today,” said Sergio Busquets after the match.
6. A Nigerian Air Force (NAF) remotely piloted aircraft (RPA), yesterday destroyed a Boko Haram workshop in the Sambisa general area.
Air Vice Marshal, Olatokuno Adesanya, Director of Public Relations and Information, in a statement, said a NAF Intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platform had previously discovered that Boko Haram vehicles were parked in the location.
7.UNITED States (U.S.) President Donald Trump could live up to 200 years if he had maintained a healthier diet over the past 20 years, White House Physician, Dr Ronny Jackson, has said.
Trump’s doctor spoke yesterday as he broke the silence on President’s health his diet.
He described Trump’s health as “excellent,” but added that like the majority of Americans, the President “is overweight and he doesn’t get enough exercise.”
8. No fewer than 400 medical doctors stormed the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) in Plateau state armed with a mock coffin in the early hours of Wednesday.
They protested the management of the hospital. The doctors also took their protests to the streets of Jos at 8:30 am after laying siege to the complex of JUTH.
9. The apex Igbo socio-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has rejected the proposal by the Federal Government to establish grazing colonies for Fulani herdsmen across the country, saying the recent killings of people by the herdsmen in Benue and Taraba states have exposed the dangerous path, which Nigeria would be walking through with such a gamble.
They called on the Federal Government to forthwith declare the rampaging Fulani herdsmen terrorists, warning that allowing them to continue to kill, maim and destroy people’s farmland would push communities to engage in self-defence.
10. British Prime Minister Theresa May has appointed Tracey Crouch as the country’s Minister for Loneliness.
Crouch is the current junior Minister for Sport and Civil Society.
The appointment is one of the recommendations made by a commission set up in honour of Jo Cox, a Labour MP.
Cox, who campaigned about loneliness, was murdered by a right wing extremist in 2016.
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