Good day! Happy Wednesday,here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. Super Eagles on Tuesday night defeated Equatorial Guinea in the ongoing CHAN tournament and booked a place in the quarter final of the competition. The Nigerian side who were shocked by a first-half goal by Equatorial Guinea returned in the second half to score three goals.
2. National leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubu has said that his visit to President Buhari was nothing out of the ordinary and has nothing to do with the statement issued by former president, Olusegun Obasanjo. A terse statement by Tinubu’s spokesman, Tunde Rahman, explained that the visit to Buhari was scheduled last week.
3. A former Minister of Education and Bring Back Our Girls, BBOG, Co-convener, Dr. Oby Ezekwesili was arrested and detained by the police yesterday. According to her tweet onTuesday morning said she was being detained in Abuja on the order of the president of Nigeria, Buhari. He was later released after series of reactions from well meaning Nigerians.
4. The Presidency on Tuesday said it will not comment on the letter released by former President Olusegun Obasanjo. When approached State House Correspondent on the matter, Senior Special Assistant on Media and publicity, Garba Shehu, said the presidency will make no comment at the moment.
5. Oil prices were firm on Wednesday, receiving ongoing support from healthy economic growth as well as from supply restrictions led by a group of producers around the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and Russia.
Spot Brent crude oil futures, the international benchmark for oil prices, were at 70 dollars a barrel at 01:02 GMT, up 4 cents from their last close.
6. Ekiti state governor, Ayodele Fayose has reacted to former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s statement advising President Muhammadu Buhari not to contest the 2019 election. Even though he agreed with the former president’s statement, he said what he said were almost the same as what he had been saying. He, however, argued that Obasanjo and Buhari were like the accuser & the accused and that both of them are analogue and do not represent the Nigeria of today.
7. Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, on Tuesday told the Buhari-led government that the state was not interested in cattle colony. He also vowed that he will always defend the interest of Rivers State, and that he will not allow the state to be controlled by external forces.
8. Atiku Abubakar, former Vice President on Tuesday reacted to the burning of former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Olu Falae’s farm by suspected Fulani herdsmen. The former Vice President, in a statement by his Media Office described the attack as condemnable, saying it is a punishable under the law.
9. Co-Founder of the BringBackofOurGirls movement, Mrs. Oby Ezekwesili, said on Tuesday that she and some members of her group were arrested and detained by the police in Abuja in broad daylight.
Ezekwesili, who is also a former Minister of Education, said though the police refused to state the reason for the arrest, she was detained alongside some BBOG members.
10. Former president, Olusegun Obasanjo, on Tuesday advised President Muhammadu Buhari against seeking re-election in 2019. He also lambasted the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), for failing to solve Nigeria’s problems. Obasanjo, in a strongly-worded statement, subtly promoted what may become a political party, which he called Coalition
for Nigeria, CN.
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