Newspapers Review: 10 Things You Need To Know Today.

Good day! Happy Tuesday,here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers.


1. Following his meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari, former Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, has suspended his much anticipated visit to the state in order to avoid widespread violence and unrest that may result from such visit. Kwankwaso, in a statement issued through his aide and former SSG under his administration, Rabiu Bichi, said he suspended the visit after wide consultations with friends well-wishers home and abroad.

2. The leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Youths Renaissance has reacted to the scathing remarks made against President Muhammadu Buhari by the General Overseer of the Latter Rain Assembly Church, Pastor Tunde Bakare. The group, which threatened to expose the cleric, said Pastor Bakare had formed the habit of constantly criticizing the government without providing single solution to the numerous problems facing the country.

3. Report says no fewer than twenty Fulani herdsmen have arrived Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. According to the herdsmen, they were in the state to “settle and graze”.
This was made known by the Ogun State Police Command in a statement on Monday through its spokesman, Abimbola Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi said the herdsmen have been profiled and that though anyone was free to reside in any part of the country, the condition under which the herdsmen came into the city called for caution.

4. Ekiti State governor Ayo Fayose, at a PDP rally on Monday in Ado Ekiti, declared that God directed him to support his Deputy, Kolapo Olusola-Eleka, to succeed him.
“Olusola never said he wanted to be deputy governor, but God instructed me to pick him. I said we will go together after our tenure, but God said I should allow him to stay; that what I said was my own opinion,” Fayoe told the huge crowd.

5. The Deputy Minority Whip of the Senate, Biodun Olujimi; one of her aides and the Provost of the Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria, Mr. Kingsley Oti, on Monday engaged in physical combat over the right to use an elevator in the National Assembly Complex.
The fight, which broke out around 11.15am on the ground floor of the New Senate Wing of the building, lasted for about 20 minutes and led to the disruption of the congress being held by members of PASAN in Room 231 on the second floor of the building.

6. There was commotion on Monday in the Oke-Ado area of Ibadan, Oyo State, when suspected rival factions of the Oodua Peoples Congress clashed, leaving several people injured.
It was learnt that the factions clashed over the control of the area, with several shops and offices looted.
Many vehicles were also reportedly destroyed in the fight which started around 6.45am.
An eyewitness said the rival groups engaged one another  with guns, machetes and other weapons.

7. The Government of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, has rubbished Obasanjo’s statement on Buhari’s second term, saying he won’t waste his time to read the special statement by former President. He said the text of the statement was too long. He said Obj was entitled to his own opinion.
8. Ahead of the 2019 general elections, a former governor of Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, has told Nigerians to avoid the mistake they made during the 2015 election. Musa, who noted that Nigeria is in a desperate situation as credible leaders are in short supply in the North and across the country, called for the right judgment.

9. An Abuja-based herbalist, 38-year-old Emmanuel Chigozie, has been arrested in the Nyanya area of the Federal Capital Territory for allegedly selling a baby to a female client for N650,000. Report says he was arrested by operatives of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons and the Department of State Services on Saturday after weeks of surveillance.

10. It has been reported that a middle-aged major in the Nigerian Army, Afisatu Ajuya, was allegedly murdered by her security guard and eight others in Ugiagbe Street, off First Ugbor Road, in Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State. The report claimed that the officer had returned from a journey at about 9.30pm on Saturday when she was received by her guard, said to be of Hausa extraction who mobilized other eight guards and stabbed her to death, claiming she died of fire incident.