Nigerian newspapers: 10 things you need to know on Friday morning

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers:

1. Senator Oluremi Tinubu on Thursday said her husband, President Bola Tinubu, should not be blamed for Nigeria’s current economic woes. Speaking at the palace of Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Ogunwusi, on Thursday, the First Lady said Tinubu’s government is still very young.

2. The Chairman of Isa Local Government Area of ​​Sokoto State, Alhaji Sharifu Kamarawa, has told the Minister of Defense, Alhaji Bello Matawalle, that some communities in the council are still under the control of bandits. He told the minister that the bandits led by Kachalla Bello Turji had appointed and deposed village heads in those areas.

3. The Governing Council of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has asked President Bola Tinubu to immediately review his policies to stem the widespread hardship in the country. In a communique after the meeting on Thursday at the party headquarters in Abuja, the BOT expressed concern over the economic hardship and the “general sense of misery and despondency”.

4. The Court of Appeal in Abuja on Thursday upheld the judgment of the Federal High Court which set aside the N800 billion budget approved by the Rivers State House of Assembly faction loyal to Governor Siminalayi Fubara. The court ordered Fubara to resubmit the budget to the full House.

5. The National Chairman of the Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, Abubakar Shettima, has urged the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited to sell petrol to its marketers at the same rates as Dangote Petroleum Refinery. In an interview, Shettima also demanded reimbursement of monies owed to the oil marketers, who have been detained by NNPC for the past three months.

6. The Defense Headquarters said on Thursday that it has chosen not to go after former Niger Delta militant warlord Mujahid Asari-Dokubo to avoid being accused of acting ‘undemocratically’. The Director of Defense Media Operations, Major General Edward Buba, made the comment in Abuja, while reacting to a recent report on Asari-Dokubo’s alleged threat to shoot down a military helicopter reportedly hovering around his residence.

7. A female secondary school student of Akoko Anglican Grammar School, Arigidi Akoko, in Akoko North-West Local Government Area of ​​Ondo State (name withheld) has been arrested by the state police for allegedly assaulting her male colleague, Habib Salau stabbed. until death. The incident is said to have occurred following the argument that arose between the duo outside the school building after school.

8. A Federal High Court in Kano on Thursday sentenced a 67-year-old Lebanese man, Zuhier R Akar, to 14 years in prison for sexually exploiting two teenage girls. The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, Kano State Command, has charged Akar of Gidan Wanka, Unity Road, Fagge Local Government Area, Kano, with two counts of human trafficking and sexual exploitation.

9. Some sports journalists who traveled to Uyo via Anambra State to cover a football event in Akwa Ibom State have been kidnapped. According to sources, the journalists, about eleven in number, were traveling in a bus through Iseke, around Ihiala area of ​​Anambra, when they were abducted.

10. Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka has said he has “made arrangements” for his death, even as he is also planning a vacation. At 90, the playwright, essayist, novelist and poet discussed everything from his artistic inspirations to his plans in an interview with CNN.