Beautiful morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
Adeyeye, a former minister of state for works, who announced his resignation from the PDP some weeks ago, said on Tuesday that he was joining forces with the APC and its candidate, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, to rescue the state.
The Command’s Public Relations Officer, ASP Muhktar Aliyu said the criminals carted away some cows after the attack, but added that the police were on the trail of the rustlers.
The State Commissioner of Police, Fatai Owoseni, made this disclosure when he led his men to the site of the factory located at Amyuwogbu-Ibilla in Oju where the suspect was apprehended.
Umahi, who made the declaration in Abakaliki while addressing the people at the 2018 democracy day celebration, noted that such order would not be observed in the state.
He recalled that the herdsmen crisis predated the present administration, assuring that the people of the state would still support the President in the coming 2019 general elections despite the losses and pains they suffered as a result of the herdsmen incursions in the state.
Fayose in a statement he personally signed said the APC was allegedly working in collaboration with some unscrupulous elements in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to delete not less than 40 percent names from the Voter Register, using the Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) as a decoy and
targeting Ado Ekiti, the State capital and Ikere Ekiti where the PDP candidate comes from.
One of his children, Segun Adesokan, a lawyer and former Special Adviser on Due Process to Governor Abiola Ajimobi, confirmed his death to journalists in Ibadan on Tuesday.
Report said the victims were allegedly shot by unidentified persons after a caucus meeting held by a faction of elders of the community over the tussle.
The minister gave the directive to Chief Medical Officers of all federal government owned hospitals late Monday night.
10. No fewer than 10 persons have been killed and several others injured in a communal clash that broke out in Agatu Local Government Area of Benue State.
The war broke out between Agbaduma, Abugbe and Aila communities in Agatu over ownership of land and fish ponds in the area.