Nigerian Newspapers: 10 Things To Note From Nigerian Newspapers This Tuesday Morning

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers

1. The year 2018 started on a sad note yesterday with over 15 persons killed and several others injured after gunmen attacked Omoku, Ogba/Egbema/Ndoni Local Government Area of Rivers State.

DAILY POST reports that the victims were accosted and killed on their way from the Cross Over service by armed gunmen.

2. On another sad note, Chief of Numana, in Sanga local government Area of Kaduna State, Dr. Gambo Makama and his wife were also killed by unknown gunmen at their residence on New Year day.

The royal father and his wife were attacked and killed at about 12:18 while celebrating the New Year in their home.

3. Fiery Enugu priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka has warned President Muhammadu Buhari not to contemplate seeking for a second tenure in 2019.

Mbaka, the spiritual director, Adoration Ministry, Enugu, Nigeria, said Buhari would be totally disgraced if he takes a shot at the presidency after his current tenure.

4. Junaid Mohammed, Second Republic lawmaker, has warned the President Muhammadu Buhari-led Federal Government to stop lying to Nigerians over the country’s situation.

He noted that the Federal Government used the whole of 2017 lying to Nigerians about “wanting to change ministers and some people in some key positions who have been found wanting.”

5. Founder and Senior Pastor of the Omega Fire Ministry, Auchi, Apostle Johnson Suleiman, has released 50 shocking prophecies for the year 2018.

Apostle Suleman prophesied about manhunt for the governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose and killing of political enemies by the current political leaders in his prophecies.

6. On his part, founder of the Synagogue Church of All Nations, Prophets T B Joshua, has revealed what his members and followers should expect in 2018.

The prophet, while speaking during a Cross Over service held at the church’s headquarters in Ikotun area of Lagos, prophesied that every unfavourable situation in the year 2017 ended with the year.

7. The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption (PACAC), Prof. Itse Sagay (SAN), on Monday slammed those criticizing President Muhammadu Buhari and the All Progressives Congress (APC) for naming dead men among appointees into boards of Federal Government agencies.

Sagay believes Buhari is not to be blamed, describing the critics as Lilliputians and idle minds complaining over nothing.

8. The Chairman of the Senate Committee on petroleum (downstream), Senator Kabiru Marafa has blamed the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and oil marketers over short supply of the petroleum products in the country.

According to him, findings have shown that filling stations’ owners who sell this commodity to the public were behind the development.

9. The Army has arrested six persons for alleged diversion and sale of petrol using an NNPC tanker in Zonkwa, Zangon Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State.

The Commander of Operation Safe Haven in the Area, Colonel Idong Ekpeyong, told newsmen in Kafanchan that the suspects were arrested when the tanker, with number plates MDG 86 XA was discharging the product at a filling station along Kachia Road in Zonkwa.

10. The Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, yesterday said that the controversy over appointment of some dead persons in the board of some Federal Parastatals, was as a result of delay and lumping of thousands of names together without due diligence.

Reacting, through its General Secretary, Dr. Peter Ozo-Eson, NLC insisted that it had expressed serious worries over the long delay in the constitution and inauguration of board of parastatals especially those that concern Labour.