Top 10 things to note from Nigerian Newspapers this Tuesday morning

Beautiful morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:

1. Report says Ugboju in Agatu LGA of Benue State is currently under herdsmen attack. The report claims that the community has been taken over by gunmen suspected to be herdsmen. The attack has forced many residents out of their homes for safety.

2. Former Minister of Aviation, Femi Fani-Kayode, has claimed that former Nigerian presidents, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, Ibrahim Babangida, have rejected Buhari. He also said T.Y. Danjuma, Amnesty International, Transparency International, IMF, Afenifere, Ohaeneze, Middle Belt Forum, Niger Delta Elders and Bill Gates have all rejected the president.

3. The national leader of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, was conspicuously absent as President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday led other top government officials, to a meeting of the party’s national caucus. Other top government officials who attended the meeting included Vice-President, Yemi Osinbajo; President of the Senate, Bukola Saraki; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and state governors.

4. The Ministry of Defence has reacted to the comment by TY Danjuma on self defence, admitting that it had received reports from Nigerians on misconducts by soldiers as regards the farmers and herdsmen clashes. It said it has also put such soldiers through “disciplinary procedures.”

5. Minister of Justice, Mr. Abubakar Malami, on Monday told Abuja Division of the Federal High Court that the federal government was opposed to the change in 2019 election sequence by the National Assembly because the 1999 constitution made the actions of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) sacrosanct in the choice of date for elections.

6. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Monday apologized to Nigerians for past mistakes and vowed to rescue the country from its current situation. The party reflected on its 16 years of stewardship and admitted it made some mistakes and asked Nigerians to forgive its wrongdoings. Prince Uche Secondus, the National Chairman of the PDP said this on Monday at a public discourse on contemporary politics and governance in Nigeria, organized by the party in Abuja.

7. Sergey Mavrodi, the founder of MMM, a Russian company that ran one of the world’s largest Ponzi scheme, is dead. According to a report by Moskovsky Komsomolets, the founder of the MMM series of financial pyramid schemes, Mavrodi, died in Moscow at the age of 62. Mavrodi was taken to a city hospital from a bus stop overnight Monday, March 26, after he felt weakness and pain in the chest area.

8. The Ekiti State government has questioned the government of President Muhammadu Buhari on its ceasefire discussion with Boko Haram insurgents. The governor wondered why the government is discussing ceasefire with the Islamic sect they claim to have defeated.

9. The Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee Against Corruption, Prof. Itse Sagay, SAN, has backed the advice by a former Minister of Defence and an elder statesman, Lt. Gen. Theophilus Danjuma (rtd.) that Nigerians should defend themselves against killers. He said that the law allows Nigerians to defend themselves from being massacred.

10. The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, has said that the National Caucus meeting of the party held on Monday was to conclude the agenda the party started last time which was inconclusive. He disclosed that the discussion centered on true federalism and other serious matters.