Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. President Bola Tinubu on Monday approved the appointment of 26 persons to the boards and management of 10 federal government agencies and commissions. Among the appointees is Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti, who was named chairman of the board of the Rural Electrification Agency, REA.
2. The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday, honoured an invitation by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, appearing before investigators probing the activities of the fictitious Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC. Gbajabiamila’s appearance comes nearly two weeks after President Bola Tinubu directed the anti-graft agency to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the fake presidential agency.
3. The Department of State Services is set to appeal Monday’s life sentence handed to two top commanders of the Ansaru Terror organization by a Federal High Court, Abuja. Justice Emeka Nwite had, shortly after Mahmud Usman, a.k.a Abu Bara’a/Abbas/Mukhtar, the self-styled Emir of Ansaru; and Abubakar Abba, a.k.a Mahmud al-Nigeri/Malam Mamuda, pleaded guilty to all the 32-count charges against them, sentenced both men to life imprisonment but the service viewed the punish as too light.
4. Vice-President Kashim Shettima has urged West African leaders to collectively confront the wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. He reminded South Africans that countries such as Nigeria made enormous sacrifices to support the anti apartheid struggle, including deductions from students’ scholarship allowances to finance liberation movements.
5. The House of Representatives has begun clause-by-clause consideration of President Bola
