Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. A major restructuring aimed to strengthen the army and prepare the institution for the existential security challenges was announced on Thursday by President Bola Tinubu. The president created four new divisions to taker the structure of the Army to 12. He also authorised the recruitment of 28,000 additional personnel.
2. Three persons accused of complicity in the kidnap of school children and three teachers in Oyo State were yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Abuja. The trio, all indigenes of Suleija in Niger State, are Abdulrazak Umar (a k a Abu Khalifa/Abu Khalid), Yinusa Musa (alias Yunusa Bin Musa) and Shamu Sani, also known as Abu Itisar.
3. National Leader of Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Senator Seriake Dickson, on Thursday, declared that the party had emerged as the country’s biggest opposition platform. He pledged that it would continue to resist what he described as anti-democratic forces and defend multi-party democracy.
4. An Enugu Air Embraer 170 aircraft suffered a runway excursion after landing at Benin Airport on Thursday, with all 67 passengers and five crew members safely evacuated and no injuries or fatalities recorded. The aircraft, with registration 5N-ENR, was seen off the runway and resting in nearby vegetation in videos that surfaced shortly after the incident.
5. The Nigerian Army has declared one of its personnel, Private Mohammed Yusuf Amutu, wanted over allegations that he unlawfully sold and supplied military uniforms to terrorists and other criminal elements. The Army disclosed this in a
