Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. Mrs. Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN, is ahead of other candidates in the Presidential election of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. Results released as of 7:30pm on Saturday showed that Badejo-Okusanya polled 10,554 votes of the 22,863 ballots cast as of the time.
2. Three siblings travelling from Abuja to Benue State with the corpse of their late mother have been reportedly abducted by suspected gunmen in Ohimini Local Government Area of Benue State. The victims were said to have been intercepted around rural communities along the Ogobia–Otukpo Road, between Omutele and Ankpechi villages in Oglewu District, where armed invaders reportedly attacked a few days earlier.
3. The African Democratic Congress, ADC, has called on President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to “abandon his neoliberal economic policies that has ruined the lives of almost the entire country or simply quit”. It said Nigerians cannot continue to continue on this same path. ADC, in a statement, on Saturday, said it is deeply concerned by recent reports by the World Bank indicating that 139 million Nigerians now live below the poverty line.
4. The Presidency has suggested that Nigeria’s lingering security crisis may have been influenced by external forces, citing international claims and developments it said indicate that foreign interests could be playing a role in the country’s terrorism challenge. Special Adviser to the President on Policy Communications, Daniel Bwala, made the assertion while speaking on The Link Up Podcast, a panel discussion hosted by EchoRoom and
