These are the Top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Friday 19 August 2022, reviewed by The Informant247 Nigeria News.
Muslim-Muslim ticket best option for Nigeria now, says Adamu
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abdullahi Adamu, has said that same faith ticket fielded by the party is the best thing Nigerians need at the moment.
Speaking with BBC Hausa service, Adamu also noted that the Muslim/Muslim is the best strategy for the APC to win the forthcoming general elections.
2023: I’ll give states power to generate, transmit and distribute electricity – Atiku pledges
Amid the National Union of Electricity Employees (NUEE) strike saga, the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), former Vice President, Atiku has pledged to lead Nigeria out of the darkness when elected President in 2023.
The union’s strike on Wednesday left Nigeria in darkness after it shut down power stations over welfare issues.
However, NUEE after its meeting with the Minister of Labour, Dr Chris Ngige suspended the strike for two weeks.
Mob rescues victim from armed phone thief, sets suspect ablaze in Bayelsa
Police in Bayelsa on Thursday warned residents against taking the law into their hands.
The warning followed the lynching of a suspected phone thief by a mob in Yenagoa on Wednesday.
Angry residents of Green Villa Road in Yenagoa rescued a victim from a phone thief who tried to dispossess him of his mobile phone at gunpoint.
ASUU’s six-month salaries demand stalling negotiations, says FG
The Federal Government, on Thursday, said demands by the Academic Staff Union of Universities to be paid salaries for the six-month strike period is stalling its negotiations with the union.
This was as the FG insisted that it will not concede to ASUU’s demands to be paid the backlog of salaries withheld within the period.
Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this to journalists at the 47th session of the State House Ministerial Media Briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Team at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
FG spends N18.397bn on petrol subsidy daily, says Minister
The House of Representatives Ad Hoc Committee to Investigate the Petroleum Products Subsidy Regime from 2013 to 2022, on Thursday, grilled the Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed, overpayments of subsidy on Premium Motor Spirit (petrol) by the Federal Government.
Ahmed disclosed that the government spends N283 per litre of PMS or N18.397bn per day as subsidy.
She said, “For 2023, the projection is that the average daily truck out will be N64.96 million litres per day; that is about 65 million per day, using an average rate at open market rate of N448.20k and then a regulator pump price of N165 per litre. This gives us an average under-recovery, that is the difference between N165 and N448 of N283.2k.
Troops clear notorious bandit’s camp, recover 27 bags of fertilizer in Kaduna
The Kaduna State Government on Thursday said security operatives have cleared the camp of a notorious bandit, Lawal Kwalba, in Rafin Dawa, and recovered 27 bags of fertilizer in the Dende general area of Chikun Local Government.
Samuel Aruwan Commissioner, Ministry of Internal Security and Home Affairs, Kaduna State, in a statement, said troops also recovered some batteries, one motorcycle and two mobile phones.
I’ll leave office a happy man, move without escorts – Gov Wike
Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike has said he would leave office as a happy man in 2023.
The Governor explained that he is excited that he would be leaving office because his administration has not been a disgrace to the people, adding that he has fulfilled his promises.
Police discover 20 bodies in Edo, apprehend 3 suspects
Men of the Edo Police Command have stormed a suspected ritual shrine in Benin and apprehended three suspects with 20 mummified bodies.
The police command made this revelation on Thursday in Benin via a statement publicized by its Deputy spokesperson, ASP Jennifer Iwegbu.
The dead bodies, according to the police spokesperson, were discovered in a building along Asoro slope, off Ekenhua road in Uzebu quarters, Benin.
Court strikes out suit seeking to nullify Ademola Adeleke’s nomination for Osun guber election
Justice Obiora Egwuatu of the Federal High Court, Abuja, has struck out a suit seeking nullification of submission of the name of Ademola Jackson Nurudeen Adeleke as the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the last July 26 election.
The judge on Thursday struck down the suit on the ground that the plaintiff lacked locus standi to institute the case.
The plaintiff in the suit, Awoyemi Oluwatayo Lukman, had dragged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, the PDP and Adeleke before the court seeking order to void and set aside the submission of Adeleke’s name to INEC on grounds of alleged unlawful action.
Everything about you bundle of lies – PDP chieftain, Bode George attacks Tinubu
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Bode George, has called the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu, as a “bundle of lies.”
The chieftain of the party said everything Tinubu attributed to himself was a “bundle of lies”.
He confessed that the former Governor of Lagos state did nothing to alleviate the pains of residents of Lagos State despite serving as a governor for two terms.