These are the Top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Monday 8 August 2022, reviewed by The Informant247 Nigeria News.
Security personnel, vigilante flush out bandits in Plateau community, kill eight
No fewer than eight bandits were on Saturday neutralized by security personnel in the Sabongari community of Wase Local Government Area of Plateau State when troops of Operation Safe Haven, OpSH as well as a local vigilante group went on an operation to flush out bandits in communities in Wase.
Again, Ese Brume wins Gold medal in Commonwealth Games
Ese Brume has won Gold in the women’s long jump event of the Commonwealth Games after leaping a distance of 6.99m.
It could be recalled that the Brume leaped 7.02m to win Silver and Nigeria’s second medal on the last day of the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, USA.
SERAP drags Buhari, Lai Mohammed, NBC to court over terrorism reporting
Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) and Centre for Journalism Innovation and Development (CJID) have filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari, urging the court to “declare arbitrary and illegal the N5million imposed on Multichoice Nigeria Limited, Trust TV, NTA-Startimes Limited and TelcCom Satellite Limited, over their documentaries on terrorism in the country.”
Joined in the suit as defendants are Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC).
Terrorists launch attack on Plateau, kill herders, kidnap others
Terrorists have again launched an attack on herders in Mangu Local Government Area of Plateau State, leaving many dead and others no where to be found.
The Military Special Task Force ‘Operation Safe Haven’ has confirmed the incident.
Major Ishaku Takwa, the spokesperson of the Military Special Task Force of Operation Safe Haven, who confirmed the attack, revealed that officers tracked the bandits, during which the bodies of some of the victims were recovered in the bush.
Insecurity: Speak more against killings in South-East – Buhari tasks religious leaders
President Muhammadu Buhari has asked community and religious leaders to condemn and stand up against killings in the South-East.
Buhari said this in a statement by his media aide, Malam Garba Shehu, on Saturday in Abuja.
The President assured that all possible measures and investigations were being conducted to bring the perpetrators to justice.