These are the Top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Sunday 7 August 2022, reviewed by The Informant247 Nigeria News.
Man escapes as gunmen kidnap 4-year-old son in Ekiti
A four-year-old boy, Oluwadarasimi Omojola, has been reportedly kidnapped along Itaji/Ijelu Ekiti in Oye Local Government Area, Ekiti State, on Saturday evening.
The Owajumu of Omu Ekiti, Oba Gabriel Ogundeyi, who confirmed the incident through a telephone conversation with newsmen said the incident occurred around six o’clock in the evening.
ASUU strike: I now sell potatoes, says UniUyo lecturer\
Christiana Pam, a lecturer at the University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, says to survive the ongoing strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), she is now into the petty trade of selling potatoes.
On February 14, ASUU embarked on a four-week warning strike. The union extended the industrial action by another two months on March 14, to allow the government to meet all of its demands. A 12-week extension was announced on May 9.
I’ll defend, retain my victory – Osun governor-elect, Adeleke
The Osun governor-elect, Ademola Adeleke has vowed to defend and retain his electoral victory before the election petition tribunal.
This is as he declared that his emergence as governor-elect was entrenched in total compliance with the law and will of the people.
Nigerian troops capture seven terrorists, kidnappers, rescue two victims
Troops of Operations Whirl Stroke and Safe Haven have captured seven terrorists and bandits and also rescued two kidnapped victims in different operations across Nasarawa, Kaduna and Plateau States.
The Director, Defence Media Operations, Major General Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this in a statement on Friday.
Osun guber poll: Oyetola hires 50 lawyers to challenge Adeleke’s certificate, victory
Governor Adegboyega Oyetola of Osun State on Friday asked the Election Petition Tribunal in Osogbo to nullify the election of the governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, Ademola Adeleke.
According to the governor, the election was fraught with certain irregularities.
He also said that Adeleke ought not to have been declared winner as he was not qualified to have contested the election in the first place, having submitted a forged certificate to the Independent National Electoral Commission.