These are the Top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Tuesday 23 August 2022, reviewed by The Informant247 Nigeria News.
‘Second Niger Bridge project 98% completed’ – FG
The Federal Government has revealed that the Second Niger Bridge project is now at 98 per cent stage of completion.
The Director, Planning and Research, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Jide Ode Martins, made this revelation in Kano, during the opening ceremony of the National Council of Works Meeting on Monday.
Nigerian governor set to renovate former Boko Haram buildings
The Borno State government has revealed its readiness to rebuild both public and residential structures in a former Boko Haram stronghold recently recaptured by the military.
The State Commissioner Ministry of Reconstruction Rehabilitation and Resettlement (MRRR), Engr. Mustapha Gubio, made this revelation after a visit to Gudumbali town, headquarters of Guzamala Local Government Area of Borno.
Police shut down civil servants’ national secretariat over worker’s protest
The National Secretariat of the Association of Senior Civil Servants of Nigeria (ASCSN) has been closed.
The secretariat situated in Lagos was closed by the police on Monday.
We’ll announce our presidential candidate during 2022 Igbo Day – Ohanaeze
The apex Igbo socio-political organization, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that it would clarify on the candidate Ndigbo would support for the 2023 general election during the 2022 Igbo Day celebration.
Police apprehend 6 suspects as APC chieftain goes missing in Osun
The police in Osun State have said it has apprehended eight suspects connected with the attack on a missing chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Alli Kazeem, in Apomu, Isokan Local Government Area of the state.
The Informant247 gathered that Kazeem is the chairman of the National Union of Road Workers (NURTW).
Terrorists killed as military bombard camp of ISWAP leader, Fiya Yuram
The Nigeria military at the weekend launched an attack on the camp of Islamic State’s West Africa Province (ISWAP) leader, Fiya Ba Yuram.
Scores of terrorists were eliminated in the raid conducted in Sambisa Forest by Nigerian Air Force (NAF) jets.
Notorious bandit leader, Bello Turji embraces peace, launches campaign against terror in Zamfara
The notorious bandit kingpin, Bello Turji, has finally embraced the peace initiative of the Zamfara State government as part of efforts to end banditry.
Reports have it that this was confirmed by the Deputy Governor of Zamfara State, Senator Hassan Nasiha.
Nasiha made the disclosure during a press conference at the weekend on the security situation in Gusau, organised by the Students’ Union of Medina University.
You’re breeder of terrorists, IPoB attacks Miyetti Allah
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPoB, weekend, fires back at the Miyetti Allah Cattle Breeders Association of Nigeria, MACBAN.
IPOB has claimed that the herders’ group is a known architect and breeder of many terrorist groups victimizing the country since the inception of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015.
IPOB made this revelation in reaction to a statement by one of MACBAN’s leaders, Saleh Alhassan, connecting the group with Obedient Movement.
ASUU Strike: CSOs back FG on no-work-no-pay policy
The Nigerian Project Initiative (NPI) and the Initiative to Save Democracy (ISD) yesterday described as hollow, self-centred and vexatious, the demand by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) for payment of members’ salaries for the six months the union has been on strike.
The federal government had last week rejected the union’s demand and noted that that was the only thing stalling the negotiation with the striking university lecturers.
Register our union now – ASUU’s rival, CONUA tells FG
The Congress of University Academics, CONUA, has called on the Federal Government to, without further delay, register and recognise it as an academic staff union in the university system in Nigeria.
This, the union said, had become necessary as it had met all conditions required for it to be so registered.
