Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian
Newspapers
1. Operatives of the Department of State Service Saturday
raided the office of the National Pension Commission (PenCom) in Abuja
following the refusal of the former Director General of the commission, Mrs
Chinelo Anohu- Amazu, to hand over to her successor.
The DSS has ordered that she appears in the office on
Monday.
2. The death has been announced of veteran Nollywood actor,
Olumide Bakare. He died in the early hours of Saturday after being bed-ridden
for more than a year.
3. In another sad development, renowned writer and author of
Eze Goes to School, Onuorah Nzekwu has passed away. The literary icon passed on
at the age of 89, Friday night.
4. Over 800 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC)
in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom, on Saturday defected to the Peoples
Democratic Party (PDP).
Leading the defectors to the PDP, the APC Chairman in the
council area, Mr Aniefiok Ekah, said that the defectors had endured severe
hunger in APC and could therefore no longer continue to tolerate such.
5. Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes
Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has revealed that the anti-graft agency has
recovered over N17billion in the last four months.
The Acting EFCC chairman said they recovered
N521,815,000.00, $53,272 747.00, £122,890.00, and €547,730.00.
6. The senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district,
Senator Dino Melaye has claimed that Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, is
planning to assassinate him, for fighting for the state’s workers and
pensioners.
The Senator said workers and pensioners in Kogi were
suffering and dying, following the non-payment of 15-month salaries and
pensions by Governor Bello.
7. President Muhammadu Buhari has asserted that the war
against Boko Haram insurgency in the North East, is not over until the
remaining Chibok girls are found and returned to their parents.
Buhari, who spoke while inducting the two newly purchased
Russian Mi-35M attack helicopters, said the military would not rest until they
brought back the remaining Chibok girls.
8. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will
begin distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in Lagos State on April 29.
Femi Akinbiyi, Head of Publicity and Protocol, INEC in
Lagos, said in a statement that the step was important, especially in
preparation for the July 22 local government elections in the state.
9. The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB,
Nnamdi Kanu, has declared that the “tyrannical government” of the President
Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, must be stopped.
Speaking through the spokesperson of IPOB, Emma Powerful,
the incarcerated agitator on Friday said there was no more space for tyranny
and repressive government in Nigeria and Africa.
10. The presidential committee investigating the discovery
of $43.4m by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Osborne
Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, has written to suspended Secretary to the Government of
the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal and the Director General of the
National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayo Oke.
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