Nigerian newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Wednesday morning
1. The Independent National Electoral Commission has fixed the governorship elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states for November 2. Festus Okoye, chairman of INEC’s information and voters education committee, announced this on Tuesday evening.
3. Troops in Damaturu, the Yobe State capital, Tuesday engaged in a fierce battle with suspected Boko Haram terrorists who attempted to infiltrate the state capital late Tuesday evening. Report claims that the suspected terrorists, who came in their numbers, attempted to sneak into the metropolis through Maisandari axis, a community located at the eastern fringes of the city, but were stopped by the troops.
5. Buhari Media Organisation, BMO, has urged the Department of State Security, DSS, to investigate the former Vice President Abubakar Atiku’s unholy romance with foreign bodies especially the United States of America, in pursuit of his allegedly stolen mandate to succeed incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari. BMO also accused Atiku of seeking to destabilise the country in a bid to realise his failed ambition to be President.
7. The police in Rivers State on Tuesday said that cultists and thugs that had lost patronage from politicians were behind the upsurge in killings in the State. DSP Nnamdi Omoni, the command’s Police Public Relations Officer , made the disclosure. He stated that the killings were not strange to the police as politicians who had armed the cultists and thugs had now turned their backs on them.
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