Good morning Nigeria, welcome to the Editor roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Friday, 11th August 2023.
1. The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) has ordered the chief of defense staff committee to immediately activate its standby force. President of ECOWAS, Omar Alieu Touray, gave the order while reading the resolution taken at the extraordinary meeting on the Niger coup in Abuja on Thursday.
2. The Niger junta which overthrew the government of President Mohamed Bazoum has reportedly threatened to kill him should the Economic Community of West African States attempt any military intervention to restore democracy in the francophone country. The junta revealed their dark plot to murder the deposed president to a top United States diplomat.
3. The man who jumped into the lagoon at the Lekki-Ikoyi Link Bridge area of Lagos on Tuesday has been identified as Buka Abana. This is just as rescue workers succeeded in retrieving Abana’s corpse on Thursday after days of searching. It was learnt that the 30-year-old, believed to be a drug addict, had left his Lekki Phase I residence about two days before the incident.
4. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), on Thursday, attributed the continuous fall of Naira against dollars to present unofficial diaspora remittances. The acting governor of the apex bank, Folashodun Shonubi, stated this at the National Institute for Security Studies, Abuja.
5. The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shuaibu, on Thursday, debunked the claim that he is planning to leave the Peoples Democratic Party to join the All Progressives Congress. His Chief Press Secretary, Musa Ebomhiana, in a statement on Thursday, described the claim as the handiwork of mischief makers who are bent on widening the rift between the deputy governor and Governor Godwin Obaseki.
6. The National and State House of Assembly elections petition tribunal in Kano has nullified the election of Muktar Umar Yerima of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP). The three-man panel of the tribunal led by Justice I.P. Chima held that Yerima was not qualified, having forged his primary school certificate.
7. Niger’s military junta has appointed 21 ministers that will form a cabinet to work with the transitional Prime Minister, Ali Mahaman Lamine Zeine. The coupists made this known in a televised broadcast on Wednesday night, despite pressure from foreign countries that the ousted President Mohamed Bazoum should be reinstated.
8. Nigerians will pay N107,500 for International English Language Testing System examinations from September 2023. This was announced in a statement by the British Council on Thursday. The United Kingdom requires citizens of any country willing to relocate to the UK for work or study opportunities to take the IELTS.
9. A man in Adamawa State, Ayuba Danbaki has been arrested by the police for allegedly killing his two-year-old daughter. The suspect, who admitted to the crime, said he acted under the influence of alcohol (Burukutu). Danbaki, 35, was alleged to have strangled the toddler to death after her mother took the daughter to him at a local joint at Rigi in Ga’anda District, Gombi Local Government Area.
10. A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, adjourned till August 15, 2023, to hear the application by suspended Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mr Godwin Emefiele, seeking to stop his prosecution by the Federal Government. The court will, on the same day, hear the application by the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Justice seeking leave to appeal the bail granted Emefiele by the court.
