Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to Editor roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Sunday, 5th May 2024.
1. The Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, on Saturday, urged prayers by Nigerians for the country and its leaders to be able to overcome the problems confronting the country. He said the current socio-political problems in the country were not peculiar to Nigeria and would be overcome with prayers and support of the generality of the people.
2. Archbishop Uka Uka Osim of the Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, his wife, Anne Osim and son, Roland Uka Osim, have been kidnapped. They and three other clergymen of Brotherhood of the Cross and Star, were abducted in Abia State on May 1, 2024.
3. Gunmen have killed Malam Kabiru Mohammed, the village head of Marke in Dandamisa Ward, Makarfi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. It was gathered that the gunmen, suspected to be hired killers, entered the residence of the victim at about 12:30 am on Thursday and sent everyone out of the compound.
4. DStv and GOtv customers in Nigeria have been notified to expect disruption in service from Sunday, May 5, to Tuesday, May 7, due to the ongoing construction project on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. In a notice shared on social media on Friday, DStv assured customers that its technical team will be working to relocate its facility and minimise service disruptions during the process.
5. A woman, her toddler and a motorcyclist popularly known as Okada rider were reportedly involved in a car accident on the Festac Link Bridge in the Ammuo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State on Saturday night. It was gathered that the incident occurred at about 11:00pm. The victims were unconscious when they were rushed to the hospital.
6. Gunmen suspected to be bandits have reportedly killed three villagers in the Ogbaulu community of Agatu Local Government Area of Benúe State. A local who disclosed this on Saturday said that the victims were working on their separate farms on Friday afternoon when the bandits attacked them.
7. Organised Labour, weekend, fired back at state governors, warning them against inflammatory utterances that could set the nation’s industrial space on fire over the new national minimum wage. It faulted the statement credited to the governors through the Nigerian Governors’ Forum, NGF, that they were working on what individual states could sustainably pay
8. Abia State Governor, Dr. Alex Otti, has said that a “real” airport would soon be built in the state to ease the movement of goods and services. Otti who disclosed this while receiving the Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Hon Benjamin Kalu, in his country home, said he had already held a meeting with the Minister of Aviation in this regard.
9. The National Secretary of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Ajibola Basiru, has accused the presidential candidate of the New Nigeria People’s Party, NNPP, Rabiu Kwankwaso of fuelling the purported call for the removal of the National Chairman of APC, Abdullahi Ganduje. Basiru said the call for the removal is a ‘mere circus’ orchestrated by Kwankwaso and his ‘dying’ party, NNPP.
10. The lawmaker representing Abakaliki North Constituency in Ebonyi State House of Assembly, Hon Victor Nwoke has dumped the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for the All Progressives Congress, APC. The lawmaker joined APC with his supporters. He said the intractable crises in PDP forced him out of the party.
