Good Morning! Here are today’s top highlights from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. A Federal High Court sitting in Warri, Delta State, on Friday, ordered the Inspector General of Police, Kayode Egbetokun to stop the implementation of the policy on tinted glass permit. The court ordered the IGP to suspend the process pending the hearing and determination of the matter before it.
2. The division within the Anglican Communion continued on Friday as Anglicans under the banner of Global Anglican Future Conference, GAFCON, have rejected the new Archbishop of Canterbury, Bishop Dame Sarah Mullally. They accused Mullally of promoting ideals that are against the Bible.
3. Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Friday disclosed that Boko Haram terrorists once nominated his successor, the late ex-President Muhammadu Buhari as their negotiator. He made the disclosure at the public presentation of a book authored by former Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor (retd.), in Abuja, and wondered why Buhari could not end the insurgency.
4. A Canadian lawmaker, Andrew Scheer has alleged that 7,000 Christians have been killed this year in Nigeria, with over 3.5 million displaced, and three churches destroyed every day. Scheer, who represents Regina–Qu’Appelle in Canada’s House of Commons, said Boko Haram and allied militias were carrying out a genocidal campaign that has left thousands dead and millions displaced.
5. Several years after, the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Dioceses, Bishop Mathew Hassan Kukah, has disclosed that most elderly Northerners are still angry over the assassinations of Sardauna of Sokoto, Ahmadu Bello and Nigerian Prime Minister, Tafawa Balewa. The fiery cleric disclosed this during an interview on Arise Television's programme, noting that most Northerners in their 70s and 80s are yet to forgive the assassinations of these two Nigerian founding fathers.
6. Malam Garba Shehu, spokesman to the late former President Muhammadu Buhari, has accused ex-president Goodluck Jonathan of lying against Buhari to win the 2027 presidential election. Jonathan had disclosed that Buhari was chosen as their negotiator by Boko Haram insurgents. However, Shehu said the former president was lying.
7. Eight shops have been put on hold by the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC. The shops, located at the Wuse market in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, faced the sanctions for selling aphrodisiac sex enhancement pills, popularly called kayanmata. The agency also sealed two Chinese supermarkets within the FCT for selling goods that are yet to be approved in Nigeria.
8. Supporters of Mr Peter Obi, popularly known as the Obidient Movement, have told former vice president, Atiku Abubakar that Obi will not participate in a dollarized presidential primary. They were responding to Atiku, a member of the African Democratic Congress, ADC, after he said that he would only support a younger candidate who emerged through a transparent primary.
9. Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu, has described the demolition of buildings at the Lagos Trade Fair Complex as heartbreaking. He spoke on Friday during President Bola Tinubu’s visit to Abia State for the commissioning of projects executed by the Governor Alex Otti administration. Kalu said the exercise “makes our hearts bleed.”
10. Abia State governor, Alex Otti, has hinted that the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, will soon regain his freedom. Otti spoke during a one-day official visit to the state by President Bola Tinubu, who was represented by the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi. He said, “I can assure you that I am engaging with Mr President. He is favourably disposed to it, and I am sure that in no distant future, Nnamdi Kanu will regain his freedom.”
