Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has criticised President Bola Tinubu over his comment that borrowing is not leprosy, describing the position as “absolute nonsense”. Speaking at an event on Friday, Obasanjo hit the president hard, maintaining that leprosy can only destroy one person at a time while debt destroys generations.
2. Presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Peter Obi, has accused President Bola Ahmed Tinubu of borrowing nearly $100 billion without being able to give an account for it. Speaking in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, during the homecoming of the national leader of the party, Senator Seriake Dickson, and the commissioning of the party secretariat, on Friday, Obi urged Nigerians to change the All Progressives Congress, APC, government.
3. Troops conducting internal security operations across the country killed more than 217 terrorists and other armed criminals in October, the Defence Headquarters, DHQs, has said. The operations, conducted between September 30 and October 30, also led to the rescue of hundreds of kidnapped victims, the arrest of suspected terrorists and their collaborators, and the surrender of more than 50 terrorist fighters and their family members.
4. A businessman, Akinbolusere Kayode, popularly known as Tolufe, has allegedly committed suicide at Igba town in Ondo State, after lamenting his personal and business challenges in a video that has gone viral on social media. Akinbolusere, 46, reportedly died in his office beside BOVAS Petrol Station, Igba Town, at about 3 pm on Thursday. The State Police Command confirmed his death in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Jimoh Abayomi, in Akure on Friday evening.
5. Omoyele Sowore, presidential candidate of the African Action Congress, AAC, and the Ekiti State Police Command have given conflicting accounts of an incident at a restaurant in Ado-Ekiti, Ekiti State, on Friday. While Sowore insisted that he and members of his team were violently attacked, the police described the incident as an altercation with some individuals, saying the activist sustained a minor injury.
6. The Federal Capital Territory Police Command has arrested a pastor, Edwin Nwabueze, and another suspect, Sadiq Jamiu, over the alleged theft of a Toyota Camry in Abuja. The vehicle was reportedly stolen at UTC Plaza in the Garki area of the Federal Capital Territory. The police said Nwabueze, who identified himself as a pastor with Salvation Power Bible Ministry in the North Bank area of Benue State, was arrested, following investigations into the theft.
7. The All Progressives Congress in Adamawa State has lost over 5,000 members to the Allied Peoples Movement. The defections came barely 24 hours after the inauguration of the party’s campaign team headed by Governor Ahmadu Fintiri. Abdulrahman Haske, who defected from the APC, is the governorship candidate of the APM.
8. Senator Adams Oshiomhole has defended President Bola Tinubu’s decision not to attend every campaign rally ahead of the 2027 general elections. He insisted that there is no contradiction between the President’s religious activities and his responsibility to govern the country. Oshiomhole said Tinubu’s decision to limit his participation in campaign activities was a matter of choice and the prerogative of the ruling All Progressives Congress.
9. The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, Kano State Command, has busted an illegal diesel refining site at Panisau, Ungoggo Local Government Area of Kano State, leading to the arrest of five suspects. This was disclosed on Friday in a statement signed by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Ibrahim Abdullahi.
10. Troops of Joint Task Force North West Operation Fansan Yamma have neutralised three terrorists and recovered arms, a motorcycle and cattle in Kaduna and Kano States. The Acting Media Information Officer, Joint Task Force North West Operation Fansan Yamma, Capt. Tamuno Sinivie, disclosed this in a statement made available to the reporters in Kaduna on Friday.
Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know Saturday morning
