Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers, September 16, 2024:

1. The Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited (NNPCL) has insisted that it paid N898 per litre for the purchase of petrol from the Dangote Refinery. Olufemi Soneye, Chief Corporate Communications Officer of NNPC Ltd, stated this while responding to a statement from the refinery.

2. Kidnappers of a hotel owner, his manager and a guest abducted in Gauraka community in Tafa LGA of Niger State have shot them dead after collecting N25 million ransom. It was learnt that two vigilantes from the community, Abubakar Muhammad and Ibrahim Garba, who took the ransom to the kidnappers, were equally killed by the bandits.

3. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned to Abuja after his official visits to the Republic of China and the United Kingdom. The President returned to the country at about 10:40pm, on Sunday.

4. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday said he visited ex-Military President, Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida in Minna, Niger State, to felicitate with him on his birthday. A statement signed by his Media Aide, Kehinde Akinyemi, explained that Obasanjo could not pay a visit to IBB last month “because of his busy schedules outside the country.”

5. Telecommunications operators are expected to start disconnecting mobile telephone lines that are not linked to National Identification Numbers following the expiration of the September 14 deadline set by the Nigerian Communications Commission. The NCC said in a statement in August that it expected that no SIM card would remain active without a verified NIN from September 15.

6. Ahead of the 2027 general elections, leaders from the Ogoni and Oyigbo zones in Rivers State are seeking a replacement for incumbent Governor Siminalayi Fubara. They converged on Nonwa in the Tai Local Government Area of Rivers State on Saturday at an event tagged “Ogoni, Oyigbo People’s Assembly.”

7. The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors has described as insensitive the Federal Government’s threat to deduct seven days’ pay from doctors’ salaries for going on strike to demand the rescue of their colleague kidnapped in December 2023. The Vice President II of NARD and Chairman of the NARD Medical Education Committee, Dr. Kefas Wida, who spoke on Sunday, added that doctors were unmoved by the pay deduction threat.

8. About 281 inmates escaped from the correctional center in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital following the recent flooding in the state. The Nigerian Correctional Service, while confirming the number of escaped inmates on Sunday, revealed that about seven of them have so far been recaptured and returned to custody.

9. Popular human rights activist, Omoyele Sowore has said that the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS) briefly detained him and seized his passport on Sunday. The Publisher of Sahara Reporters said this in an X post, describing the seizure of his travel document as “reckless”.

10. Flights across airports in the country may be grounded on Wednesday, September 18, as air traffic controllers are set to protest the 50 per cent deduction made by the Federal Government from the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) of aviation agencies. The National President of the Nigerian Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA), Abayomi Agoro, said in a statement that the critical activities of Nigeria’s aviation sector are ‘slowly grinding to a halt, reaching levels that are unacceptable.’

SOURCE: DAILY POST