Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers
1. Operatives of the Department of State Service Saturday raided the office of the National Pension Commission (PenCom) in Abuja following the refusal of the former Director General of the commission, Mrs Chinelo Anohu- Amazu, to hand over to her successor.
The DSS has ordered that she appears in the office on Monday.
2. The death has been announced of veteran Nollywood actor, Olumide Bakare. He died in the early hours of Saturday after being bed-ridden for more than a year.
3. In another sad development, renowned writer and author of Eze Goes to School, Onuorah Nzekwu has passed away. The literary icon passed on at the age of 89, Friday night.
4. Over 800 members of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Nsit Ubium Local Government Area, Akwa Ibom, on Saturday defected to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).
Leading the defectors to the PDP, the APC Chairman in the council area, Mr Aniefiok Ekah, said that the defectors had endured severe hunger in APC and could therefore no longer continue to tolerate such.
5. Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Ibrahim Magu, has revealed that the anti-graft agency has recovered over N17billion in the last four months.
The Acting EFCC chairman said they recovered N521,815,000.00, $53,272 747.00, £122,890.00, and €547,730.00.
6. The senator representing Kogi West Senatorial district, Senator Dino Melaye has claimed that Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, is planning to assassinate him, for fighting for the state’s workers and pensioners.
The Senator said workers and pensioners in Kogi were suffering and dying, following the non-payment of 15-month salaries and pensions by Governor Bello.
7. President Muhammadu Buhari has asserted that the war against Boko Haram insurgency in the North East, is not over until the remaining Chibok girls are found and returned to their parents.
Buhari, who spoke while inducting the two newly purchased Russian Mi-35M attack helicopters, said the military would not rest until they brought back the remaining Chibok girls.
8. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will begin distribution of Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) in Lagos State on April 29.
Femi Akinbiyi, Head of Publicity and Protocol, INEC in Lagos, said in a statement that the step was important, especially in preparation for the July 22 local government elections in the state.
9. The leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu, has declared that the “tyrannical government” of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led All Progressives Congress, APC, must be stopped.
Speaking through the spokesperson of IPOB, Emma Powerful, the incarcerated agitator on Friday said there was no more space for tyranny and repressive government in Nigeria and Africa.
10. The presidential committee investigating the discovery of $43.4m by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) in Osborne Towers, Ikoyi, Lagos, has written to suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir David Lawal and the Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ambassador Ayo Oke.
