Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The Federal Government says it would meet the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, on Monday, in a desperate move to avert the warning strike scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday.
However, the labour union has vowed there was no going back on the two-day warning strike but says it remained open to negotiations with the government despite breaking its previous promises.
2. President Bola Tinubu has directed the recall of all Nigerian Ambassadors in foreign lands. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday
The statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Al-Kashim Abdul-Kadir, said the directive applied to all career and non-career ambassadors, noting that the envoys were expected to return to the country by October 31, 2023.
3. A report by the Central Bank of Nigeria has revealed that the Federal Government’s expenditure exceeded its revenue by N1.43tn in the first three months of 2023.
The CBN revealed in its economic report for the third quarter of 2023, that this was 9.6 per cent higher than the last quarter of 2022 figure.
4. The Department of State Services has allegedly detained a Deputy Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Kingsley Obiora.
The CBN Deputy Governor is said to have spent four nights in the custody of the DSS. He is being grilled in connection with allegations of financial mismanagement under the leadership of the suspended CBN Governor, Godwin Emefiele.
5. The rift between Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State and his Deputy, Philip Shaibu, has allegedly degenerated further. There are claims that plans to relocate Shaibu to a building outside the Government House, are in progress.
The office for the Deputy Governor is said to be situated at No. 7, Dennis Osadebey Avenue, close to the Government House.
6. Three days after taking over the government, the Gabonese military junta on Saturday, announced the reopening of the country’s borders.
The Gabonese Army had shut down the borders during Wednesday’s military coup which ousted President Ali Bongo.
7. The presiding Bishop of the Christ Vessels of Grace Church Inc, Kayode Williams has said there would be no coup d’etat in the country. The cleric claimed that the strident calls for coup were being mooted by those with a poor sense of history.
He said this against the backdrop of the recent coups in Niger and Gabon, both within West and Central Africa.
8. Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has described as both false and fake, the alarm raised by the leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party in the state that his government was planning to embark on a protest over the expected decision of the governorship election petition tribunal sitting in the state.
Otti in a statement issued by his Senior Special Adviser on Media, Mr. Ferdinand Ekeoma on Saturday, said the PDP was being jittery and fabricating such reports with the intent of misleading the general public.
9. The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, Mele Kyari, has said the country’s oil production had ramped up to 1.6 million barrels per day, bpd, as of last Wednesday.
This figure rose from a very poor position of less than one million bpd some months ago. Kyari, who disclosed this at a media briefing in Abuja on Saturday, however, added that petrol consumption had declined by 30 per cent following the removal of subsidy by President Bola Tinubu.
10. Four siblings have been reported dead following the collapse of a building at Mgbemena, Coal Camp, Enugu North local government area of Enugu State on Friday.
The Chairman of the Enugu Capital Territory Development Agency (ECTDA), Uche Anya, who visited the scene of the collapse, expressed his condolences.
