Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines Wednesday, October 5th 2022

Major Nigeria Newspaper headlines & Naija News Today, Wednesday, October 5th, 2022 can be accessed below.

Below are the Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines from Nigerian Newspapers today:

POLITICS AND NATIONAL NEWS

1. 2023: Adamu Absent As Tinubu Campaign Council Reviews Membership List

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the membership list of the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC) was reviewed behind closed doors by the strategic planning committee of the council on Tuesday in Abuja.

2. 2023: Lalong, Akeredolu, Other APC Govs Hold Meeting In Abuja

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Director General of the Tinubu-Shettima Campaign Council, Simon Lalong is currently meeting.

3. PDP: A Northerner Will Take Over If Ayu Resigns –Former Secretary Confirms

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a former National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Emmanuel Agbo, on Tuesday, claimed that a northerner would take over if Iyorchia Ayu decides to resign as the National Chairman of the party.

4. PDP Crisis: BoT, Wike’s Meeting Full Details Emerge

Members of the Peoples Democratic Party’s Board of Trustees (BoT) met with Rivers State Governor Nyesom Ezenwo Wike on Tuesday at Government House in Port Harcourt in an effort to find a long-term resolution to the crisis engulfing the PDP.

5. Ethiopian Embassy Bans Visa On Arrival For Nigerians

Eko Hot Blog reports that in a release issued on Tuesday by the embassy, passengers are to obtain their Visa at the Ethiopian embassy in Abuja before embarking on any trip to the country.

6. Smart City: Lagos Speeds Up Infrastructural Digital Development

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Olusola Sanwo-Olu has stated his administration’s commitment to improving the provision of adequate infrastructure to fast-track the Smart City Project to optimise the limitless opportunity of a fully digitised economy.

7. Southern Governors’ Wives Visit Lagos, Laud Cowlso’s School Project In Ogombo

The Southern Governors Wives’ Forum (SGWF) on Monday visited Ogombo Community in the Ajah area of Lagos State to inspect the level of work on the ongoing Secondary School project by the Committee of Wives of Lagos State Officials (COWLSO) as part of activities lined up for the SGWF Quarterly Meeting being hosted by Lagos State.

8. Lagos Police Rescue Four Suspects From Mob Action In Surulere

Police operatives attached to Surulere Division have rescued 50-year-old Olatunde Ayinde, 48-year-old Babatunde Ogunsemi, 49-year-old Oludare Olusegun and 41-year-old Sunday Ebifega from a mob attack.

9. Lagos Gov, NCC, Others Canvass Infrastructure Development To Boost Economy

Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, yesterday, reiterated the state’s commitment to improve its infrastructure to fast-track smart city project, as well as optimise the limitless opportunities a fully-digitised economy provides.

10. RTEAN Urges Sanwo-olu To Unseal Lagos Premises, Faults Action

The national leadership of the Road Transport Employers’ Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) has urged Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to unseal its premises in Lagos State, assuring to reconcile warring members constitutionally.

11. Elon Musk Makes U-turn, Proposes To Buy Twitter At Original Price

Eko Hot Blog reports that billionaire business mogul, Elon Musk, has made a U-turn in his efforts to buy Twitter.

12. War: Russian Army Maps Show Major Retreats In Ukraine’s Kherson Region

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Russian defence ministry maps show rapid pullbacks in the key Kherson region amid Ukraine army’s counteroffensive.

13. 4 Medical Problems Regular Intake Of Salty Foods Can Cause

Do you know that there are certain medical problems regular intake or salty foods may cause to the body?

14. Antony Ignored Erik Ten Hag’s Defensive Instructions During Man Utd’s Defeat To Man City

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Manchester United news signing, Antony, reportedly ignored defensive instructions from Erik ten Hag during United’s 6-3 defeat to Manchester City on Sunday, according to reports.

15. What Potter Said About Ronaldo’s Move To Chelsea In January

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Chelsea manager, Graham Potter, has remained coy on the club’s interest in signing Cristiano Ronaldo from Manchester United.

16. Tuchel Turns Down Top Managerial Job After Chelsea Sacking

EKO HOT BLOG reports that ex-Chelsea boss, Thomas Tuchel has rejected an approach from Bayer Leverkusen, according to reports in Germany.

17. Week 13 Pool Result For Sat 1 Oct 2022 – UK 2022/2023 – Pool Agent

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the week 13 pool results are for forty-nine (49) football matches for UK football 2021/2022 from the pool agent.

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Major Newspapers in Nigeria

PUNCH NEWSPAPER

1. Lagos resident caught stealing car with towing van

A yet-to-be-identified man has been arrested for allegedly attempting to use a towing van to steal a black Camry in the Abule Egba area of Lagos State.

PUNCH Metro gathered that the faulty car was parked outside the premises of a building in the Exalted Community Development Association, Abule Egba.

In a bid to perpetrate the crime, the suspect, who was said to have pretended to own the faulty car, approached operators of a towing vehicle to assist him in towing the vehicle to the Kantangura Market in Abule Egba for repairs.

The operators, before agreeing to tow the car, however, demanded the key and vehicle documents.

2. Reps direct FG to repair Warri-Agbor roads

The House of Representatives has urged the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing to embark on the reconstruction of the Warri-Sapele-Benin and Sapele-Agbor roads, while also urging the Inspector-General of Police, Usman Baba, to deploy more men to the roads to protect citizens from being attacked.

The House made the call at the plenary on Tuesday following the unanimous adoption of a motion jointly moved by two members, Ben Igbakpa, and Anthony Afe, titled, ‘Need to Reconstruct Warri-Sapele-Benin and Sapele-Amukpe to Agbor roads in Delta State.’

In the motion presented by Igbakpa, the lawmakers noted that the importance of road infrastructure in socio-economic development could not be over-emphasised, thereby reiterating the need to reconstruct the “parlous” Warri-Sapele-Benin and Sapele-Amukpe- Agbor roads that serve Edo, Delta, Bayelsa and Rivers states, with other South-South states in particular and Nigeria in general.

According to the lawmakers, the major road of about 104.5km distance was constructed 27 years ago and is the most preferred route for articulated vehicles used for oil and gas haulage operating from Delta State to other parts of Nigeria.

3. Abiodun welcomes Amusan with multi-million naira house, N5m

The Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, on Tuesday announced a cash reward of N5m and a house to world, Commonwealth and African 100m hurdles champion Oluwatobi Amusan.

The Governor also named Amusan an Ogun State Sports Ambassador.

Abiodun, in a statement issued by his Chief Press Secretary, Kunle Somorin, stated, “So, you (Amusan) will be our Sports Ambassador; I am happy that you said you are not from any other state. You are from Ogun and not from Lagos and you want to come back home. We also want to ensure that you come back home. We want to assure you that as you come back home, you have a home here in the state. So, in view of that, we are also going to be presenting to you a home in Ijebu-Ode. On top of that, we will be giving you a small token, we will be donating to you the sum of N5m.”

Abiodun noted that his administration was on course to giving the Ijebu-Ode Stadium the necessary facelift it needed.

VANGUARD NEWSPAPER

4. Prioritise children’s care, stem tide of sexual abuse, govt, parents told

With statistics showing that 1 in 4 girls and 1 in 10 boys would be abused before age 18 in Nigeria, Cece Yara Foundation has called on the government at all levels, and parents man guardians to prioritise children’s care to stem the tide of sexual abuse among them.

To this end, the Foundation last week in Lagos trained over 100 Patient and Proprietary Medicine Vendors (PPMVs) as first medical responders in Lagos.

Speaking during the training tagged: “Building the Capacity of Health Workers on Response and Care to Survivors of Sex and Gender-based Violence”, the Chief Executive Director, Cece Yara Foundation, Adetutu Ajigbodun also stressed the need to make sexual abusers understand the consequences of their actions.

5. Experts worry over rising heart failure cases in Middle East, Africa

Experts have called for urgent action to stop and reverse the steep rise in heart failure occurring across the Middle East and Africa, MEA even as it said the Middle East and Africa parades the lowest age for heart failure globally.

Handing down the warning, in their publication in the Journal of the Saudi Heart Association, a group of regional experts, who collectively outlined the primary gaps in awareness, diagnosis and prevention of heart failure in the region agreed on a set of recommendations for policymakers to take forward.

The experts’ paper highlighted that heart failure is associated with significant morbidity and mortality and considerably impacts patients’ quality of life, as well as incurring a substantial economic burden, with a total estimated cost of US $1.92 Billion.

It further noted that the average age a person will develop heart failure in the MEA region is significantly lower than elsewhere: Africa (53 years), the Middle East (56.4 years), North Africa (58.79 years), Asia (60 years) and Europe (70 years).1-3

6. Over 67% of women in Nigeria’re anaemic —UNICEF

The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, yesterday said over 67 percent of women in Nigeria are anaemic.

UNICEF Nutrition Specialist, Mrs Ngozi Onuora who made the disclosure during a five day ‘Community of Practice workshop on Building Capacity to Mainstream Nutrition into the Investment Agenda, lamented the effect of malnutrition on the overall health and wellbeing of the mother and child.

While speaking on the objective of the workshop and the ‘Effective Management of First 1,000 days Window of Opportunity for Every Child – Strategic Preventive Option’, Mrs Onuora noted that the issue of malnutrition is multi-layered, emphasising that the nutrition of the mother and child in the first 1,000 days of the baby’s life starting from the first nine months in the womb and two years after birth remains critical to the well being of the mother and child.