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Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines Tuesday, July 5th 2022
Major Nigeria Newspaper headlines & Naija News Tuesday, July 5th can be accessed below.
Below are the Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines from Nigerian Newspapers today:
POLITICS AND NATIONAL NEWS
1. Strike: ASUU Finally Ready To Begin Activities, Gives FG Condition For Resumption
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the leadership of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says its members are ready to resume as soon as the federal government responds to their demands.
2. Okowa’s Senior Aide Escapes Assassination Attempt (Full Details)
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Olorogun Samuel Oghotomo, Senior Special Assistant (SSA) to the Governor of Delta State Ifeanyi Okowa has survived an assassination attempt by suspected gunmen at Ovwor in Ughelli South Local Government Area of the state.
3. Again, Akeredolu Disagrees With FG Over Perpetrators Of Owo Church Attack
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Governor Rotimi Akeredolu of Ondo State has again disagreed with the Federal Government over who should be blamed for the killing of worshipers in Owo.
4. Insecurity: 139 Clerics, Worshipers Killed, 394 Kidnapped In 18 Months – Reports
EKO HOT BLOG reports that at least 139 clerics and worshipers have been killed in various attacks across the country between January 1, 2021, and July 4, 2022.
5. NSIP: FG Trains 40 Stream 2 Independent Monitors In Ogun
Eko Hot Blog reports that in order to ensure accurate evaluation of all the government’s poverty alleviation programme, the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management and Social Development has engaged and trained about 40 Independent Monitors (IMs), stream two in Ogun State.
EKO NEWS
6. LASG To Provide Housing Unit Via PPP Model
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Lagos State Government has reaffirmed its commitment to adopting the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) model to increase the number of affordable housing units available to residents.
7. Residents In Lagos Consume N4.5bn Food Daily – Sanwo-Olu
EKO HOT BLOG reports that in addition to reiterating his commitment to food security, Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu claims that daily food expenditures in the state amount to roughly N4.5 billion.
EPE NEWS
8. 8th Constituency Stakeholders’ Meeting: Tobun Charges Constituents On PVC Collection
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the lawmaker representing Epe Constituency 1 at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon. Abiodun Tobun, has charged members of his constituency to make frantic efforts in the registration and collection of their permanent voters’ card, PVC.
9. Ogunkelu Hails Tinubu, Other Governors For Partnership With Lagos House of Assembly
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Lawmaker representing Epe Constituency II at the Lagos State House of Assembly, Hon Sylvester Oluwaseun Ogunkelu aka Sketel, has praised the legacies of former Lagos State Governor and All Progressives Congress, APC, Presidential Flagbearer, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, for the entrenchment of landmark partnerships with the Lagos State House of Assembly.
METRO
10. Islamic Cleric Sentenced To Life Imprisonment For D*filing Minor
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Justice H.O. Oshodi of the Lagos State High Court sitting at Ikeja, on Monday, sentenced an Islamic cleric, Isah Mustapha, to life imprisonment for d*filing an eight-year-old girl in the state.
INTERNATIONAL
11. Police Arrest Man Over July 4 Mass Shooting In Highland Park
EKO HOT BLOG reports that police have arrested a suspect after six people were killed at an Independence Day parade near Chicago.
12. Family Of Slain Al-Jazeera Journalist Rejects US Probe
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the family of Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh said Monday they were “incredulous” after the US reported it was not possible to determine whose gun fired the bullet which killed her.
ARTICLE
13. Alimotu Pelewura: The Story Of Woman That Led Lagos Protests
This is the story of Alimotu Pelewura, the Woman that Led the Lagos Protests – Her renowned personality, her political activism and career, protests and Legacy.
14. 4 Ways You Can Get Malaria Without Mosquito Bites
Most people are not aware of how serious and sometimes deadly malaria can be. The World Health Organization (WHO) revealed that in 2020, about 241 million cases of malaria occurred and about 627,000 persons mostly comprising of children in Africa died of malaria.
15. 5 Foods Diabetic Patients Should Consume Regularly To Reduce Blood Sugar
Even though diabetes has no cure at present, people living with this medical condition are often advised to take medications and engage in exercise to lower their blood sugar levels. However, it is vital to know that what you eat can also affect your blood sugar level.
SPORTS
16. Week 1 Pool Fixtures For Sat 9 Jul 2022 – UK 2021/2022 – Pool Agent
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the week 1 pool fixtures are for forty-nine (49) football matches for UK football 2021/2022 from the pool agent.
Top 10 Newspaper Headlines Tuesday, July 5th 2022
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Major Newspapers in Nigeria
Punch Newspaper
1. Enugu mob burns suspected ritualists, police begin probe
The Enugu State Police Command on Monday said it had launched an investigation to fish out those responsible for the alleged mobbing and setting ablaze of one Agbo Dera and Ifeanyi Ugwu (M), at Ede-Oballa Nsukka, in Nsukka Local Government Area of the state, over an alleged ritual killing.
It was gathered the duo was lynched and burnt by a mob on Monday for allegedly being involved in the killing and removal of private parts of a little girl in the community.
The PUNCH gathered that the girl, Eze Nkemdirim, aged 10, was the daughter of late Igwe Philip Ugwu of Umuidu. She went missing a few days ago and was later discovered dead with her eyes and her private parts removed.
Family sources said the girl was initially declared missing and in less than 24 hours, she was found dead with her body badly mutilated.
2. End alliance talks with Kwankwaso, group urges Obi
The Peter Obi Support Network has called for the immediate discontinuation of the negotiations and alliance between the Labour Party and the New Nigerian People’s Party.
The group said the NNPP’s presidential candidate, Rabiu Kwankwanso,’s continuous association with the Peter Obi candidacy will be a liability rather than an asset.
They said Kwakwanso’s utterances and those of his aides as well as key supporters have continued to raise eyebrows among patriotic Nigerians who are driving the Peter Obi electoral revolution out of their conviction on his competence and unquestionable patriotism.
In a statement on Monday, the Director, Strategic Communication, POSN, Onwuasoanya Jones, said the move became necessary following Kwakwanso’s recent utterances, especially when he appeared on Politics Today, on Channels Television.
3. Morocco 2022: Super Falcons lose first game to South Africa
South Africa’s Banyana Banyana have defeated Nigeria’s Super Falcons 2-1 in the opening game of Group C of the 12th Women Africa Cup of Nations on Monday.
Nine-time champions and FIFA World Cup ever-present Nigeria were also defeated by South AFrica 10 months ago and on home soil in the final match of the first edition of Aisha Buhari Women’s Tournament.
Vanguard Newspaper
4. Legalisation of Abortion in Lagos State is unacceptable – Bishop Martins
THE Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Adewale Martins has rejected the legalisation of abortion by Lagos State Governor, Mr. Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
Archbishop Martins said it was untrue that all stakeholders were consulted in the guidelines’ preparation.
Lagos state recently unveiled a 40-page policy document tagged ‘Lagos State guidelines on safe termination of pregnancy for legal indications.’
The Church therefore in a statement signed by Director of Social Communications, Lagos Archdiocese, Rev. Fr. Anthony Godonu, called on Governor Sanwo-Olu to stop the implementation of the guidelines it has made public on the process to follow for abortion in the state.
5. Get your PVC’s, end our collective misery, PDP youth leader urges Nigerians
The National Youth Leader of the Peoples Democratic Party, Muhammad Suleiman, has enjoined Nigerians especially youths to troop out, collect their Permanent Voters Cards and vote out the All Progressives Congress which he said has brought nothing but misery to citizens.
Suleiman made the appeal at a media briefing ahead of the PDP PVC collection sensitization road show, scheduled to commence in Abuja, on Tuesday.
He said, “Indeed, we can no longer deny or pretend that we are now at the start at the lowest point in our national life.
“The youth of our country have become weary of the future. It is on this note that we call on all Nigerians to go out and get their PVC because this is the only tool to unseat them, these monsters are the corridors of power.
6. Arrest Okorie, Njoku, others now, APGA chairman charges security agencies
The leadership of the All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, Monday, charged security agencies to arrest, investigate and prosecute it’s former national chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie and Chief Edozie Njoku, factional chairman of the party for what it called their “illegal and criminal conducts” in the affairs of the party.
While Njoku is laying claim to the national chairmanship of the party, Okorie emerged the Presidential candidate of APGA in a convention conducted By the Njoku-led National Working Committee, two days after Victor Oye-led executive produced Peter Umeadi as the party’s flag bearer.
In a communiqué issued at the end of the meeting of the National Working Committee, NWC of APGA at the National Secretariat Complex, Abuja, the party said the security agencies should treat with dispatch, “all issues pertaining to the unlawful activities of Chief Edozie Njoku, Chief Chekwas Okorie and their co-travellers”.
The communiqué signed by all the members of the party’s National Working Committee said they met to deliberate on salient issues and other sundry matters affecting the party in the build up to the 2023 General Elections.
The Nation Newspaper
7. Niger orders suspension of mining activities in three security-ridden LGAs
Niger state Governor, Alhaji Abubakar Sani-Bello has ordered the immediate suspension of all mining activities in Shiroro, Munya and Rafi local government areas to forestall further bandits attack.
These three local government areas have been ridden by insecurity in the state.
The Nation had reported that some terrorists attacked a mining site in Ajata Aboki Village in Shiroro Local Government Area where several security personnel and mining workers lost their lives while four Chinese Nationals and some mining workers were abducted.
In a statement signed by the Secretary to the Niger State Government, Ahmed Ibrahim Matane, the mining sites would remain closed till further notice.
8. Catholic Church denies abandoning victims of Owo terror attack
Parish Priest of St. Francis Catholic Church, Owo local government in Ondo State, Rev. Fr. Vincent Anadi, has denied social media reports that some victims of the June 5th terrorists’ attack on the church have been abandoned.
Fr. Anadi urged the public to disregard the contents of the social media reports saying it was mischievous and aimed at maligning the Government and the Church.
Four armed men had stormed the church and killed 40 persons while over 60 others suffered various degrees of injuries.
Daily Post
9. PDP crisis deepens as faction suspends deputy chairman, legal adviser, others in Borno
The crisis rocking the Borno chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) took another twist on Monday with a faction suspending the state Deputy Chairman, Bunu Satomi and the legal adviser, Mr Abdu Jidda, from the party.
A faction led by Satomi had last week suspended the state chairman, Zannah Gaddama, for anti-party activities.
But Mr Amos Adziba, the state publicity secretary of the party, said in a statement in Maiduguri on Monday that the action was null and void.
Adziba said an extraordinary meeting of the party had also suspended Satomi and Jidda from the party.
“The meeting today which was summoned by the state secretary on the directive of the state chairman and had in attendance the state chairman, secretary, members of the state working committee.
10. Interpol confirms arrest of suspected Nigerian cybercriminal in South Africa
A 28-year-old Nigerian has been arrested in relation to a cybercrime ring involved in phishing, internet, romance scams and money laundering.
The suspect, identified as James Junior Aliyu was arrested at an upmarket estate in Sandton, Johannesburg, after a takedown operation.
Members from the Interpol National Crime Bureau (NCB) in Pretoria with assistance from members of the SAPS Gauteng Highway Patrol Unit raided the upmarket estate at 10:00 on Wednesday, 29 June 2022, where they effected the arrest.
His arrest follows a widespread investigation involving law enforcement authorities from South Africa (SA) and the United States of America (USA).
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