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10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers, Friday morning, September 3, 2021

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Top 10 stories from Nigerian newspapers

These 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers will interest you

1. Trouble in APC as court suspends Gov Buni as party’s interim national chairman, stops LG Congress

A Delta State High Court sitting in Asaba, on Wednesday, sacked the Governor of Yobe State, Mai Mala Buni, as the Chairman, Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC). Read more

2. Kogi govt threatens to sue EFCC

The Kogi State government has threatened to take legal action against the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) over an alleged N20 billion salary bailout funds said to be in fixed deposit at a commercial bank by the state government. Read more

3. Grazing routes will end farmers/herders conflict – Bagudu

The Kebbi State Governor, Atiku Bagudu, said on Thursday mapping out grazing routes would end the herdsmen/farmers’ conflict in the country. Read more

4. Troops arrest 81 bandits, rescue 33 victims in North-West

Troops of Operation Hadarin Daji have arrested at least 81 bandits, their collaborators and other criminal elements across the North-West in the last three weeks. Read more

5. Akwa Ibom gov, Emmanuel, seeks upward review of states’ allocations

The Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Udom Emmanuel, on Thursday, called for the upward review of the revenue allocation to states by the Federal Government, to boost economic growth and enhance industrialisation in the country. Read more

Read also: 10 top stories from Nigerian newspapers, Thursday morning, September 2, 2021

6. Naira in all-time low, exchanges for N530/$ at parallel market

The Nigerian currency, naira has hit an all-time low after exchanging for N530/$ at the parallel market on Thursday. Read more

7. 27.4m Nigerians earn less than N100,000 a year -SERAP

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) declared in Lagos on Thursday that 27.4 million Nigerians earn below N100,000 per annum. Read more

8. Police rescue five abducted Zamfara college students

Police operatives in Zamfara on Thursday rescued five abducted students of the Government Day Secondary School in Kaya, Maradun local government area of the state. Read more

9. Offa Poly student to spend one year in jail for cybercrime

Justice Sikiru Oyinloye of the Kwara State High Court sitting in Ilorin on Thursday, sentenced one Olaleye Rosheed, a student of Federal Polytechnic, Offa, to one-year imprisonment over offences bordering on attempted cheating and internet fraud. Read more

10. Nigerian Paralympians get heroic welcome from Dare, Amokachi

Youth and Sports Development Minister Sunday Dare and the Special Assistant on Sports to President Buhari, Daniel Amokachi led the rousing welcome for the first batch of Paralympians who returned home from Tokyo, Japan. Read more

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