Good morning! Right here is at the moment’s abstract from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The organised non-public sector has expressed concern concerning the spate of looting of vans conveying meals and uncooked supplies by suspected hoodlums, warning that it will possibly result in a shutdown of industries throughout the nation. The President of the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Trade, Gabriel Idahosa, stated the present financial hardship was ushering in anarchy.
2. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo, on Monday, suggested that Nigeria ought to strategy the federal government of Zimbabwe for an answer to the present all-time excessive inflation within the nation. He famous that since Zimbabwe was just lately confronted with the identical downside and got here out of it, the southern African nation would have helpful recommendation for Nigeria.
3. The Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee, on Monday, indicted banks as being linked to about 70 per cent of the monetary crimes in Nigeria. EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukayode, disclosed this whereas talking in Abuja on the 2023 Annual Retreat and Normal Assembly of the Affiliation of Chief Audit Executives of Banks in Nigeria.
4. The Home of Representatives, on Monday, referred to as for the arrest of the highest executives of Binance Holdings Restricted, which is dealing with fraud allegations. Binance, a cryptocurrency change platform, was accused of exploiting the Nigerian forex, Naira, resulting in its free fall in worth.
5. The Ondo State Safety Community Company, also referred to as Amotekun corps, has arrested no fewer than 67 males for allegedly participating in kidnapping and another crimes within the state. The suspects have been stated to have been arrested by the Amotekun corps in collaboration with the police, military, the Division of State Providers and the Nigeria Safety and Civil Defence Corps, in varied elements of the state within the final two weeks.
6. A number of folks, together with a soldier have been reportedly killed by suspected bandits in separate assaults in Kwande and Apa Native Authorities Areas of Benue State. The assaults, in response to some locals, occurred between Saturday and Sunday within the Udedeku neighborhood of Maav-Ya, Mkoonmom district of Mbaikyor, Turan Jato-Aka and Ochumekwu in Kwande and Apa LGAs respectively.
7. Crash involving an articulated automobile, alongside the Zaria-Kano Expressway claimed not lower than 12 lives, whereas 28 others suffered various levels of accidents. The accident, as confirmed by the Federal Highway Security Corps, occurred at Tashar Yari Village at about 7.36 am on Monday, which the FRSC blamed on overtaking, dashing and overloading.
8. The Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Dr. Mariya Mahmoud, yesterday, declared that Sunday’s looting of a warehouse at Gwagwa-Tasha by hoodlums was a legal act. She made this declaration on the finish of her evaluation go to to the location to establish the extent of harm on the warehouse.
9. President Bola Tinubu has returned to Abuja after a two-day State go to to Qatar on the invitation of the Emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. Tinubu, who arrived on the Presidential Wing of the Nnamdi Azikiwe Worldwide Airport, Abuja, round 6:37 pm, was obtained on arrival by senior authorities officers led by Vice President Kashim Shettima.
10. The Federal Excessive Courtroom in Abuja yesterday adjourned a contemporary N1 billion go well with filed by Nnamdi Kanu, chief of the Indigenous Folks of Biafra, IPOB, in opposition to the Federal Authorities till March 18 for a listening to. Justice James Omotosho had in January fastened the listening to for Monday. However counsel to the defence, I.I. Hassan, advised the courtroom that they have been but to be served with the processes.
