Good morning! Right here is at this time’s abstract from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. President Bola Tinubu has expressed displeasure with the method of a bit of the Organised Labour. He mentioned calling 4 strikes inside 9 months of a brand new administration was unacceptable. Tinubu spoke on Thursday in Lagos the place he inaugurated the primary section of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit, LRMT Pink Line mission, a 37km mission anticipated to scale back journey time and enhance transportation and logistics within the State.
2. The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike has commenced the enrollment of all susceptible pregnant girls within the Federal Capital into the Federal Capital Territory Well being Insurance coverage Scheme, FHIS. The Mandate Secretary of Well being Providers and Surroundings of the Federal Capital Territory Administration, FCTA, Dolapo Fasawe, revealed this on Thursday, in Abuja in the course of the flag-off ceremony of the enrollment, the place she disclosed that each one pregnant enrollees would obtain a free protected supply equipment for free of charge.
3. Group Govt Director (GED) of BUA Cement Plc, Kabir Rabiu yesterday reaffirmed the corporate’s dedication to reducing the value of cement from between N9, 000 and N15, 000 to between N7, 000 and N8, 000. He nonetheless hinged the corporate’s dedication to the pledge cement producers made throughout their assembly with the Federal Authorities on the nearness of the markets to their vegetation nationwide.
4. Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia has banned political conferences/gatherings within the state until additional discover. Alia mentioned the ban adopted intelligence on the safety state of affairs within the state. The choice, contained in an announcement by Paul Biam, Chief of Employees to the governor, made particular reference to the presence of armed herders within the state.
5. The Senate has urged the Police Service Fee, PSC, to recruit a minimal of 10 candidates from every of the 774 native authorities areas, LGAs of the nation. This adopted the adoption of a movement by Senator Udende Memga (APC, Benue) on Thursday at plenary.
6. The Nigeria Customs Service Space Controller, Oyo/Osun Space Command, Dr Ben Oramalugo, has mentioned the command intercepted faux prescription drugs comprising Augmentin tablets, Ampiclox and Amoxicillin capsules hid in 53 sacks with a Obligation Paid Worth of N1,739,000,000.00. Oramalugo made the disclosure on Thursday on the 2024 second press convention which was held on the operational headquarters of the command in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital.
7. The Governor of the Central Financial institution of Nigeria, Olayemi Cardoso, has mentioned that overseas trade backlogs have been cleared in all of the banks aside from 5 of them. Cardoso mentioned this on Thursday throughout an investor name facilitated by the Nigerian Change Group, throughout which he mentioned that the rest of the banks’ FX backlogs can be cleared within the subsequent few days.
8. There was chaos on the Benin-Asaba Expressway, by Iguomo Junction on Wednesday night, when a stray bullet allegedly fired from a police gun hit and killed a resident within the space. The yet-to-be-identified sufferer was mentioned to have been hit by the stray bullet in entrance of the home of a PoS operator the place he had gone to ship N4000 to his spouse in his village.
9. The Niger State Police Command, on Thursday, disclosed that it had arrested 4 suspects in possession of 295 rounds of AK-47 rifles reside ammunition. The state Police Public Relations Officer, Wasiu Abiodun, made this recognized in an announcement during which he mentioned one other suspect confessed that the ammunition was purchased in Kaduna State.
10. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed cement corporations to return to the established order on the subject of the value of the commodity. Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, revealed this to newsmen shortly after inspecting BUA cement manufacturing facility in Sokoto on Thursday.
