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Nigerian Newspaper Headlines, Naija News For Monday 20th May 2024
Nigerian Newspaper Headlines, Naija News For Monday 20th May 2024 Can Be Accessed Below.
Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines And Naija News For Monday 20th May 2024.
1. There are indications that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu is expected to receive the scorecard of members of his cabinet this week. The administration will be one year old next week, but the ministers will clock nine months in office tomorrow, having been sworn in on August 21 last year.
2. The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has withdrawn its earlier circular directing commercial banks, mobile money operators, and other financial institutions to implement the National Cybersecurity Levy. The move was primarily informed by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s directive and widespread concerns raised by Nigerians.
3. Troops of the Nigerian Army have rescued 383 women and children abducted by terrorists and insurgents in Sambisa Forest in Borno State. Those rescued include women and children who had been held in the forest for 10 years.
4. Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general elections, Peter Obi, has visited victims of Kano mosque arson. Obi, who arrived in Kano, on Sunday, went straight from the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport to the Murtala Muhammad Specialist Hospital, where some of the victims are receiving treatment.
5. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has offered a fresh appointment to Ajuri Ngelale, his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity. Ngelale was named Special Presidential Envoy on Climate Action and secretary of the newly established 25-man committee to oversee Green Economic Initiatives.
6. A helicopter carrying Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi was involved in “an accident” amid poor weather conditions on Sunday, state media reported, with a search underway and no news yet on his condition.
7. A man, Taiwo Badejo, has allegedly stabbed his friend, identified simply as Monday, to death over N2,500 debt in the Oko Oba area of Lagos State. It was gathered that Badejo and Monday were arguing over the money when the argument degenerated into a fight between them on Friday.
8. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has declared a couple, Kazeem and Rashidat Owoalade, wanted for running a cocaine cartel from India. This followed the arrest of four members of the syndicate in Lagos, where a Sports Utility Vehicle was recovered and two houses traced to them were sealed for forfeiture to the Federal Government.
9. Organised Labour has told the Federal Government to perish any thought of offering N100,000 as the new minimum wage. It also asked the government to be serious with negotiations on the issue of workers’ wages, insisting that it used the lowest minimum in arriving at N615,000 as the new minimum wage.
10. Olubadan-designate, Oba Owolabi Olakulehin’s nomination is awaiting Oyo State Governor, Seyi Makinde’s approval, Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs Commissioner, Segun Olayiwola said on Sunday. He disclosed that his nomination as the next Olubadan of Ibadanland has scaled through all the stages, except the final approval.