Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Tuesday morning

Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers

1. President Muhammadu Buhari has placed travel restrictions on his Ministers, saying they can only travel out of the country eight times in a year. The Minister of Information, Culture & Tourism, Lai Mohammed, who made this disclosure on Monday, said Buhari has directed that no Minister should go on foreign trips more than twice in a quarter.

2. A member of Sokoto State House of Assembly, Isah Harisu, is dead. The lawmaker, who represents Kebbe State Constituency passed away on Monday after he showed signs of discomfort, slumped and died.

3. The Federal Government has described the Boko Haram and Islamic State of West African Province, ISWAP, as irrational and inhuman. Addressing the press in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital on Monday, Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, Culture and Tourism, maintained that the terrorists “do not subscribe to any religion, despite their pretensions.”

4. President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the people of the South East geographical region that more good things will soon come to the zone. The President promised that his administration was committed to developing the region and bringing dividends of democracy to the Igbo dominated area.

5. The Federal Government has assured Nigerians that there is no cause for alarm over the country’s debt profile both domestic and external as being speculated by scaremongers. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who gave the assurance on Monday in Lagos, said there were misrepresentations in the figures being pushed out in certain quarters about the debt profile, adding that the country had not reached its debt ceiling of 25 per cent in total public debt stock to Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

6. The Zamfara Hisba Commission says it arrested a police officer with three girls at a hotel room in Gusau. Chairman of the commission, Dr Atiku Zawuyya, while parading the suspects at the commission’s headquarters on Monday, quoted him as saying the police officer, who is serving with the Central Police Station, Gusau, and others committed acts contrary to Sharia law.

7. The Writers Against AIDS has urged the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to probe the financial transactions of state agencies for the control of HIV/AIDS mostly headed by governors’ wives.W AAIDS in a statement on Monday by the National Coordinator, Wole Adedoyin, said the funds, which ought to have been used in taking care of people living with AIDS, were either diverted into unknown accounts for selfish purposes.

8. Rochas Okorocha, Imo West Senator has reacted to the alleged rift between him and Adams Oshiomhole, National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC. Okorocha, who said he was yet to know the cause of the rift, stated that he looked forward to hearing from Oshiomhole and will remain in the APC.

9. The Federal Government says it is studying the situation on change of West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA) currency, Eco, to be used as ECOWAS single currency. The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, who made this known in a statement by Yunusa Abdullahi, her Special Adviser, Media and Communication, in Abuja on Monday. Reacting on this development, said Nigeria as a country would respond in due course.

10. Governor Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State, on Monday, signed the State’s N449.97bn 2020 appropriation bill into law. Gov Abiodun, while assenting to the bill assured the people of the state that his administration would be measured by the performance of the budget; saying the implementation of the year 2020 budget was sacrosanct.