Good morning! Here are six top headlines from Nigerian Newspapers today;
1. At least 15 farmers were reportedly killed in a fresh attack on seven villages of Manden, Jibin, Tim, Jiblang, Koppang, Mihdihin, and Jilem of Chakfem district of Mangu Local Government Area, Plateau State. The attackers reportedly burnt down several houses and looted many animals in the villages belonging to community members.
2. Suspected bandits have attacked the Kakangi community in the western part of Birnin Gwari Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing five farmers. It was gathered that out the five, four are from the same family.
3. Kaduna-The Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has lamented that the scourge of banditry, kidnappings and other criminalities have worsened the pains of the North, leaving families bereaved and communities devastated. ACF Chairman, Chief Mamman Osuman, SAN, said at an event that the North continues to lose lives to “evil criminals, psychopaths, gangsters, bandits, marauders and terrorists,” in addition to natural causes and disasters.
4. The Police in Akwa Ibom State have arrested a self-acclaimed medical doctor, Sunday Okon Akpan, for allegedly killing a 35-year-old woman during a botched abortion at his clinic in Ibesikpo Asutan Local Government Area. The suspect, who owns and operates Full Life Medical Centre in Ikot Obio Odong, was discovered to be a community health practitioner with no medical licence or nursing qualification.
5. Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, on Thursday, declared that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will not reduce itself to the “gutter level” of the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mr Nyesom Wike, just as he disclosed that the party’s National Executive Council (NEC) will take a stand on zoning and other issues during its meeting on Monday.
6. President Bola Tinubu departed Yokohama, Japan, on Thursday night for Brazil, where he will begin a state visit on Sunday, August 24. Presidential spokesperson, Mr Bayo Onanuga, said in a statement that the President would make a stopover in Los Angeles before proceeding to Brasília, the Brazilian capital.
