Good morning! Here are six top headlines from Nigerian Newspapers today;
1. The Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Governors’ Forum, and governor of Bauchi State, Senator Bala Mohammed, says the party has had enough of those causing problems. Reacting to the new set of conditions listed by a group loyal to Nyesom Wike, Minister of Federal Capital Territory, for the PDP convention to hold peacefully, Mohammed said leaders of the PDP are not cowards.
2. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP has vowed to go ahead with its elective National Convention scheduled for November 15th and 16th in Ibadan, Oyo State capital. Speaking at the inauguration of the National Convention Committee at the party headquarters in Abuja, on Tuesday, Ambassador Iliya Damagum, the National Chairman, said those against the convention were detractors, who will not succeed.
3. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has said he did not make any mistake with the choice of Vice-President Kashim Shettima as his deputy. There have been reports that the president is plotting not to run on another joint ticket with Shettima. But in a personally signed statement on Tuesday, Tinubu hailed Shettima and extolled his leadership qualities.
4. Troops of the Nigerian Army have killed scores of terrorists and arrested 15 others in a series of coordinated operations across the country. A military source told The Nation late Monday night that troops also rescued 15 kidnap victims during onslaughts conducted from August 29 to 31.
5. FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike has granted a 30-day grace period for land use violators in the territory to revert to their original land uses while also paying a N5 million penalty.
The penalty is alongside a 7.5% charge on the Assessed Capital Value of illegally converted properties.
6. Hundreds of men, women, and children in Shagari Local Government Area of Sokoto State on Tuesday staged a mass protest, blocking the Sokoto–Lagos highway, over the worsening bandit attacks in the state. They said that criminal gangs were now in control of many local government areas of the state, leaving residents devastated, displaced, and increasingly hopeless.
