Good morning- Below are major news reports making headlines in Nigerian Newspapers today:
1. Rampaging herdsmen continued their onslaught on Benue State Communities on Tuesday evening, killing scores. The latest incident happened in Otobi community in the Akpa district of Otukpo Local Government Area of the State, with many residents fleeing their homes.
2. Investors in a ponzi scheme, CBEX, are counting their losses after those behind the scheme reportedly closed business. Nigerians, especially in Oyo and Lagos States are said to have lost over N1 trillion to the scheme.
3. Embattled national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Senator Samuel Anyanwu has carpeted the party’s Governors’ Forum, vowing to stay on in office. This is against the decision taken by the governors during their meeting in Oyo State.
4. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, (EFCC) says it has launched an investigation into the alleged N1.3tn frauds perpetrated through a digital investment platform, CryptoBank Exchange, CBEX. The commission said it was collaborating with Interpol in the investigation.
5. The standoff between the Rivers State Government and the Nigerian Bar Association, (NBA), worsened on Tuesday, with the former threatening to recover the sum of N300m, following the relocation of the NBA’s 2025 Annual General Conference from Port Harcourt to Enugu State.
6. In what appears to be a dig aimed at the presidency, Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has said that leaders at the national level must solve the problems of Nigerians across the country and not just make lives better for only a gang in Lagos. He said this during an interview on Channels TV’s Politics Today on Tuesday.
7. Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has declared that his government is in control of the violent attacks in the state. He gave the assurance following the killing of over 50 people by gunmen on Sunday night in Zikke village, Bassa Local Government Area.
8. The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Dr. Abdullahi Umar Ganduje, has boasted that the New Nigeria Peoples Party, NNPP, is no longer active and will soon cease to exist. Ganduje also claimed that Rabiu Kwankwaso, the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 election wants to come back to the APC.
9. The Federal Government has declared Friday, April 18 and Monday, April 21 as public holidays to mark Good Friday and Easter Monday. This was disclosed in a statement by the Minister of Interior, Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, on Tuesday in Abuja.
10. The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has advised the federal and the sub-national governments to create jobs for the citizenry, noting that it was the only way militancy, kidnapping and other social vices would drastically reduce. This was disclosed by the NLC President, Joe Ajaero, at the official launch of the Labour Employment and Empowerment Programme, LEEP, in Abuja.