Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Today, Monday, 10th September, 2018

Here Are The Major Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Monday, 10th September, 2018

1. Presidency defends Abba Kyari over N29m bribe allegations

The presidency on Saturday released a statement criticising one of Nigeria’s leading newspapers over a publication reporting an alleged involvement of President Muhammadu Buhari’s Chief of Staff, Abba Kyari, in a N29 million bribe scandal.

Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman in a statement on Saturday stated that the presidency took offence with the Newspaper publication which he described as improbable and outlandish.

2. National Assembly may extend holidays till October

Members of the National Assembly have called for a postponement of  their resumption earlier stipulated for Setember 25.

The lawmakers, comprising both of the All Progressives Congress, APC, and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP explained that the September 25 earlier fixed, was no longer feasible, and called for extension to the second week of October.

3. Presidency wants NASS to reconvene over electoral bill

The Presidency, in a statement through Garba Shehu, Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, has urged the National Assembly to cut short its recess and reconvene, to attend to the Electoral (Amendment) Bill.

This was just as the presidency assured Nigerians that President Muhammadu Buhari is not against e-voting and the use of card readers in the 2019 general election.

4. FIRS to go after 6, 772 billionaires for tax evation

The Executive Chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), Mr. Babatunde Fowler, has disclosed that the agency will soon target defaulting taxpayers who have billions in their bank accounts but refuse to honour tax obligations to the country.

He said over 6,772 billionaire taxpayers had been identified by the service leveraging on bank data, adding that the FIRS would through all banks do what it called substitution on accounts for such identified taxpayers.

5. APC attacks Atiku, Mark over restructuring claims

The All Progressives Congress has lashed out at politicians promising to restructure the country, describing them as latter-day converts.

The APC, in a statement by its acting National Publicity Secretary, Yekini Nabena, in Abuja, on Sunday, specifically called out former Vice-President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, and an ex-President of the Senate, Senator David Mark.

6. Ekpenyong threatens to expose Akpabio

A former Deputy Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Dr Chris Ekpenyong, said he would release damning records of Godswill Akpabio’s secret deals if he (Akpabio) continued in his campaign of calumny against him.

Akpabio, a former governor of the state, was alleged to have castigated Ekpenyong (his kinsman) that he deceived him into defecting from the People’s Democratic Party to the All Progressives Congress.

7. 52 cows crushed to death by Abuja-Kaduna train

The Kaduna State Police Command said on Sunday that 52 cows had been killed by an Abuja-Kaduna bound train.

The state Commissioner of Police, Ahmad Abdulrahman, during a press conference in Kaduna, said the incident took place at Kasarami in the Kagarko Local Government Area of the state.

8. Aruna Quadri defeats Saleh to emerge African tennis champion

Nigeria’s Aruna Quadri emerged as winner of the men singles event at the 2018 ITTF African Championships which ended in Mauritius on Sunday.

According to a statement by ATTF-Africa, Quadri did not drop a point from the first round until the final when he defeated Egypt’s Ahmed Saleh 4-1 to win his first African Championships title.

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