Good morning, Nigeria, welcome to Naija News roundup of top Newspaper Headlines in Nigeria for today Sunday, 11th October 2020.
Here Are The Major Nigerian Newspaper Headlines.
Hundreds of youths(protesters) met their shock today as rather than get a chance to speak with the Inspector-general, Mohammed Adamu as requested, they were sprayed with teargas instead. The police fired teargas canisters at hundreds of youth who converged on the force headquarters to protest brutality and intimidation by the Special Anti Robbery Squad (SARS).
Governor Nasir El-Rufai on Saturday received President Muhammadu Buhari ahead of a ceremony in Kaduna State. President Buhari is in Kaduna for the passing-out parade (POP) of cadets of the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA).
Orji Uzor Kalu, former governor of Abia State has alleged that former President of Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo gave N50m to each Senator in 2007 for them to support his third term agenda. He added, however, that unknown to many, Senator Ibrahim Mantu, the then deputy senate president was the person that worked tirelessly to scuttle the third term agenda.
he Chairman of the board of Cross River Basin Development Authority, Eseme Eyiboh, has been sacked by President Muhammed Buhari. Mr Eyiboh’s sack came about two months after the Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, overruled the board on the suspension of the agency’s managing director, Bassey Nkposong, over an alleged corrupt act.
The Nigeria Immigration Service has announced that at least 60 personnel have been sacked after they were caught receiving or giving bribes. This was disclosed by the Comptroller General of Immigration, Muhammad Babandede in an interview with BBC Hausa Service on Saturday, October 10.