Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know Wednesday morning

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:

1. The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention, on Tuesday, said it has recorded 3,623 suspected Cholera cases and 103 deaths across 34 states and the Federal Capital Territory as of July 15, 2024. The Director General of the NCDC, Dr. Jide Idris, who disclosed this at a press briefing in Abuja, stated that the current outbreak had spread to 187 local government areas, with a cumulative case fatality rate of 2.8 per cent since the beginning of the year.

2. The Nigeria Labour Congress, on Tuesday, threatened to shut down the country for a month in protest against plans by the National Assembly to deregulate the national minimum wage. NLC’s threat came as the nation awaits a new national minimum wage following months of negotiations between the Organised Labour, the Federal Government, and the Organised Private Sector.

3. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has arrested and charged a tech entrepreneur, Kingsley Inegbedion, for his alleged involvement in romance scams and business email compromise schemes that witnessed him and an accomplice, Efemena Igbe, who is still at large, posing as legitimate business owners to defraud American citizens between April 2020 and May 2023.

4. A High Court sitting at Asaba, the Delta State capital, has sentenced one Onuwa Ijie to death while his accomplice, Nwanozie Uzor, bagged 14 years imprisonment for murder and conspiracy to murder twin boys, Chidalu and Chigozie Agwunobi. The court presided over by Justice Onome Marshal Umukoro sentenced the two over the murder of the seven-year-old boys.

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5. The supremacy battle between Victor Oko-Jumbo-led members of the Rivers State House of Assembly and 27 lawmakers, led by Speaker Martins Amaewhule, continued on Tuesday. The three-member House presided over by Oko-Jumbo raised a counter-resolution against the previous resolutions by the 27 lawmakers barring Governor Siminalayi Fubara from further spending money from the Consolidated Revenue Fund of the state.

6. Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, has signed into law the bill establishing three second class emirates in the state. It was reported that the Kano State House of Assembly passed the Kano State Emirates Council Establishment Bill 2024 after the bill scaled third reading earlier on Tuesday.

7. The House of Representatives has lost another member, Rep. Ekene Abubakar Adams representing Chikun/Kajuru Federal Constituency of Kaduna State. According to a statement by the House Spokesperson, Rep. Akin Rotimi Jr, on Tuesday, Adams died early Tuesday, at the age of 39.

8. A Federal High Court, Abuja, on Tuesday, issued a bench warrant for the arrest of Dr Abraham Ehizojie, the medical doctor at the health facility of Kuje Correctional Centre. The warrant was issued over alleged refusal to produce the medical report of Tigran Gambaryan, the detained executive of Binance Holdings Ltd.

9. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has given marching orders to the Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), General Christopher Musa to curb the menace of crude oil theft and vandalism in the Niger Delta region of the country in the shortest possible time. Tinubu said the order had become necessary as oil theft had become a national issue that needed to be surmounted to boost oil production in the country.

10. The Senate yesterday suspended all legislative activities to honour the deceased Reps member, Ekene Adams. Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced Adam’s death during plenary.