Nigerian Newspaper Headlines Today; 2nd May

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Punch

May Day: FG ignores N56, 000 minimum wage proposal

The Federal Government on Sunday kept mum over the recent demand by the organised labour for a new minimum wage of N56,000.

Vanguard

The Federal Government has condemned calls by some individuals and groups in the south-east geo political zone for herdsmen to leave the region.

Thisday

NLC Asks FG to Set up Special Account for Recovered Funds

As Nigerians yesterday celebrated Workers’ Day, the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) called on the federal government to urgently set up a special and separate account for recovered looted funds and channel such funds to job creation, describing rising unemployment as Nigeria’s greatest economic crisis at present.

The Sun

How assassins attempted to kill dep gov –Osagie

THE Odubu Campaign Organisation yesterday raised the alarm over an assassination attempt on the life of the deputy govern or, Rt. Hon. Pius Odubu, at the All Progressives Congress (APC) Secretariat at Auchi on Saturday, April 30, 2016.

Daily Times

Gunmen kill nine in Rivers community

About nine persons were killed in two separate attacks on two communities in Ahoada East Local Government Area of Rivers State.

Guardian

NYSC to reopen camps in the N’East soon

The Director General of National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Brigadier General Sule Zakari Kazuare, at the weekend disclosed that all orientation camps in the North East, which were closed because of insurgency would be re-opened soon.

Daily Trust

Jackson Lekan Ojo is a political analyst, who defected from the PDP recently to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). In this interview, he speaks on the trial of Senate President Bukola Saraki at the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT), happenings in the APC and the forth-coming PDP national convention among others.

Leadership

Troops Destroy Boko Haram Bomb-making Factory In Ngala

Troops of the Nigerian Army, at the weekend, discovered yet another Boko Haram bomb making factory near the border town of Ngala in Borno State.

The Nation

Catholic Church sues Ekiti govt over education tax

The Catholic Diocese of Ekiti has filed a suit against the imposition of levies on pupils in its primary and secondary schools by the Ekiti State government.

Tribune

Fulani leader in S/West calls for caution

Chairman, Association of Fulani Chiefs of South-West of Nigeria, Alhaji Muhammed Bambado, in Lagos, at the weekend, called for caution in the way people jump into conclusion that any attack on any community should be traced to Fulani herdsmen.