Punch
Ohakim gave me $2.29m cash to buy house –Witness
A witness. Abu Sule, told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Wednesday that he collected $2.29m cash in Ghana-Must-Go’ bag from a former Governor of Imo State, Ikedi Ohakim, to help the former governor to buy a property in Asokoro, Abuja.
Vanguard
Senate okays death penalty for kidnappers
THE Senate, yesterday, agreed to begin a process for the enactment of a law that would prescribe capital punishment for kidnappers across the country.
Thisday
Anisulowo Recounts Ordeal, Says She Lived on Water for Seven Days
Former Minister of State for Education, Senator Iyabo Anisulowo, has narrated her experience during her seven-day ordeal in the hands of her abductors.
Daily Times
Fire outbreak claims two lives, destroys five vehicles in Kano
A fire outbreak, on Wednesday, claimed two lives in Kano with about five cars burnt completely.
Guardian
Odigie-Oyegun wants states to fix own minimum wage
National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, says states should be allowed to fix minimum wage according to their financial capabilities.
Daily Trust
http://www.dailytrust.com.ng/news/politics/you-can-t-expel-me-gabam-tells-sheriff/145197.html
A chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Bauchi State, Alhaji Shehu Gabam, has faulted the alleged plans by the chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, and other leaders, to expel him from the party.
Leadership
You Are Too Slow, Residents Tell Minister
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) have called on the minister, Mallam Muhammad Musa Bello to raise his bar in the way the FCT administration is being run since he took over the mantle of leadership in November last year in the nation’s capital.
Tribune
Obasanjo donates chimpanzee named ‘Patience’ to animal centre
Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has donated a chimpanzee named “Patience” in his Wildlife Park, to a conservation organisation, Pandrillus Foundation, a non-profit organisation.
The Nation
PDP cancels ward congresses in three states
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Working Committee (NWC) has cancelled Saturday’s ward congresses in three states.
