Next President Should Emerge From The South – Southern Governors

   

    Southern governors have jointly agreed that Nigeria’s next president should emerge from the southern region.

   The governors also set September 1, 2021, as the deadline for the promulgation of anti-open grazing law among its member states. Chairman of the Southern Governors’ Forum, Rotimi Akeredolu, stated this on Monday while reading from a communique jointly signed by the governors after a closed-door meeting in Alausa, Lagos State.

  “The Forum reiterates its commitment to the politics of equity, fairness and unanimously agrees that the presidency of Nigeria be rotated between Southern and Northern Nigeria and resolved that the next president of Nigeria should emerge from the Southern Region,” Governor Akeredolu said on behalf of the governors.

List of Schools Kaduna State Govrnment Closured Over Insecurity

 

  The Kaduna State Government has ordered the immediate closure of 13 schools located in areas that have been identified as vulnerable to attacks by bandits.

  This followed Monday’s bandits’ attack on Bethel Baptist school in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, where an unspecified number of students were kidnapped.

Gunmen break into another Kaduna school

 

 

   Some gunmen have just stormed Bethel Baptist School, a private college located at Maraban Rido area in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, abducting an unspecified number of students.

Southern Governors Meet In Lagos, To Discuss Open Grazing

   

  Governors of the southern region are holding a meeting in Lagos State. The meeting is a follow-up on the earlier meeting in Asaba hosted by the Delta state Governor where the governors agreed on far-reaching conclusions on open grazing, restructuring Nigeria, and calls for state police.

I made no comment on PDP defections- Soyinka

   

Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka has debunked comments attributed to him on recent defections from the People’s Democratic Party (PDP).

Benue Governor To Sanction Monarchs Aiding Illegal Tax Collectors

   

    Benue Governor, Samuel Ortom has threatened to sanction any monarch aiding illegal tax collection in the State.

NIRSAL guarantees N266.97b bank loans in five years

   

   The Nigeria Incentive-Based Risk Sharing System for Agricultural Lending (NIRSAL) Plc has guaranteed N266.97 billion ($648 million) bank loans to different agriculture-focused companies in the last five years.