Dapchi Residents Stone Yobe Governor’s Convoy And Many Other Headlines Today
THE visit of Yobe State Governor, Ibrahim Gaidam, to Dapchi was cut short as angry residents of the town pelted his convoy with stones.The PUNCH gathers that Boko Haram members had stormed Government Girls Technical College in Dapchi on Monday, but the schoolgirls were said to have fled into the bushes in the area.
Again on the abducted shool girls in Yobe state. NIGERIAN TRIBUNE reports that Parents Weep As Rescue report Turns False. Parent and guardians of the missing school girls of the Government Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, broke into tears when Governor Ibrahim Gaidam visited them without saying a word on the whereabout of the kids. Addressing the parents at the district head’s head palace in Dapch on Thursday, the Governor urged the parents to remain faithful as security operatives were still searching for the girls.
DAILY SUN also on the abducted girls. 2 SchoolGirls Killed In Failed Rescue Operation. Two of the girls abducted by Boko Haram at the Government Girls Science Technical College (GGSTC) Dapchi, Yobe State, on Monday have been reported dead in a failed rescue operation. Their bodies were recovered on Wednesday by the Nigerian military.
VANGUARD continues on the abduction in Yobe. Confusion Over Yobe Girl: Angry Parents Stone Gov. ABUJA — The confusion trailing the attack on Government Girls Science Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe, by Boko Haram insurgents on Monday continued yesterday, as some aggrieved residents of Dapchi, headquarters of Busari Local Government Area of Yobe State, attacked Ibrahim Gaidam, Governor of the state. They not only booed the number one citizen of the state but threw stones and dangerous objects at his convoy, resulting in the destruction of some vehicles.
Coming From THE NATION. Tinubu To Oyegun: Stop Frustrating peace Moves. All Progressives Congress (APC) stalwart Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has accused National Chairman John Odigie-Oyegun of frustrating reconciliation efforts in the ruling party. He said the chairman had compounded the challenge of reconciliation by taking “improper unilateral decisions” on issues affecting national and state chapters.
DAILY INDEPENDENCE is also on APC crisis. APC Crisis Worsens As Tinubu Asks Oyegun, NWC To Resign. Lagos – The crisis rocking the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) has worsened following allegation by a member of the National Working Committee (NWC) that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu asked them to resign as a way of finding a lasting solution to the intractable crisis rocking the party. This followed on Thursday a scathing letter written by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, chairman of the party’s reconciliation committee, to Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, national chairman, accusing him of sabotaging his efforts in reconciling aggrieved members of the party.
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) may have begun beaming its searchlight on how the National Working Committee (NWC) of the All Progressives Congress (APC) led by Chief John Odigie-Oyegun has been spending party funds the GUARDIAN reports that the move comes barely four days to the National Executive Committee (NEC) meeting of the ruling party.It followed a strongly worded letter said to have been written by the National Leader and former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, accusing Odigie-Oyegun of frustrating his efforts at reconciling aggrieved members of the party
And Finally On NEW TELEGRAPH. Hospital ‘Imprisons’ Nursing Mothers, Babies Over Bills. Eight women, who were newly delivered of babies, have been detained at the Alimosho General Hospital, Igando, Lagos over their inability to pay accrued hospital bills arising from delivery services. Consequent upon this detention, the movement of the affected women has been restricted to the premises of the Maternity and Child Complex (MCC) domiciled at the Alimosho General Hospital.
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