Uproar Over Buhari’s Comments Over Nigerian Youths Being Lazy And Other Trending Headlines For Today

There is an outrage over the comment of President Muhammadu Buhari at the Commonwealth Business Forum in London where he said most of the Youthful Population of the country are not educated and expectant of government to give them the basic amenities to survive, a situation that has got Nigerians both on mainstay and New Media talking though on the President.

THE GUARDIAN and NIGERIAN TRIBUNE lead with the story reporting that Ekiti State Governor Ayodele Fayose called on the youths to show Buhari that they were not lazy and uneducated by voting against him in 2019. He said it was painful that the president could describe youths in Nigeria that were daily struggling to make a living under a harsh economy as lazy people.

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), also in a statement by its spokesman, Kola Ologbondiyan, yesterday, stated that Nigerian youths, by their demonstrated industry, could not in any way be described by anybody as lazy.

Still on the Senate Mace Theft Story, The Senate has resolved  to invite both the IGP and the Director General of the DSS to the chambers next week to brief the senators on what caused the security breach that caused the incident. THE NATION, DAILY SUN and VANGUARD say that Rising from a one-hour executive session, the Senate resolved to invite the duo next week to brief it on investigations into the attack.

The Deputy Senate President, Sen Ike Ekweremadu, who presided over plenary that lasted an hour, said everything must be done to prevent a recurrence of the dastardly act.

The story of some soldiers that rampaged Naka town in Benue State interests the DAILY INDEPENDENT and NEW TELEGRAPH front pages today. While the Army on one hand refuted claims that the attackers were soldiers, an account has it that about 300 houses went away in the rumble.