BY FATIMA MUSTAPHA ALI, JANUARY 13, 2022 | 04:15 PM
This is a summary and review of the major happenings across the country reported on Thursday by major newspapers.
These are Premium Times, ThisDay Newspaper, Daily Trust and Punch.
Punch Newspaper reported that oil price has surged above $85, as a result of the impact of Omicron. Brent, against which Nigeria’s crude oil is priced, rose by $1.42 to $85.14 per barrel as of 7.00pm Nigerian time on Wednesday.
Similarly, the Director of Disease Control, Kaduna State Primary Health Care Development Agency, Dr. Hamza Ikara, on Wednesday said Lassa fever has claimed two lives in the state, raising concern over the disease’s outbreak in the state.
He said the victims, male and female, in Kabau and Chikun local governments of the state.
Also, the paper reported that bandits have kidnapped Hajiya Zainab, mother of Isiyaku Danja, a Kano lawmaker, who is also the minority leader of the Kano State House of Assembly.
She was kidnapped at Gezawa Local Government, Kano, at 01:00 am.
The hoodlums who were armed with sophisticated weapons are yet to contact the family, as at the time of compiling this report.
Premium Times Newspaper also reported that less than a month after 70 travelers were kidnapped along Kaduna - Birnin Gwari Road in Kaduna, an unspecified number of traders travelling to Kano from Birnin Gwari were kidnapped again.
The gunmen blocked the highway between Birnin Gwari and Kaduna at Unguwar Yako Forest where they abducted the traders.
ThisDay Newspaper reported the death of not fewer than 18 persons following an attack on Ancha community of Bassa Local Government in Plateau State by unknown gunmen.
The gunmen stormed the community earlier today at about 12:00 am, shooting sporadically into the air and burning several houses. The attack which lasted for two hours non-stop, left 18 people dead, six injured and 24 households with over 100 residential rooms razed down.
In Plateau again, police has arrested a suspected killer of a student in the University of Jos, UNIJOS.
The paper also reported the dead of Abdulmumuni Vaki, a former chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP, in Taraba.
Vaki died yesterday.
He was recently appointed a member of the Taraba State Muslims Pilgrimage Board. He died after a prolonged illness and was buried today.
ThisDay also reported the closure of some highways in Lagos as President Muhammadu Buhari visits Ogun State to commission some projects embarked upon by the state government.
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28 February 2023
