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Good morning to readers. Daily Sun brings you the major stories from Nigerian Newspapers on Friday morning.
2027: Battle lines drawn as Tinubu, APC govs meet, Atiku, Obi plot alliance
Battle lines for the 2027 presidential election are taking shape as President Bola Tinubu met governors elected on the platform of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Abuja yesterday, while Atiku Abubakar, Peter Obi, Seyi Makinde, Donald Duke and other opposition leaders prepare for a crucial summit aimed at forging a common front. Read more here.
Nigerians pay N12bn ransom as kidnapping feeds terror networks – Report
Nigeria’s kidnap-for-ransom crisis is evolving from a fragmented criminal enterprise into a more organised and financially consequential business, with at least N12 billion which may have been recorded in ransom payments over recent reporting cycles, findings from SBM Intelligence revealed on Thursday. Read more here.
N600bn cash transfers: Atiku queries ‘missing’ 5 million households
African Democratic Congress (ADC) presidential candidate, Atiku Abubakar, has challenged the President Bola Tinubu administration to account for what he described as five million “missing” households in its cash-transfer figures and provide evidence that more than N600 billion was actually disbursed to beneficiaries. Read more here.
Civil war: Igbo leaders hail Mutfwang, urge governors to correct ‘false narrative’
The Igbo Delegates Assembly (IDA), umbrella body of Ndigbo in Northern Nigeria, has commended Plateau State Governor, Caleb Mutfwang, for what it described as a bold step towards correcting the historical narrative surrounding the events of 1966 and the Nigerian Civil War. Read more here.
Insecurity: Enough of the bloodshed – Bishops, PFN
Nigeria’s Catholic bishops and the Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria (PFN) have raised a common voice against the worsening bloodletting across the country, declaring the killings and abductions of Nigerians in their homes and places of worship intolerable. Read more here.
