NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS

Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Monday morning

<p><strong>Good morning&excl; Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers&colon;<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>1&period; The Government of the Republic of Benin has extended the detention of Yoruba Nation activist&comma; Sunday Adeyemo&comma; aka Igboho&comma; by six months&period; Counsel for the detained activist&comma; Chief Yomi Aliyyu&comma; said this in an interview on Sunday night&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>2&period; Senegal defeated Egypt 4-2 on penalties to win the 2021 Africa Cup of Nations&period; Senegal and Egypt went into extra time in Sunday’s AFCON final with the score 0-0 at the end of 90 minutes&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>3&period; The family of slain Master’s student of Obafemi Awolowo University&comma; Ile-Ife&comma; Timothy Adegoke&comma; has hired human rights lawyer&comma; Femi Falana &lpar;SAN&rpar;&comma; to get justice for the family over the gruesome death of their son&period; In a letter dated February 3 and co-signed by the deceased’s father&comma; Moses&semi; the deceased’s brother&comma; Olugbade&semi; and the deceased’s wife&comma; Victoria&comma; the family insisted that the killers of Timothy must be brought to book&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>4&period; National Leader of the All Progressives Congress &lpar;APC&rpar; and the party’s presidential hopeful&comma; Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has returned to the country from his short trip to London&period; Tinubu Support Group &lpar;TSG&rpar; confirmed the return of the APC leader Sunday night on its Facebook Page&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>5&period; Gunmen suspected to be bandits attacked the Okene Area Command of the Nigeria Police Force in Kogi State in the late hours of Sunday&period; The armed men&comma; who were over 30&comma; according to a statement by Kingsley Fanwo&comma; Commissioner of Information in the State&comma; bowed to superior fire power of security operatives&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>6&period; Osun State Police Commissioner&comma; Olawale Olokode&comma; has warned politicians in the State not to drag the police command into bitter politics&comma; saying the force is not an appendage of any political party&period; All Progressives Congress&comma; APC&comma; faction loyal to Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola had last Friday&comma; called for the transfer of the CP on the ground of siding the Governor Adegboyega Oyetola’s faction of the party to deal with its members&comma; as well as ignoring the group’s various petitions&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>7&period; Kwara State Christian Association of Nigeria &lpar;CAN&rpar; has said that it never signed any agreement with the State government allowing the use of hijab in all the grant-aided schools in the State&period; The Christian body&comma; which urged the State government to bring perpetrators of the latest hijab protest to book&comma; also urged members in the State to remain calm&comma; peaceful and be law abiding in the face of any provocation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>8&period; Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State&comma; Sunday&comma; told former Vice President Atiku Abubakar that Benue people are not happy with him because he abandoned them when they came under the siege of Fulani herdsmen&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>9&period; Former Governor of Jigawa State&comma; Sule Lamido&comma; has said he is against the idea of zoning of political offices ahead of the 2023 general elections&period; Lamido&comma; while speaking in an interview on Saturday&comma; stated that the zoning of political offices has been counter-productive&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>10&period; There is palpable fear in Agege&comma; a Lagos suburb&comma; following the mayhem unleashed on parts of the community by members of the Awawa cult gang&period; The gang&comma; comprising under-aged boys&comma; had emerged in Agege a few years ago&comma; looting shops&comma; robbing people of cash and valuables and generally visiting terror on residents&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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