We’ll only sign treaties that impact lives of Nigerians, says Buhari (Sun)
President Muhammadu Buhari has reiterated that Nigeria would not sign any treaty without assessing the impact it would have on the lives of Nigerians. President Buhari made the remark, on Monday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, while inaugurating the nation’s Committee for Impact and Readiness Assessment of the African Continental Free Trade Area. Read more
Boko Haram jihadists kill two in Borno town (Guardian)
Boko Haram jihadists have killed two people in an attack on a village in northeast Nigeria near the town of Chibok, residents and a militia official told AFP Tuesday. The jihadists believed to be loyal to Boko Haram factional leader Abubakar Shekau, late Monday raided Mifah, seven kilometres from Chibok, where militants abducted more than 200 schoolgirls in 2014. Read more
Senate passes Electoral Act amendment bill (Punch)
The Senate has passed the Electoral Act Amendment Bill for third reading. The passage followed the adoption of the report by the joint Senate and House of Representatives committee on the bill, which was presented by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, Senator Suleiman Nazif. Read more
Imo women, youths declare war on Oshiomhole (Sun)
Women and youths in Imo State have accused the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, of being responsible for the botched primaries in the state. The women and youths, who marched and barricaded the roads in the state yesterday, accused Oshiomhole of impunity and high handedness, and vowed that they will not fold their arms and watch the national chairman of the party destroy APC in the state. Read more
Some pensioners earn as little as N4,000 monthly, Union says (Punch)
The Nigeria Union of Pensioners has lamented that some pensioners still earn as low as N4,000 a month despite the high rate of inflation occasioned by the devaluation of the naira. The NUP, therefore, called on the government to ensure that as the national minimum wage is about to be reviewed upward, there is a minimum amount which pensioners can earn. Read more
Army begins ‘Crocodile Smile III’ exercise in Niger Delta (Nation)
The Nigerian Army says it has commenced Operation Crocodile Smile III exercise across the states of the Niger Delta to stem the tide of pipeline vandalism in the region. This is contained in a statement made available to the News Agency of Nigeria in Uyo on Tuesday by the Acting Assistant Director, Army Public Relations, Lt. Tayo Oluwafemi of 2 Brigade Nigerian Army. According to him, the exercise which started on Monday October 22 would last till November 22, 2018. Read more
Adamawa polio vaccination rise to 67% (Nation)
The rate of routine polio vaccination in Adamawa State has risen to 67 per cent. This is a huge improvement on what used to be the case, according to the Technical Assistant on Immunization for the state, Dr John Sabo who said in a media interaction in Yola, that it used to be 38 percent. Read more
Zimbabwe opposition calls for ‘dialogue’ to fix crisis (Punch)
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa called Tuesday for a transitional emergency government to resolve the worsening economic and political crisis engulfing the country. A foreign currency shortage in recent weeks has sparked the worst economic crisis with supplies of fuel, food and pharmaceuticals drying up. Read more
Kushner calls Trump a ‘black swan’ (CNN)
President Donald Trump’s son-in-law has a unique perspective on the man he also calls “boss.” (Kushner is married to Ivanka Trump and serves as an adviser to the president.) Which is why when Kushner speaks about Trump — and he doesn’t do so often — you need to pay attention. Asked about Trump and the possibility that the coming 2018 midterm elections could be very bad for Republicans, Kushner told CNN’s Van Jones: “He’s a black swan. He’s been a black swan all his life.” Read more
Infantino’s plans for new global tournaments (Nation)
FIFA president Gianni Infantino’s plans for two new global tournaments are back on the agenda at the governing body with football officials set to discuss the proposals on Friday. FIFA’s ruling council meets in Kigali, Rwanda and Infantino’s plan for a new `mini World Cup’ and an expanded Club World Cup feature among the items for discussion. FIFA did not immediately respond to a request for comment and it was not clear if the plans would be put to a vote. Read more
Facing Atletico is like ‘toothache’ for Dortmund goal-ace Alcacer (Guardian)
Goal machine Paco Alcacer says playing against Atletico Madrid feels like ‘a toothache’ — and he hopes to extract maximum revenge for past suffering when Borussia Dortmund meet them in Wednesday’s Champions League clash. The 26-year-old, on loan from Barcelona, has needed just 109 minutes to score seven Bundesliga goals this season — the best goal-rate in the league’s history, which included a deft chip in Saturday’s 4-0 drubbing of Stuttgart to keep Dortmund top of the table. Read more
Huddersfield rape gang jailed for 221 years for abusing 15 girls (Metro)
A gang of men who embarked on a ‘campaign of rape and other sexual abuse’ against vulnerable teenage girls in Huddersfield has been given lengthy jail sentences, it can now be reported. Ringleader Amere Singh Dhaliwal, 35, was jailed for life earlier this year and told he must serve a minimum of 18 years in prison by a judge who said: ‘Your treatment of these girls was inhuman.’ Read more
White man called police on a black woman who was using a neighborhood pool (Buzzfeed News)
The man wanted the woman to show him her ID, but police verified she had a valid access card for the pool. He was later dubbed #IDAdam and on Friday lost his job. Police were called in North Carolina Wednesday after a white man confronted a black woman about using a neighborhood swimming pool, prompting allegations of racial profiling and a backlash on social media. The confrontation also follows a string of incidents across the country in which white people have reported law-abiding people of color in everyday life. Read more
Records of man on death row seeking appeal missing (Punch)
A man on death row, Ganiyu Onabanjo, seeking to appeal his conviction has discovered that the records of his case have gone missing. Onabanjo’s case was taken over by the Centre for Justice, Mercy and Reconciliation, which sought to file appeal against his conviction. The convict was arrested on allegation of armed robbery on June 9, 2006 and subsequently sentenced to death on October 9, 2009 by a Lagos High Court. Read more