The attack on the girls’ secondary school by gunmen and the huge savings recorded on direct sale of petroleum products are some of the trending stories in Nigerian newspapers on Friday.
The Punch screamed that some gunmen on Wednesday night invaded the Government Girls’ Secondary School, Moriki in Zurmi Local Government Area of Zamfara State and abducted two caterers and three children.
The newspaper said that security was beefed up on Thursday in Daura and some of its surrounding villages after bandits kidnapped the Magajin Garin Daura, Alhaji Musa Umar, an in-law of President Muhammadu Buhari’s aide on Wednesday.
ThisDay reported that the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) has saved $2.2 billion through the Direct-Sale-Direct-Purchase (DSDP) scheme of petroleum products supply since its inception in 2016.
The Guardian said that the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP) has criticised the Federal Government’s trip to the United Kingdom to shop for best ways of handling the clean-up in the area.
The movement described the exercise as a waste of resources and a ploy to “cover up stolen funds in Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP)”.
The Sun said Nigeria and the United Kingdom have agreed to fast-track key regulation to deepen the insurance market, expand the digital economy and explore Naira-denominated financial instruments in collaboration with the City of London.
The Nation said that 132 local and international companies offered to buy 14 cargoes of Nigerian crude oil monthly in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) 2019/2020 Direct Sale and Direct Purchase (DSDP) bid opening in Abuja.
The Leadership reported that the Nigerian government has described the rising rate of unemployment among Nigerian youth as alarming and asserted that the figure could hit 33.5 percent in 2020.
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