Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers: 1. Former President Olusegun Obasanjo on Sunday endorsed the Labour Party standard bearer,
President Muhammadu Buhari has described poverty and underdevelopment as a tragedy. The Nigerian President who is a former military former Head of State stated this in a documentary titled ‘Essential Muhammadu Buhari’, which aired on Channels Television on Sunday. Comparing what life was like in Katsina then, when he was in secondary school where people begged for food every Friday at the mosque, Buhari said when he visited Liverpool in the United Kingdom on holidays, what he saw was in contrast.
Mr Buhari said before the deadly bomb blasts in 2015, Mr Kwankwaso told him that those who did not want him to return to power might make him a subject of attacks.
Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari has revealed how his colleagues in the military were jealous of him when he was sent to India and the United States for military training during the 30 months of civil war. Nigeria fought a civil war with Biafra - mainly the old Eastern part of Nigeria which started over alleged marginalisation and genocide committed against the people of the region in the North.