Good day, good citizens of Nigeria, here are headlines from Nigerian Newspapers that may interest you today, Wednesday, December 9, 2021.
1. Raid on Odili’s Residence: We shall resist clandestine attempts to silence us, CJN warns [ThisDay Newspaper]
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Ibrahim Muhammad, yesterday issued a strong warning that the judiciary would begin to rise up against what he described as, “clandestine attempt” to silent it in the discharge of its lawful judicial functions.
The CJN spoke against the recent raid on the residence of the second most senior Justice of the Supreme Court, Mary Peter-Odili, by alleged security operatives.
2. South Africa: Researchers produce first look at how vaccine deals with Omicron variant [ThisDay Newspaper]
Vaccines against the virus that causes COVID-19 may provide less immunity to the Omicron variant than to other major versions of the deadly disease, according to laboratory experiments in South Africa.
Researchers at the Africa Health Research Institute in Durban, South Africa (AHRI), found Omicron resulted in about a 40-fold reduction in levels of neutralising antibodies produced by people who had received the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, compared with resistance to the original strain identified in China nearly two years ago.
According to allafrica.com, the study was a pre-print – meaning a study that was not yet peer reviewed but was released due to its importance.
While vaccinated people might be more vulnerable to breakthrough infections with Omicron, vaccines stimulate a wide-ranging immune response that involves more than just antibodies.
3. Nigeria’s petrol imports jump by 55%, hit N2.52tn in nine months [Punch Newspaper]
The cost of Premium Motor Spirit, also known as petrol, imported into Nigeria from January to September this year surged by 55.56 per cent to N2.52tn from the N1.62tn spent in the same period of 2020.
The development came amid the Federal Government’s plan to remove subsidy from petrol by February next year.
Already, oil marketers have begun plans to resume importation of the PMS as soon as the government deregulates the downstream sector of the petroleum sector in the first quarter of 2022.
4. New converts stab RCCG pastor to death in Lagos church [Punch Newspaper]
Suspected hoodlums have attacked and killed a pastor of the Redeemed Christian Church of God in FESTAC Town, in the Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos State.
Our correspondent gathered that the victim, Pastor Babatunde Dada, was killed inside the RCCG Chapel of Resurrection on 13 Road, 6th Avenue, FESTAC Town.
The killing, which happened on Thursday, December 2, was said to have been perpetrated by two new converts who came to the church for the first time a Sunday before the incident.
The two youths were said to have come out during an altar call and surrendered their lives to Jesus.
5. Ojodu truck accident: Parents’ protest forces LASG to close schools [Vanguard Newspaper]
Parents of students of Ojodu Grammar School and Babs Fafunwa Millennium Senior Secondary School along Ogba-Ojodu Berger Road in Lagos State, yesterday, forced the Lagos State Government to temporarily shut the schools following an accident which claimed the lives of some pupils.
The incident, which happened on Tuesday afternoon, is said to have led to the death of no fewer than 10 students.
There were many students in the area at the time as they had just closed from school not too long before the accident happened.
The schools are close to the Ojodu police station.
