1. President Muhammadu Buhari has held a high-level Security meeting with Service Chiefs and other heads of Security Agencies in the Presidential Villa, Abuja to review and strengthen security operations in the country.
The President also met with the governors of Jigawa and Kebbi states
in the Northwest, before his departure for Bauchi State also in the
Northeast of the country on official visit.
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.2. The Editor-in-Chief of the News Agency of Nigeria, Malam Yusuf
Zango has retired after 35 years of meritorious service to the agency.
At a reception held by staff of the agency in his honour, Zango urged
the staff to uphold the ethics of the profession and eschew all acts
capable of undermining their professional integrity.
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3. A Senior Correspondent of the News Agency of Nigeria, Ebere Agozie, has won the 2018 Coordinator’s Award for ‘Best Print Media’ of the Open Forum for Agricultural Biotechnology (OFAB).
Dr Rose Gadido, Nigeria Coordinator of OFAB, an initiative of the
African Agricultural Technology Foundation hosted by the National
Biotechnology Development Agency, said the award was in recognition of
the reporter’s passion and commitment to the promotion of
biotechnology in the media.
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4. 10-year-old Clark Kent Apuada has beaten the 100m butterfly
swimming record of 1hour, 10 minutes and 48seconds set by young
Michael Phelps in 1995.
Apuada, who has won seven gold medals, now holds the new world record
of 1hour, 9 minutes and 38 seconds.
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5. Pope Francis has changed Catholic Church teaching to fully reject
the death penalty, the Vatican has announced, saying it would work to
abolish capital punishment worldwide.
Francis has for years been a vocal critic of the death penalty,
calling it an “inhuman measure,” but his latest move places the issue
toward the forefront of his efforts to overhaul and modernise the
Church.
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