Lawyers ask court to order Buratai to produce Nnamdi Kanu as south east senators meet Buhari

Lawyers ask court to order Buratai to produce Nnamdi Kanu as south east senators meet Buhari – Newspaper review

The headlines of mainstream Nigerian newspapers for Thursday, September 21, are focused on the south east senators’ meeting with President Buhari as well as the speculations on Nnamdi Kanu’s where about.

The Punch reports that lawyers, acting on behalf of the leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu, alleged, on Wednesday, that the Biafran agitators’ arrowhead was likely to have been killed by the Nigerian Army.

The legal team, led by Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, therefore, filed an originating motion, marked FHC/ABJ/CS/908/20017, before the Federal High Court in Abuja, praying for an order directing the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, to produce Kanu in court.

Buratai is the sole respondent to the motion.

The Punch Newspaper

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The Nation reports that the Igbo have voted for the restructuring of Nigeria, saying it is the way out of its problems. Besides, Ohanaeze, Ndigbo’s apex cultural and political organisation, yesterday rejected the declaration of the IPOB as a terrorist organisation. It described the action as “unfair, discriminatory and overhanded.”

Ohanaeze’s President-General John Nnia Nwodo said the Southeast had been over policed to intimidate and hold down the Igbo.According to him, the endurance of the Igbo is being stretched beyond elastic limit.

He said despite the October 1 quit notice given to the Igbo in the North, the Arewa Youths Council, which issued the deadline, was treated with kid gloves.

The Nation Newspaper

This Day reports that the National Judicial Council (NJC) under the chairmanship of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, has established a Corruption and Financial Crimes Cases Trial Monitoring Committee (COTRIMCO) to monitor judges and courts handling corruption and financial crimes cases in the country.

The council also appointed a former President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, as the chairman of the committee.

This Day Newspaper

Vanguard reports that senators from South-East, Tuesday, met with President Muhammadu Buhari over the tension generated in the region as a result of the activities of the IPOB.

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Led by the Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, the Senators said the South East zone was shortchanged by the current Federal Government.

Speaking with State House Correspondents after the meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, Ekweremadu said they had a fruitful discussion with the president over pressing issues affecting the South-East.

Vanguard Newspaper

The Guardian reports that the bilateral trade volume between Nigeria and South Korea has hit $9.9 billion (N3.02 trillion). The Nigeria Charge De ‘Affairs to the country, Lazarus Basaba, disclosed this yesterday in Busan, South Korea, at Nigeria’s organised investment forum at the on-going International Telecommunications Union (ITU) Telecoms World 2017 conference and exhibition.

A bilateral trade is the exchange of goods between two countries that facilitates trade and investment by reducing or eliminating tariffs, import quotas, export restraints and other trade barriers.