Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know Friday morning

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:

1. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has asked governors to halt gathering flyovers wherever it is not truly necessary, but redirect the resources to ventures and amenities that volition assistance successful tackling the prevailing insecurity successful the country. Addressing accepted rulers from Oyo State, who visited him astatine Aso Villa, Abuja, on Wednesday, the President besides spoke astir insecurity.

2. The Nigerian Association of Resident Doctors, NARD, has issued a caller nationwide onslaught notice, informing that its members volition embark connected an indefinite concern enactment from 8:00 a.m. on August 10 if the Federal Government fails to code longstanding demands relating to unpaid arrears, payment and mediocre moving conditions.

3. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, on Thursday rejected the regular deployment of troops of the equipped forces during elections, saying the Force should stay exceptional. The electoral assemblage specifically said the deployment of the subject should originate lone wherever prevailing information conditions necessitate equipped forces’ enactment successful assistance of the civilian authorities.

4. Barely seventeen days to the August 15, 2026 Osun State Gubernatorial Election, the incumbent Governor, Ademola Adeleke, campaigner of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaj...