Today's Headlines:‘He made serious mistakes’ – Putin breaks silence on Prigozhin’s death, Tinubu, Building collapse: Tinubu, Wike meet in Aso Rock

He made serious mistakes’ – Putin breaks silence on Prigozhin’s death

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday paid tribute to his one-time ally and Wagner Group leader Yevgeny Prigozhin who was killed in a plane crash Wednesday, calling the mercenary group chief “a person with a complicated fate,” multiple outlets reported.

Source: Punch papers

In a televised address, Putin revealed he had known Prigozhin since the 1990s. While seemingly referencing his failed mutiny, the Russian Leader added that Prigozhin “made serious mistakes in life”

He said, “This was a person with a complicated fate, and he made serious mistakes in life but also sought to achieve the necessary results – both for himself and at a time when I asked him to, for the common cause, such as in these recent months.

Building collapse: Tinubu, Wike meet in Aso Rock

President Bola Tinubu and the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja, Nyesom Wike, on Thursday, met behind closed doors at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Source: Vanguard

The meeting is coming on the heels of the building collapse two days after the former governor of Rivers State assumed duty as the FCT Minister.

The agenda of the meeting was not made public but it may not be unconnected with the building collapse in Abuja on Wednesday in which about two persons were feared dead and 37 persons wounded. It was expected that the Minister would brief the President on the unfortunate event and the level of casualty recorded.

Army denies capture of armored vehicle by bandit kingpin

The Nigerian Army on Thursday denied that bandit kingpin, Turji Bello, captured one of its Armoured Personnel Carriers.

Source: Punch papers

The army was reacting to a viral video on social media showing that the bandit leader captured an APC purportedly belonging to the Nigerian Army. In a statement on Thursday, the Directoof r Army Public Relations, Brig. General Onyema Nwachukwu, said the video was fabricated.

The statement partly read, “The attention of the Nigerian Army has been drawn to a viral unsubstantiated and fabricated video clip circulating on the social media, portraying stage-managed capture of Nigerian Army Armoured Personnel Carrier by Turji Bello, one of the infamous terrorists’ leaders in North West Nigeria.

FG to construct flyover to prevent flood on Abuja-Lokoja road

Minister of Works, David Umahi, says the ministry under his watch will construct a flyover as a permanent solution to end the perennial flooding on the Abuja-Lokoja highway.

Source: Nigerian Tribune

David Umahi stated this on Tuesday during his tour to inspect ongoing construction works on the Abuja-Lokoja road a day after his inauguration into office. The minister, alongside the Governor of Kogi State, Yahaya Bell,o and some directors in the ministry, visited some work sites on the road. According to Umahi, the Abuja-Lokoja road is a major gateway that links the southwest, south-south, and southeast regions to the Federal Capital Territory and the country’s northern parts.

He said priority should be given to it because of its critical role in the country’s socio-economic life. “We have seen the area that always gets flooded at the Koton Karfe section, and the only solution is to do a flyover on it to fly above the flood level. “That will work because it is about 1.6 kilometres which will take five flyovers, you know, multiply by two.

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