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Newspapers review for Monday 30: It's time to end insurgency - Gowon tells military

Monday, September 30, 2019 at 10:21 AM by Onyirioha Nnamdi

Major headlines of mainstream Nigerian newspapers for Monday, September 30, focus on the call from former Head of State General Yakubu Gowon to the Nigerian military to end insurgency across Nigeria.

The Nation reports that Yakubu Gowon on Sunday, September 29, made a clarion call to the Nigerian Army to rise to its duty and end terrorism in the country.

Gowon said: "For the police, Army and other securities agencies, this is the charge: you have to make sure that by the next independence celebration, there is no disorder in this country."

Newspapers review for Monday 30: It's time to end insurgency - Gowon tells military — Newspapers review for Monday 30: The Nation
Source: UGC

Punch reports that Nigerians have reacted to the refusal of the federal government to obey court orders especially in relation to the release of the convener of the #RevolutionNow protest, Omoleye Sowore.

Many Nigerians have expressed the view that the federal government's non-adherence to the order of the Federal High Court is nothing but lawlessness.

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Vanguard reports that the senior pastor of Latter Rain Assembly, Tunde Bakare, on Sunday said that despite series of allegations and verbal attacks, Vice President Yemi Osinbajo will "have the last laugh."

Moreover, Pastor Bakare pleaded on behalf of Osinbajo, calling on Nigerians not to humiliate him out of office.

This Day reports that in a bid to discourage smuggling of goods into the country, the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) has shut car dealers across Lagos state in major crackdown.

This was in line with the decision of the federal government earlier in September to close all land borders.

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The Guardian reports that the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) has said that transactions through electronic payment in line with the recently proposed cashless policy rose to N284 trillion.

According to data gathered by the CBN, the level of adherence to the policy is very significant. This is as 3.81 billion transactions were recorded throughout payment platforms.