Top 10 important stories you must read this morning

Here is today’s newspapers’ summary you should not miss. 

1. Vice President Kashim Shettima has revealed that the President Bola Tinubu-led administration plans to engage with influential figures in Northern Nigeria to address pressing concerns affecting the region.

2. ⁠Former presidential candidate of the Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi has mourned those who lost their lives in the just concluded #Endbadgovernance protests in the country.

3. ⁠Officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have recovered multi-billion-naira worth of cocaine concealed in heavy-duty automobile pivot shafts, and Ghanaian fabric (Kente), among others in a nationwide intelligence-led operation.

4. ⁠Unidentified assailants have reportedly abducted three people along the Nkpologwu-Akpo Road in Nkpologwu, Aguata Local Government Area, Anambra State.

5. ⁠Expressing concern over the alarming rate of corruption in the country, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, emphasized that corruption has reached unprecedented levels because many Christians, who are expected to stand out as a moral example, have compromised their values.

6. Mixed reactions have emerged as veteran singer, Paul Okoye, popularly known as Rudeboy, and his estranged wife Anita, unfollow each other on Instagram.

7. ⁠The duo of Asake and Wizkid have again marked a remarkable accomplishment. The dynamic duo’s collaboration has established a new benchmark for the highest number of first-day streams on Spotify Nigeria.

8. ⁠The Nigeria’s electricity generation rate has dropped to 3,521,37 megawatts on Saturday barely two weeks after reaching a year high of 5,105 megawatts on July 27.

9. ⁠President Joe Biden, in his first television interview since withdrawing from the White House race, issued a stark warning about the dangers if Donald Trump emerged again as president of the United State of America.

10. ⁠The Nigerian Senate has denied the allegation by former president Olusegun Obasanjo that the lawmakers set their own salaries or receive special fiscal packages from the Presidency.