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The Punch reports that gunmen disguised as worshippers killed at least 35 people in St Francis Catholic Church, Owo, Ondo state. The newspaper says blackouts to worsen in many parts of the country as 20 power plants suffer major collapse.

The Nation reports that President Muhammadu Buhari has insisted that consensus arrangement is the best option for the All Progressives Congress (APC) to elect its presidential candidate. The newspaper says Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi, said he is still in the presidential race despite the resolution of 11 northern governors that power should go to the south, the newspaper says.

The Guardian reports that 2,340 APC delegates have started arriving in Abuja for the party’s presidential primary election. The newspaper says stakeholders have warned that the collapse of the power sector is imminent.

Nigerian Tribune reports that the federal government has attributed the recent failure to generate more power to the shutdown of gas plants. Rauf Olaniyan, deputy governor of Oyo, has left the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) for the APC, the newspaper says.

Daily Sun reports that Abia state government has restricted the movement of herders and cows to the cattle market. The newspaper says food prices continue to surge despite the financing of the agriculture sector by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).