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The Punch described the incessant kidnappings in many parts of the country as a “kidnap epidemic” as it reports that gunmen abducted 18 persons in Ogun, Oyo, Rivers, Imo and Katsina in the past 48 hours.

Daily Independent says resident doctors insisted on continuing the strike until the federal government meets their demands. The newspaper reports that BUA group responded to claims made by Dangote Industries Limited and Flour Mills of Nigeria that its sugar refinery “poses a threat” to the country’s local sugar industry.

Violent attacks in Imo have surged as gunmen abduct a monarch and chiefs, and attacked another police station in the state, the Nigerian Tribune reports. The newspaper reports that the Miyetti Allah group told Arewa Consultative Forum (ACF) that 400 grazing reserves in the north are enough for all herders.

The Nation reports the warning of Bello Matawalle, governor of Zamfara, that attacks on northerners must stop. Abduction, violence and arson have continued to reign in Ondo, Oyo, Kwara and Rivers, the newspaper says.

Nasir el-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, has again asked the federal government to decentralise power, the police and the judiciary, The Guardian says. The newspaper reports that ex-militants are on the rampage in an Ondo community as 17 houses were set ablaze.

The federal government ascribed the call for secession in some parts of the country to the rising insecurity, Daily Sun reports. The leaders of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the north-central region asked the party to zone the 2023 presidential ticket to the south, the newspaper says.