S/N: 1

News value: Unexpectedness

Page number: 3
Headline: (MAJOR) Court stops Pro-Wike from holding meetings. APC speaks on status of
defected legislators.
Intro: Court stops pro-Wike lawmakers from holding meetings.
A Rivers State High Court sitting in Port Harcourt has barred members of the Rivers State House
of Assembly, including its Speaker, all of whom are loyalists of the Minister of the Federal
Capital Territory, Mr. Nyesom Wike, from parading themselves as members of the Assembly.

Justice Charles Nwali, who gave the interim order on Friday in a motion ex-parte brought before
him, also gave an order restraining the defendants from dealing with, interfacing, accepting any
resolutions, bills as members of the House of Assembly pending the hearing and determination
of the motion on notice.

S/N: 2
News Value : Reference to Elite people
Page number: 13
Headline : (MINOR) Megan Markle in Abuja , says prince Harry is ‘so inspiring because he
speaks the truth’.
Intro: Do you see why I married him? He speaks the truth’: Meghan gushes about ‘so smart’
Harry as they speak to Nigerian school children about mental health.

Meghan Markle praised ‘smart’ Prince Harry on Friday as their 72-hour tour of Nigeria got
underway, saying her husband was ‘so inspiring because he speaks the truth.’

The Duke of Sussex spoke to pupils about mental health, saying: ‘If you see your friend in your
class not smiling, what are you going to do? Are you going to check in On them? Are you going
to ask them if they’re OK? Because it’s OK not to be OK.’
S/N : 3
News Value: Continuity
Page number: 5
Headline: (MINOR) Judge tells Ex-Gov Bello “Even if my order was made in error you must
appear in court”
Intro : Justice Emeka Nwite of the Federal High Court, Abuja, on Friday, granted the application
by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) for the former Governor of Kogi,
Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to appear in court to take his plea before any of his application can be
heard.

Nwite reiterated in a ruling that an applicant or defendant who willfully disobeys the orders of a
court of competent jurisdiction is not entitled to be heard by the court.

The judge while holding that, even if his orders were issued in error, “the humble thing for him
to do is to make himself available in court”.

S/N : 4
News value : Negativity
Byline: Yekinah Jimoh May 11th 2024.
Page Number : 3
Headline : (MINOR) Bandits invade Kogi varsity abduct many students.
Intro : Some fully armed bandits have invaded Kogi State University of Science and Technology
Osara and kidnapped unspecified number of students on Thursday night.

According to eyewitness accounts, the Bandits in their large numbers entered the school around 9
pm through the bush path and started shooting sporadically into the school premises.
The school’s local security displayed gallantry as they engaged the hoodlums in gun duel that
lasted for over 30 minutes.