Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The National Industrial Court’s decision ordering lecturers back to class has far-reaching repercussions, according to Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, president of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU). He believed that the verdict would have disastrous effects.
2. The Senate has approved Justice Olukayode Ariwoola’s appointment as the new Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN). The progression came as a result of his Wednesday Senate chambers Committee of the Whole screening.
3. In Chakumi village, Gurdi ward, Abaji Area Council of Abuja, five people—four adult males and a housewife—drowned while attempting to flee from robbers. In the Dobi ward of the Gwagwalada Area Council of the nation’s capital, the river Gurara forms a shared border between Chakumi and the adjoining Daku hamlet.
4. On Wednesday, Governor Charles Soludo referred to Anambra State as Nigeria’s epicenter of erosion. After a private meeting at the Presidential Villa in Abuja with Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, the governor answered questions from the media.
5. According to the former vice president Atiku Abubakar, Senator Iyioricha Ayu cannot be made to leave from his position as PDP National Chairman. In response to Governor Nyesom Wike’s camp’s decision to resign from his campaign council, the PDP presidential candidate said this.
6. Following the resignation of former information minister Prof. Jerry Gana, governors Nyesom Wike of Rivers State, Seyi Makinde of Oyo State, and other important party officials from the PDP’s presidential campaign committee, the party’s leadership called an emergency meeting on Wednesday.
7. According to Babachir Lawal, a former secretary to the Government of the Federation, the All Progressives Congress’ announcement of the Muslim-Muslim ticket is an attempt to further polarize the north. He claimed that he was working with roughly 40 Christian leaders in the north to ensure that the ticket was defeated.
8. In a three-day cyberattack, suspected criminals fraudulently moved N523,337,100 from a client account located in an old generation bank to 18 separate accounts in the same bank. This information was released in a statement on Wednesday by SP Eyitayo Johnson, the spokesperson for the Police Special Fraud Unit in Ikoyi, Lagos State.
9. Geng Quanrong, a 47-year-old Chinese man, was remanded in custody by a Kano State Chief Magistrate’s Court on charges that he killed his ex-girlfriend Ummukulthum Buhari, also known as Ummita, in the State. The Kano State Police Command charged Quanrong on Wednesday with killing Buhari, a 23-year-old Ugandan graduate of the Kampala University’s Agriculture Science program.
10. Prof. Pat Utomi, the leader of the Labour Party, declared yesterday that Peter Obi’s election platform for 2023 was complete and would be made public before the campaign season began the following week. According to Utomi, who made this announcement in Abuja yesterday, “a manifesto is ready and it will be released before the campaign starts.”
