Happy morning! The summary from Nigerian Newspapers for today is as follows:
1. On Friday, President Muhammadu Buhari presented the 2023 Appropriations Bill to the National Assembly in joint session. Budget of Fiscal Sustainability and Transition was the name given to the legislation. Major stakeholders have, however, reacted differently to the projected N20.51tn budget’s most important elements.
2. On Friday, Senator Iyorchia Ayu, the national chairman of the People’s Democratic Party, broke his silence about the controversies surrounding the return of more than N100 million in housing allowance by some National Working Committee members to the party’s coffers. According to him, the NWC unanimously approved the allowance, and claims that it was a bribe or other illicit payment, as some people claimed, were untrue.
3. The Ogun 1 Area Command of the Nigerian Customs Service has seized 23 trailers, including Dangote vehicles that were allegedly carrying imported rice concealed within sacks of cement. At a news conference on the command’s accomplishments in the third quarter of the year held in idi-Iroko, Ipokia Local Government, Ogun State, the area controller, Bamidele Makinde, revealed this information.
4. Professor of microbiology Folasade Ogunsola became the University of Lagos’ thirteenth vice chancellor yesterday (UNILAG). The academic creates history when she joins the institution’s 1962 founding as its first female vice chancellor.
5. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has been told by the Court of Appeal to immediately end its strike. However, Professor Emmanuel Osodeke, the president of ASUU, stated Wednesday that the union would discuss the decision with its attorney before taking further action.
6. On Friday in Abuja, Justice Inyang Edem Ekwo dismissed a lawsuit filed by the imprisoned IPOB leader Nnamdi Kanu against the Chief Judge of the Federal High Court over the court’s policy of private trials for terrorism-related offences.
7. Governors have been urged by President Muhammadu Buhari to meet with Minister of Water Resources Suleiman Adamu to discuss the floods currently wreaking devastation in States. On Friday, Kayode Fayemi, the departing chairman of the Nigeria Governors’ Forum (NGF), and Buhari were guests at the State House.
8. The Nigerian Army and Nigerian Navy have allegedly been protecting oil thieves, according to Government Ekpemupolo, also known as Tompolo. During a Friday television appearance, the activist from the Nigerian Delta made the damning remark against the military.
9. Dangote Cement Plc has revealed that when armed thugs allegedly operating on the orders of the Kogi State government raided the company’s Obajana cement facility, 27 workers were shot at. The corporation claimed that the invasion was carried out by armed vigilantes, led by some state government officials, in a statement from its Group Managing Director, Michel Pucheros.
10. Yorubaland’s Aare Ona Kakanfo, Iba Gani Adams, has launched a new security system to protect the region from banditry, terrorism, and other types of criminal activity. Adams, who is also the National Coordinator of the Oodua Peoples Congress (OPC), took this action to fortify the South West’s security framework.
