Happy morning! The summary from Nigerian Newspapers for today is as follows:
1. Bola Tinubu, the presidential candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), urged Nigerians to vote for leaders who would improve their lives yesterday. When asking for prayers for calm, free, and fair elections in 2023, Tinubu made the comment.
2. According to the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), there will be no interference with the 2023 elections in Igboland. In a statement released yesterday, the group’s media and publicity secretary, Emma Powerful, said that none of the rumours swirling about supposed plots to sabotage the Southeast’s 2023 elections were true.
3. The Minister of Labor and Employment, Chris Ngige, and other appointees have been urged by the All Progressives Congress (APC) to publicly support the party’s presidential candidate, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, or risk losing their positions, according to Murtala Yakubu Ajaka, the APC’s deputy national publicity secretary.
4. According to the Peoples Democratic Party, the All Progressives Congress (APC) lacks a legitimate candidate for the 2023 presidential election (PDP). Bola Tinubu, the APC presidential candidate, has nothing to give, according to Debo Ologunagba, national publicity secretary of the PDP, who was speaking to a press conference at the party headquarters on Saturday.
5. Tope Momoh, 18, was sentenced to be held without bail by a Chief Magistrate Court in Akure, the capital of the Ondo state, for allegedly killing his mother, Late Mrs. Stella Momoh. On September 6, 2022, at Ikakumo Akoko Community, Akoko North-East Local Government Area of the state, the defendant is alleged to have strangled the deceased following an argument.
6. Peter Obi, a presidential candidate for the Labour Party, met HRH Sanusi Lamido, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), and the former emir of Kano, on Saturday in the United Kingdom. Obi, who posted pictures of his encounter with the former king on Twitter, said they talked for a while on the national interest in relation to the economy, patterns of consumption, and production.
7. Ifeanyi Ubah, the senator who represents the Anambra South Senatorial District, said goodbye to Mr. Ikechukwu Obum on Saturday. Mr. Obum was buried in the state of Anambra yesterday. When Obum’s remains was lowered to mother Earth, tears flowed freely. When the body of his most loyal ally was lowered to mother earth, Ifeanyi Ubah sobbed hysterically.
8. Out of the 1,503 people who were detained in the state during the past eight months, the Katsina State Police Command claims to have murdered 27 bandits, freed 393 abducted victims, and sent 1,116 suspects for trial. At a commissioning ceremony yesterday, State Commissioner of Police Idrisu Dabban Dauda revealed the information.
9. The President and Vice-offices President’s would spend N11.92 billion on domestic and international travel as well as the presidential aircraft fleet. The sum also includes N1.60 billion for the overhaul of the Gulfstream GV and CL605 aircraft engines and N1.58 billion designated for aircraft maintenance.
10. The flag-off of the All Progressives Congress’ (APC) 2023 presidential campaign, which was originally scheduled for Monday in Abuja, has been postponed. This occurred on the same day that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) announced the start of its presidential campaign in Uyo, the capital of Akwa Ibom State.
