Happy morning! The summary from Nigerian Newspapers for today is as follows:
1. The Bayelsa, Imo, and Kogi governorship elections will take place on November 11, 2023, according to the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). Festus Okoye, INEC’s National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee, said this on Tuesday night.
2. Yesterday, the Peter Obi Presidential Campaign Organization urged Nigerians to reject those who want to run the nation through proxy, arguing that the population could no longer accept government being a family and friend affair. This was in response to Festus Keyamo’s challenge to Peter Obi, the presidential candidate for the Labour Party, to organise a campaign event in Anambra like his son Seyi Tinubu, the APC flagbearer, did for his father.
3. As a result of intense security operations in the North East and North West, some rebels have relocated to the capital of the country where they pose as low-level employees. This information was made public yesterday in response to the security warning issued by the US Mission in Nigeria.
4. Insisting that the military and other security services were up to the responsibility of protecting Nigerians and foreigners, Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed claimed that the worst of the crisis has passed. During a ministerial session of the ongoing UNESCO Global Media and Information Literacy Week, Mohammed made this statement.
5. On Tuesday, there was commotion at Computer Village in Ikeja, Lagos State, after unidentified motorists were purportedly kidnapped by masked gunmen. On Twitter, witnesses described how they saw the man being forced out of a black Toyota Corolla that he was driving on Medical Road.
6. Economic stability and confidence will be a priority for the next British Prime Minister, Rishi Sunak, and his administration. Following their meeting at Buckingham Palace on Tuesday, King Charles III chose the 42-year-old man with Indian descent as prime minister.
7. Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, has threatened to resign if it is shown that he pledged to choose someone else as his successor. By virtue of his character, he claimed, it was impossible for him to make a commitment to assist someone in succeeding him and then break that commitment.
8. The Niger Delta region is experiencing palpable fear as a result of the Federal Government’s decision to end the Presidential Amnesty Programme (PAP). PAP was put into place in 2009 as a result of the agreements made between the Federal Government and former soldiers who turned in their guns in order to accept the amnesty that the late President Umaru Musa YarAdua was offering.
9. Edo State Governor Godwin Obaseki has been branded a nitwit and an imposter for the position he now holds by Bola Tinubu, the APC’s presidential candidate. In response to Obaseki’s remarks that Nigeria would disintegrate if the APC won the next presidential election, Tinubu spoke out.
10. A Federal High Court in Port Harcourt has invalidated all primary elections held by the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Rivers State ahead of the 2023 elections due to the improper exclusion of some party members as primary delegates.
