Happy morning! The summary from Nigerian Newspapers for today is as follows:
1. Yakubu Dogara, a former speaker of the House of Representatives, has rejoined the main opposition party just a few days after endorsing the Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar for president. At a rally for the presidential election in Lagos State on Monday, the former legislator was welcomed into the party.
2. There have reportedly been a large number of terrorist deaths in the last three days as a result of internal fighting between the late Abubakar Shekau’s faction of Boko Haram and the Islamic State of West African Province (ISWAP). According to reports, on December 3, Ali Ngulde, the infamous leader of Boko Haram, led hundreds of fighters equipped with weapons from the Mandara mountains to attack ISWAP positions in a massive assault against the rival group.
3. Yesterday, Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, threatened the PDP presidential candidate campaign council that the G5 governors would retaliate against any council member who insulted the governors. The governor issued the threat on Monday during the official start of a new road project in Rivers State’s Eleme Local Government Area.
4. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress’ presidential candidate for the general elections of 2023, took his campaign to London, United Kingdom, on Monday. There, he discussed his plans to rebuild the country’s economy, security, and foreign policy if he were to win the presidency.
5. Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, has cautioned presidential candidates against downplaying President Muhammadu Buhari’s successes during their campaigns ahead of the 2023 elections. He explicitly charged Atiku Abubakar, the PDP presidential candidate, with doing so, claiming Buhari built a road to Atuki’s village.
6. On Monday, President Muhammadu Buhari reiterated his resolve to transferring power to an elected president on May 29 of the following year. He made this comment in passing to Mr. Shakib Ben Musa, the Minister of National Education, Pre-School, and Sports of the Kingdom of Morocco, who was in Abuja to represent King Mohammed VI as a special envoy.
7. On Monday, the police in Benue State said that they had started a manhunt for the shooters who had taken Chief Dennis Ekpe Ogbu, the commissioner for housing and urban development, and two other people hostage.
8. Yesterday, Ademola Adeleke, the governor of Osun State, paid a courtesy call on the State House of Assembly to ask for their help and support. The two had argued over the governor’s directive for the Local Government Chairmen to leave their positions in accordance with the court’s dismissal of them.
9. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), assured the UN that the commission would conduct credible, transparent, and inclusive elections that would not let down Nigerians or the rest of the world down. The guarantee was included in his comments made yesterday in Abuja during a meeting with the United Nations Office for West Africa and the Sahel (UNOWAS).
10. According to rumours in Spain, Cristiano Ronaldo will sign a deal with Saudi Arabian club Al-Nassr on January 1. Following his sensational departure from Manchester United only two days before the start of the World Cup, the Portuguese superstar appears to have finally found himself a new club.
