Hello and good morning! Here is today’s Nigerian newspapers summary:
1. The Labour Party has issued its Presidential Campaign Council roster, which includes 1,234 members, ahead of the 2023 presidential elections. The list was revealed at a news briefing in Abuja on Wednesday.
2. Yesterday, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike announced the appointment of 28,000 Special Assistants to political units. According to a statement issued by the Governor’s media aide, Kelvin Ebiri, the appointment is effective immediately.
3. On Wednesday, it was reported that the Peoples Democratic Party has postponed their presidential campaign rallies in Kebbi and Zamfara states indefinitely. The presidential rallies, which were scheduled for Wednesday, December 12 and Thursday, December 13, 2022, have been postponed.
4. The Indigenous People of Biafra have criticised the Federal Government’s recent release of 101 Boko Haram sect members from Ikoyi Custodial Centre. It was observed that the development occurred at the same time that the same government was holding the group’s leader, Nnamdi Kanu, and other members in various detention centres across the country.
5. The African Action Congress’s presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, and his Labour Party counterpart, Peter Obi, attended the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria’s conference in Abuja, while the ruling All Progressives Congress’s Bola Tinubu and the Peoples Democratic Party’s Atiku Abubakar were absent.
6. On Wednesday, the Court of Appeal set March 7, 2023, as the date for hearing a case submitted by Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the banned Indigenous People of Biafra. Kanu is attempting to join the appeal against the Federal Government’s proscription of the group.
7. According to the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Ltd, 146 trucks have arrived in Abuja to distribute petrol to alleviate the country’s capital’s scarcity. There have been lineups at retail stations for more than a week, with the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority, NMDPRA, blaming it on the flood in Kogi.
8. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has stated that at least 95 million eligible voters will vote in the general elections in 2023. Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), stated this on Wednesday at an event hosted by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the International Foundation for Electoral Systems (IFES), and Yiaga Africa at the NED Headquarters in Washington, DC.
9. The Ministry of Education said on Wednesday in Gusau that the Zamfara State Government has reopened 45 of the 75 schools it closed due to insecurity. Alhaji Kabiru Attahiru, the ministry’s permanent secretary, revealed this to members of the state’s Technical Team on Education in Emergencies (EiE) who visited the ministry to advocate for their cause.
10. On Wednesday, the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) University of Calabar Branch reported that some understanding had been established and some ground had been moved, but that only the National Executive Council (NEC) would be responsible for communicating the resolutions. This was said by Dr. Edor John, the Chairman of ASUU, UNICAL, yesterday when speaking to reporters.
