NIGERIAN DAILIES: 10 THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS MORNING

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Hello and good morning! Here is today's Nigerian newspaper summary:

1. The Federal Government will begin the evacuation of approximately 5,500 Nigerians, including students, who are stuck in Khartoum and other Sudanese cities today, Wednesday. The government has set aside N150 million to hire 40 buses to transport its destitute residents from Sudan to Cairo, Egypt.

2. The conflict in the Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Congress took a dramatic turn on Tuesday, when the El-Suldi Ibrahim-led State Working Committee evicted David Kente, a governorship hopeful ahead of the recently ended general elections. The party also suspended Jimkuta David, the senator-elect for Taraba South, for anti-party conduct and suggested that he be expelled from the party to the nationalThe conflict in the Taraba State chapter of the All Progressives Congress took a dramatic turn on Tuesday, when the El-Suldi Ibrahim-led State Working Committee evicted David Kente, a governorship hopeful ahead of the recently ended general elections. The party also suspended Jimkuta David, the senator-elect for Taraba South, for anti-party conduct and suggested that he be expelled from the party to the national secretariat.

3. On Tuesday in Accra, Ghana, President Muhammadu Buhari stated that Nigeria "very much looks forward" to the proposed joint Africa Naval Exercise of the Gulf of Guinea Commission, which will take place in Lagos on May 15, 2023. He also cited frequent meetings among the Gulf of Guinea Commission's member countries as a vital step toward achieving peace and security in the region.

4. Following the return of the president-elect, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, some of the candidates vying for the post of Senate President and other key positions in the yet-to-be-convened 10th National Assembly have increased their lobbying efforts. Senators Godswill Akpabio and Jibrin Barau, two of the leading candidates for Senate President, paid Tinubu a visit at his Abuja house yesterday.

5. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)'s post-election crisis in Lagos State has taken a new turn, with the party's State Working Committee suspending the party's Chairman, Hon. Phillips Aivoji, and Deputy Chairman, Hon. Benedict Felix Tai.

6. The Labour Party, LP, yesterday raised the alarm that the party's self-proclaimed chairman, Lamidi Apapa, has approached the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal, asking it to dismiss all cases filed by the party and its presidential candidate, Peter Obi, against the President-elect, Bola Tinubu. The party's National Publicity Secretary, Obiora Ifoh, asked the tribunal to ignore Apapa in a statement.

8. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board's (JAMB) Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, or UTME, for admission to tertiary institutions began yesterday across the country. While some candidates were fortunate to be assigned to centers where things ran well, others had stories of disappointment and frustration to recount.

9. A 23-year-old commercial tricycle operator simply known as Samad was killed in a cult confrontation in Ilorin, the capital of Kwara State. He was allegedly murdered by members of a secret cult. His assassins were said to have thrown his body in front of a mosque in the Abayawo district of Ilorin, in the state's Ilorin East Local Government district.

10. Taiye Atobiloye, a policeman serving under the Kwara State Police Command, died in a cell at the D Division of the Kogi State Police Command after being detained for being absent from duty for two days at the Zone 8 Command in Lokoja, Kogi State.