NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS: 10 THINGS TO KNOW ON THURSDAY MORNING
Hello and good morning! This is today's Nigerian newspaper summary:
1. Alhaja Sinatu Ojikutu, Nigeria's first female democratically elected Deputy Governor, has warned that her life is in danger as a result of the election of former Lagos State Governor Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu as President-Elect. She stated that she is planning to leave the nation if Tinubu wins the election, as she previously stated.
2. On Banana Island in Lagos State, a seven-story building under construction collapsed, trapping several workers. In a quick update Wednesday evening, the Lagos Territorial Head of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) verified the occurrence.
3. Yesterday, some state chairmen of the Labour Party (LP) chased the Lamidi Apapa-led section of the National Working Committee (NWC) away from the party's national headquarters in Abuja.
4. Senator Samuel Anyanwu, National Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), emerged yesterday as the party's consensus candidate for the governorship election in Imo State on November 11. On Wednesday, the primary election was place in the party's office in Owerri.
5. Dr. Nuhu Clark, a former Borno State Commissioner for Poverty Alleviation and State House of Assembly member-elect for Chibok Local Government Area, died in India after a long illness. He had been hospitalized for months, according to a family member, before passing suddenly on Tuesday evening in India.
$The Kano State chapter of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has petitioned a Kano Governorship Election Petition Tribunal to challenge the Independent National Electoral Commission's (INEC) decision to declare Abba Kabir Yusuf of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP) the winner of the March 18 election.
7. The Diaspora Medical Associations, an umbrella body of Nigerian medical doctors and dentists practicing outside the country, has petitioned the National Assembly about a bill that would require medical and dental graduates to serve five years of compulsory service in Nigeria before being granted full license to practice.
8. Police have arrested two people believed to be members of the Awo Hall Executives following the death of Ahize Okoli, a 500-Level Civil Engineering student at Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State. Okoli was reportedly beaten to death by a mob on suspicion of stealing a cellphone.
9. A 14-year-old secondary school student was reportedly killed, and an unknown number of people were swept away in a flood that followed a downpour in parts of Sagamu in Ogun State's Sagamu Local Government Area on Tuesday.
10. Governor Douye Diri was declared the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governorship Primary Election Committee's nominee for the November 11, 2023 governorship election in Bayelsa State yesterday
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