NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS: 10 THINGS TO KNOW ON THURSDAY MORNING
Hello and good morning! This is today's Nigerian newspaper summary:
1. Kogi State Governor Yahaya Bello has named his preferred successor, but it is not Edward Onoja, a close ally who served as Chief of Staff and became Deputy Governor following the impeachment of Simon Achuba in 2019. Ahmed Usman- Ododo, the state Auditor-General, was named as Bello's favored replacement.
2. The Nigeria Police Force dismissed officers attached to Dauda Adamu Kahutu Rarara, a famous praise singer for the ruling All Progressives Congress. The officers were fired for wasting live ammunition, according to Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the force's spokesman, who announced the decision at Force Headquarters in Abuja.
3. According to Dr. Uche Rowland Ojinmah, President of the Nigerian Medical Association, despite brain drain in the health sector, many qualified doctors in Nigeria are still unemployed. He stated this while discussing the flight of Nigerian medical practitioners to better pastures abroad.
4. In Saturday's supplementary elections, political parties including the All Progressives Congress and the Peoples Democratic Party will compete for 93 legislative seats in federal and state legislatures.
On the same day, supplementary governorship elections will be held in Adamawa and Kebbi states.
5. The Central Bank of Nigeria has proposed that banks transfer funds in dormant accounts for up to ten years into a trust fund account. This is stated in the recently exposed draft of guidelines on the management of dormant accounts, unclaimed balances, and other financial assets in Nigerian banks and other financial institutions.
6. Three people were slain and two others were abducted when gunmen suspected of being cultists stormed the Ubeta community in Rivers State's Ahoada West Local Government Area on Wednesday. In what appeared to be retaliation, the gunmen plundered the community.
7. Mr. Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), stated yesterday that he has not received an apology from the British government for his wrongful detention at Heathrow Airport in London last week.
8. The spat between President-elect Bola Tinubu and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate in the February 25 election, raged on yesterday, with Tinubu describing Atiku as a serial loser and an unstable politician who could not have won the election.
9. During an attack by suspected terrorists, eight people were killed in Atak'Njei Village in Kaduna State's Zango Kataf Local Government Area, LGA. This comes after forces from Operation Whirl Punch intercepted a big stockpile of weaponry and ammunition in the state yesterday.
10. The Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, has advised the Federal Government not to consider removing the fuel subsidy in the absence of local refining capacity, citing the socioeconomic repercussions for businesses and ordinary Nigerians.
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