NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS: 10 THINGS TO KNOW ON MONDAY MORNING

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

1. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has directed security agencies to arrest and prosecute those responsible for the brutal assault on one of its national commissioners deployed to Adamawa State for Saturday's supplementary governorship election. Festus Okoye, National Commissioner of INEC, revealed this to journalists in Birnin Kebbi on Sunday.

2. Senator Dino Melaye has emerged as the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Kogi State's governorship election on November 11. The party's primary election was held under heavy security at Lokoja's Kafa's Hall event center.

3. The All Progressives Congress (APC) candidate, Dr Nasiru Idris, has been declared the winner of the Kebbi State Governorship Election by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC). According to the state's returning officer, Professor Sa'idu Yusuf, the APC candidate won the election with 409,225 votes, while his challenger, Aminu Bande of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), received 360,940 votes.

4.The Department of State Services (DSS) has announced that an investigation into an attack on one of its employees in Adamawa State has begun. This was stated by the secret police in a statement issued on Sunday evening. A DSS official was also recorded while being beaten by people suspected of working for politicians.

5. The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Candidate, Atiku Abubakar, yesterday requested that the Independent National Electoral Commission resume collation of the Adamawa governorship election immediately. INEC had paused the process after the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) pronounced the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate Aisha Binani the winner of the election.

6. Adamawa State Governor Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri has called for calm after the Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa Ari, declared Aishatu Binani of the All Progressives Congress (APC) the winner of the state's governorship election. Ari, he claimed, has been determined to test the people's tolerance since the beginning of the race.

7. Following widespread violence, the Independent National Electoral Commission has announced the cancellation of the supplementary election for the Ikono/Ini Federal Constituency in Akwa Ibom State. Dr Cyril Omorogbe, the state's Resident Electoral Commissioner, told reporters in his office in Uyo on Saturday that the rerun in the region was awful.

9. The Kaduna State Government has confirmed yet another gunman attack in the Runji village of the state's Zangon Kataf Local Government Area. Despite allegations that 22 people were slain, the state authorities merely stated that several people were killed in the Saturday incident.

10. Unknown gunmen kidnapped Popoola Olasupo, an official with the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Corps, while he was on his way to work with another member of the corps. Olasupo was reportedly abducted around 6.30 a.m. on Sunday near the Eledumare-Fidiwo axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway in Ogun State's Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area.