NIGERIAN NEWSPAPERS: 10 THINGS TO KNOW ON MONDAY MORNING

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

1. There are indications that the Federal Government is passing through the Egyptian town of Luxor. It was learned that the Federal Government was seeking Egypt's assistance in evacuating approximately 5,500 trapped Nigerians from Sudan so that they might be relocated to Luxor.

2. On Sunday, another three-story structure fell in Lagos State's Apapa Government Reserved Area. The structure under construction, located on Ladipo Street in Oluwole Street, Apapa, crashed in barely two weeks after a seven-story skyscraper collapsed in the state's Banana Island.

3. Zamfara State Governor Bello Matawalle has approved the reinstatement of Yandoto's suspended Emir, Alhaji Aliyu Maraca. This was stated in a statement signed on Sunday in Gusau by the Secretary to the State Government, Alhaji Kabiru Balarabe. Aliyu was suspended for turbaning a drug lord.

4. Mr Peter Obi, the Labour Party's presidential candidate, has accused desperate politicians of using politics to sow seeds of strife among Nigerians. Obi, a former governor of Anambra State, was in Onitsha to spend the Sallah holiday with the Muslim community on Sunday. Nigerians, he said, are one.

5. Seven people have been paraded by the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in Ekiti State for suspected stealing, fake alert, and drug-related offenses. Fakuade Ayodeji, 38, Micheal Samuel, 39, Bamidele Atowoju, 25, Pelumi Ojo, 23, Temitope Oke, 32, and Makinde Oluwaropo, 26 are the accused. They were apprehended in Ado Ekiti and Ondo State, respectively.

6. Senator Chimaroke Nnamani, former governor of Enugu State, has urged Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate Peter Obi to withdraw his suit against President-elect Bola Tinubu. He urged Obi and his supporters to join others in celebrating Tinubu's triumph, despite the fact that the LP candidate lacked the spread and national appeal to win the presidential election.

7. The All Progressives Congress (APC) has disbanded the Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council (PCC), which was established last year to oversee the party's presidential election in 2023. The dissolution was announced in a statement signed by the organization's Director General, Governor Simon Lalong, and Secretary James Faleke.

8. Over the weekend, power generation to the national system fell below 4,000 megawatts, leaving clients around the country with insufficient electricity supplies. Data checks by the National System Operator, NSO, an independent part of the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN, revealed that just 18 of the country's 25 power plants supplied power to the system.

9. On Sunday, a bus crashed and caught fire along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, killing seven people, including two children. The incident, which occurred along the OPIC axis of the highway, was alleged to have injured 14 other passengers.

10. Supremacy confrontations involving members of the Aiye and Eiye confraternities in ljanikin, in the Ojo Local Government Area of Lagos State, have resulted in the deaths of two people, including a Lagos State University undergraduate, Kamoru Lasisi, and a tiler, Lateef Atanda. It was discovered that members of the cult groups had been fighting each other for over two months.