NIGERIAN DAILIES: FACTS TO KNOW ON MONDAY MORNING

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

1. Lai Mohammed, Minister of Information and Culture, ordered opposition parties yesterday to quit complaining about the 2023 presidential election and accept loss, calling charges that the elections were rigged "fraudulent.

2. The Nigerian Ambassador to the Republic of Sudan, Safiu Olaniyan, has criticised the hiccups in efforts to remove Nigerians, particularly students, who are trapped in Sudan due to the country's ongoing insurgency. He bemoaned the stranding of Nigerian students on Sudanese streets.

3. The body of an unidentified man was discovered swinging from a rope attached to a tree at the NEPA Junction in Agboroko, Iba Local Council Development Area, Lagos State. It was reported that one of the workers at a mechanic shop near the scene of the incident discovered the body when he returned to work the next morning.

4. On Sunday night, the ruling All Progressives Congress distanced itself from the alleged dismissal of APC South-South Zonal Chairman, Chief Victor Giadom, and Secretary, Ita Udosen, calling the conduct illegal and unconstitutional.

5. Northern stakeholders from various political parties and religions are expected to meet to discuss the Senate Chief Whip, Orji Kalu, and Senator Sani Musa (Niger East) as preferred candidates for Senate President and Deputy Senate President of the 10th National Assembly, respectively.

6. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, Majority Leader of the House of Representatives, has entered the contest for the 10th Assembly Speaker. Doguwa, who represents Kano State's Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency, has sent a letter of intent to members-elect.

7. Hudu Yunusa Ari, a lawyer and the suspended Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) for Adamawa State, has claimed that he announced the results of 69 voting units in the April 15 supplementary election due to security pressure. Ari wrote to the Inspector General of Police about it.

8. Over 500 Nigerian students being evacuated from Khartoum, the capital of war-torn Sudan, to Egypt have become trapped on the two nations' northern and western borders. Over 100 of them have been reported to be trapped in a village called Wadi Halfa, less than 100 kilometers from Egypt, due to bus fares.

9. National Drug Law Enforcement Agency agents apprehended two individuals for concealing cannabis in a bag of garri. The suspects, Kabiru Muhammed and Isah Muhammed, were reported to have been apprehended over the weekend on the Zaria-Kano Road in Kano.

10. The Federal Government is apparently planning to implement a 5% excise duty tax on mobile telephone and Internet services. Despite a recent announcement by the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, that the government has exempted the telecoms sector from excise duty tax, this remains the case.