NIGERIAN DAILIES: FACTS YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF TODAY

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Good day! The summary from Nigerian Newspapers for today is as follows:

1. According to the Code of Conduct Bureau, the 28 newly elected governors and the president-elect Asiwaju Bola Tinubu must register their assets by May 29. Other officials, such as senators and representatives-elect, are anticipated to disclose their assets before June 5, when they would be sworn in, according to the CCB spokesman, Mrs. Veronica Kato.

2. Pre-hearing of the petitions filed by opposition parties contesting the results of the February 25 presidential election will commence today at the Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, Abuja.

3. On Sunday, Nobel laureate Prof. Wole Soyinka had a visit from Labour Party presidential contender Peter Obi. The dramatist had a run-in with the Obidients movement, as Obi's fans were known, one month before to the visit.

4. APC North-Central supporters have protested what they claim is the exclusion of the region from leadership of the 10th National Assembly, which will be inaugurated on June 5. The stakeholders all voiced their disapproval of the alleged APC leadership decision over the Senate presidency and the role of the House of Representatives Speaker in separate press conferences on Sunday in Abuja.

5. On Sunday afternoon, a plane crashed-landed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja, causing chaos after a tire caught fire. When the event occurred, the aircraft was on its way to Yola, Adamawa State.

6. On Sunday morning, 410 Nigerians who had been evacuated from Sudan came in the fourth group. On Sunday, 844 evacuees in total are anticipated to return. From the Sudanese side of the Wadi Halfa border, they were transported in 16 buses to the Aswan International Airport in Egypt.

7. According to reports, hundreds of terrorists have shifted from Zamfara to regions between Safana and Batsari Local Government Areas of Katsina State under the leadership of infamous bandit Dan-karami. According to locals, the terrorists were fleeing a military assault in Zamfara.

8. According to Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), Minister of State for Labour and Employment, those pushing for the resolution of presidential election petitions before May 29 are "plainly ignorant or crassly mischievous." Keyamo believes that the opposition parties' petitions opposing the election of Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) president should not be hastily filed.

9. During a gunfight between members of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command and some kidnappers, Tama Jonathan, a victim of kidnapping, was slain. The FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, revealed this in a statement on Sunday and said that the operation resulted in the release of at least 58 kidnappees.

10. A to-be-determined On Sunday, a tricycle carrying a family of four was crushed by a sport utility vehicle along Isheri-Igando Road in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State, leaving a 10-year-old boy dead. Around 7am, the incident reportedly occurred near the Idowu Egba end of the road.