NIGERIAN DAILIES: FACTS YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS MORNING

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

1. The Presidential Election Petitions Court has scheduled a hearing on Monday to hear petitions contesting the proclamation of All Progressives Congress candidate Bola Tinubu as the president-elect. With this development, the anticipated legal battle between contenders contesting the conclusion of the 2023 presidential election will begin on May 8.

2. On Tuesday in Abuja, President Muhammadu Buhari claimed his administration had brought about change for Nigerians, particularly in the field of affordable housing. During the inauguration of a housing estate in Zuba, Abuja, on Tuesday, the President praised his regime's performance in office, claiming that the new housing estate was addressing multidimensional poverty among citizens.

3. On Tuesday, the police began questioning the suspended Adamawa State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Hudu Yunusa-Ari, at the Force Headquarters in Abuja, over suspected wrongdoing during the April 15 supplemental governorship election in Adamawa State. Olumuyiwa Adejobi, the Force Public Relations Officer, stated that Yunusa-Ari and other suspects were in police custody and being questioned.

4. On Tuesday in Abuja, Ebonyi State Governor and Senator-elect Dave Umahi told the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd. ), of his intention to serve as President of the 10th Senate. Umahi stated this after meeting with the President at the Aso Rock Villa, arguing that "justice, equity, and fairness" must govern the All Progressives Congress while zoning the key positions of the 10th National Assembly.

5. Delta State Police Command officers apprehended one alleged kidnapper, while three others were captured with varying degrees of gunshot wounds. The police team also discovered one AK-47 rifle, one double barrel locally produced gun, 18 rounds of ammo, and a suspected stolen GLK Benz from the suspects.

6. Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike proclaimed today a public holiday to allow the people of Rivers State to give President-elect Bola Ahmed Tinubu a resounding welcome. On Wednesday and Thursday, the President-elect will commission the Rumuola/Rumuokwuta Flyover and the ultra-modern Magistrates' Court Complex in Port Harcourt during his two-day official visit to Rivers State.

7. Yesterday, the House of Representatives urged the Central Criminal Court and the United Kingdom government to temper justice with mercy in sentencing former Deputy Senate President Senator Ike Ekweremadu, his wife, Mrs Beatrice Ekweremadu, and Dr Obinna Obeta, all of whom were found guilty of organ harvesting.

8. After several problems, the first round of Sudanese evacuees is set to arrive today. According to Mrs Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairperson of the Nigerian in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), an Air Peace aircraft landed in Egypt Friday night.

9. President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the removal of Dr. Ferdinand Giadom as Project Director of the Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP). The sack notice was spotted yesterday in a post from the Nigerian Presidency's official Twitter handle, @NGRPresident.

10. Fatima Rahman, 42, of Chad Republic, has been remanded in the Ikoyi Custodial Centre for the alleged murder of her co-wife, Adizat, at her apartment on Alejo Street, Ijede, in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State. Fatima was charged in Yaba Magistrates' Court on Tuesday before Magistrate P. E Nwaka on a single count of murder.