Nigerian Newspapers: Our Top 10 stories you need to know this Monday

1. The Code of Conduct Bureau has said the President-elect, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, the Vice President-elect, Kashim Shettima and 28 incoming governors must declare their assets before May 29. According to the CCB spokesperson, Mrs Veronica Kato, other officials, including senators-elect and Reps-elect, are expected to declare their assets before June 5 when they would be sworn in.
2. The Presidential Election Petitions Tribunal, Abuja, will today begin pre-hearing in the petitions filed by opposition parties challenging the outcome of the February 25 presidential election.
3. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Peter Obi, on Sunday, paid a courtesy visit to the Nobel laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka. The visit is coming one month after the playwright clashed with the Obidients movement, a nickname adopted by Obi’s supporters.
4. Stakeholders of the All Progressives Congress in the North-Central have protested an alleged exclusion of the zone from the leadership of the 10th National Assembly, which will be inaugurated on June 5. The stakeholders, in separate press conferences in Abuja on Sunday, were unanimous in faulting the reported decision of the APC leadership on the Senate presidency and the position of the Speaker of the House of Representatives.
5. An airplane crash-landed on Sunday afternoon, creating panic at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja after the tyre burst into flames. The aircraft arrived from Yola, Adamawa State when the incident happened.
6. The fourth batch of 410 Nigerians evacuated from Sudan arrived on Sunday morning. A total of 844 evacuees are expected back on Sunday. They were conveyed from the Sudanese side of the Wadi Halfa border to the Aswan International Airport, Egypt in 16 buses to the Aswan International Airport.
7. Hundreds of terrorists led by a notorious bandit, Ɗan-ƙarami, have reportedly relocated from Zamfara to areas between Safana and Batsari Local Government Areas of Katsina State. Villagers said the terrorists were escaping from military onslaught in Zamfara.
8. Those calling for the determination of presidential election petitions before May 29 are “plainly ignorant or crassly mischievous”, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Mr. Festus Keyamo (SAN), has said. In Keyamo’s view, it is not in opposition parties’ interest for their petitions against the victory of President-elect Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC) to be rushed.
9. A kidnap victim identified as Tama Jonathan has been killed during a gun duel between operatives of the Federal Capital Territory Police Command and some kidnappers. Disclosing this in a statement on Sunday, the FCT Police Public Relations Officer, SP Josephine Adeh, said the operation led to the rescue of at least 58 abductees.
10. A yet-to-be-identified 10-year-old lost his life on Sunday after a Sport Utility Vehicle crushed a tricycle conveying a family of four along Isheri-Igando Road in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State. It was gathered that the incident happened at the Idowu Egba end of the road around 7am.

Comments

comments