Nigerian Newspapers: 10 Things You Need to Know this Friday, May 12, 2023

1) On Thursday, the All Progressives Congress, APC, started talks with senators running for the Senate’s presidency in the tenth National Assembly.

During a meeting with disgruntled Senate candidates in Abuja, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the party’s national chairman, stated that the party would review the protest letter submitted by the candidates as part of new consultations.

2) Boma Jumbo, a former employee, was allegedly murdered at her home in Port Harcourt, the capital of Rivers State, by a private security guard named John Danjuma. According to reports, Jumbo had previously served as the administrative director at the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital in Port Harcourt. It was gathered that Danjuma was earlier arrested and is standing trial for allegedly stealing $10,000 from the deceased.

3) The pre-hearing of the petition filed by the Peoples Democratic Party and Atiku Abubakar, its presidential candidate, against Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress has been postponed until Thursday, May 18, 2023, by the Presidential Election Petition Court.

4) The faction of the Labour Party led by Lamidi Apapa has distanced itself from calls for President-elect Bola Tinubu to delay taking office pending the outcome of petitions filed with the presidential election tribunal. The elder statesman Archbishop John Onaiyekan had earlier stated that the court should have rendered a decision on the election dispute before the next president is sworn in. Read More

5) Residents of a few northern states have been warned by the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NiMet) to get ready for heavy rain in the coming days. Thunderstorm cells are currently visible over the northern part of the country, including Borno, Taraba, Gombe, Bauchi, and Kano, according to a release issued on Thursday.

6) On Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari announced the appointment of Garba Baba Umar, a retiring assistant inspector general of police, as a senior security adviser on international police cooperation and counterterrorism in the ministry of police affairs. Read More

7) Capt. Tony Enoch, a member of the All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Council in Imo State, was murdered. Enoch, a retired military officer and relative of Hope Uzodinma, the governor of Imo State, was killed in the governor’s hometown of Oru East Local Government Area. Read More

8) The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has announced that it will publish the personal information of the candidates for governor of the states of Imo, Bayelsa, and Kogi today, Friday. Festus Okoye, the commission’s spokesperson, revealed in a statement that the publication will take place in the three states’ state capitals and local government offices.

9) Despite what the All Progressives Congress, the current government, would have Nigerians believe, Atiku Abubakar, the Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, did not lose the election. This was stated by Atiku in a speech to departing and incoming PDP-supported governors at a reception and awards ceremony held by the PDP Governors’ Forum on Thursday in Abuja.

10) A body of an unidentified man was discovered in a car on Thursday morning in the Isheri, Olowora Road, Ojodu Berger neighbourhood of Lagos. An eyewitness, who spoke with some journalists, said the man was found naked in a black Toyota car.