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A Very good morning y’all and welcome to curated top Headlines on Nigerian Newspapers today December 20, 2022.

What Nigerian Newspapers are Saying?

1) A media report that “over 100 northerners were killed in the South-East last week” has been refuted as “a lie from the pit of hell” by the leading Igbo socio-cultural organisation, Worldwide.

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2) Massive demonstrations rocked Abuja yesterday after it was revealed that the Department of State Service, DSS, had allegedly accused Mr. Godwin , the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, , of financing terrorism and other crimes it described as economic crimes of a national security nature.

However, the DSS declined to confirm or refute reports that it had brought charges against the CBN governor that appeared to be related to financing terrorism.

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3) There is no turning back, according to Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the chairman of the (), despite the fact that recent initiatives of the electoral body, particularly the war against vote buying, have not been well received by those who may not be committed to the expansion of the electoral system and the consolidation of democracy.

4) It is rumoured that the (LP) is thinking about hiring someone to succeed as director general of its 2023 presidential campaign council.

On Monday, a party source confirmed to Newsmen that negotiations to replace Okupe are already under way.

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5) The Department of State Services (DSS) requested that the Federal High Court in Abuja arrest and detain Godwin Emefiele, the governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

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Justice JT Tsoho, the chief judge, denied the ex parte motion made by an applicant in the respondent’s absence on the grounds that the secret police had failed to present sufficient proof to support its claims that Emefiele had engaged in the financing of terrorism and other economic crimes.

6) Femi Fani-Kayode, a spokesperson for the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential campaign council, criticised Senator Ibrahim Shekarau for saying that , the party’s presidential candidate, is unqualified to lead Nigeria.

In a press conference on Sunday, Shekarau, a former governor of Kano State, asserted that Tinubu is gravely ill and unfit to serve as Nigeria’s next president.

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7) For defacing a Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) billboard in the state, Gabriel Orupou (alias Alaye) was given a two-year prison term and/or a N100,000 fine by an area court in Bukuru, Jos South LGA of Plateau State.

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Dadin Kowa resident Orupou was convicted of criminal conspiracy.

8) Ibikunle Amosun, a former governor of Ogun State and a senator for the Ogun Central Senatorial District, stormed Abeokuta on Monday with hundreds of his supporters.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) was ordered by the Abeokuta High Court to remove the names of his African Democratic Congress (ADC) candidates from its list of candidates running in the general elections of 2023 just two weeks prior to this gathering.

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9) The Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) governorship candidate Muhammad Sa’idu Gumburawa and the entire party apparatus in Sokoto State have united to form the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the state ahead of the general election of next year.

10) Okupe was granted permission to leave after successfully paying his fine ahead of schedule.

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According to a source, “Okupe has paid; they came back with the bank papers at 4:25 p.m. Everyone signed it, including the attorney for the EFCC, and the court processed it.

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