Nigerian News, Nigerian Newspapers, and Naija News Today Thursday

Nigerian News, Nigerian Newspapers Naija news today Thursday, can be accessed below as curated by ENigeria Newspaper.

1. Peter Obi, Presidential candidate of Labour Party has now initiated legal process against Peoples Gazette.
You would recall that only days back, an audio recording where Peter Obi was heard in a purported discussion with Bishop Oyedepo asking for his help get Christian votes, went viral on the internet.

“Let me reiterate that the audio call being circulated is fake, and at no time throughout the campaign and now did I ever say, think, or even imply that the 2023 election is, or was a religious war.”
“The attempts to manipulate Nigerians is very sad and wicked. Our legal team have been instructed to take appropriate legal actions against Peoples Gazette and others,” Obi says

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2. Tinubu’s Cabinet: Insiders have now confirmed to ENigeria Newspaper why Sanusi Lamido Sanusi will most likely return as the next Governor of Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).
ENigeria Newspaper has it on good authority that Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the president-elect of Nigeria, is already assembling his cabinet. There are also strong indications that he may not be including any member of President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration into his cabinet.

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3. A Federal Capital Territory (FCT) High Court has restrained Julius Abure from parading himself as the National Chairman of the Labour Party (LP). He was restrained alongside three other officials of the party over alleged forgery.

4. Former President, Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday wrote a letter to the Chief Court Clerk in London, United Kingdom over the trial of the former Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu who was convicted of organ trafficking in the UK alongside his wife, Beatrice. Obasanjo begged the UK government to temper justice with mercy.

5. The Federal Government has secured the sum of $800 million from the World Bank under the National Social Investment Programme as part of palliatives to cushion the negative effects of the plan to remove subsidy on the petroleum products by June 2023. The Minister of Finance, Budget, and National Planning, Hajiya Zainab Ahmed, announced this Wednesday.

6. The Lagos State Magistrates’ Court in Yaba, on Wednesday, ordered that the Eze Igbo of Ajao Estate, Fredrick Nwajagu, be remanded at the Ikoyi Correctional Centre. Nwajagu was arrested and arraigned following a viral video, in which he threatened to invite members of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, to Lagos to secure properties of Igbo people.

7. The candidate of the Labour Party in the February 25 presidential election, Peter Obi, has said the leaked audio of an alleged conversation between him and the founder of Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, is fake. Obi, in a statement he personally signed on Wednesday, said at no point in his “issue-based campaign” did he ever refer to the election as a religious war.

8. The All Progressives Congress (APC) National Chairman, Abdullahi Adamu, has attributed the party’s loss in the governorship election in Kano State to selfishness of some party members. In an interview with BBC Hausa service, the party chairman said it is sad for the party to lose an important state like Kano, adding that the party would take action on the erring members.

9. The apex Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, tackled Lai Mohammed, the Minister of Information, on Wednesday over his stance that the 2023 general election was credible. Afenifere, in a statement issued by its Secretary-General, Sola Ebiseni, stated that the minister was not sincere in his claims.

10. The Election Petitions Tribunal sitting in Umuahia on Wednesday granted the prayers of the Labour Party and Abia State governor-elect, Alex Otti, to jointly inspect the election materials with the Peoples Democratic Party. The court further directed that the Independent National Electoral Commission should avail the Labour Party the Certified True Copy of all governorship nominations from the late Prof. Uche Ikonne to Okey Ahiwe.

11. Men of the Zamfara State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defense Corps have arrested three suspects for their alleged involvement in printing and spending fake naira and dollar notes. The command’s spokesperson, Ikor Oche, identified the suspects as Kamalu Sani, Uzaifa Muazu and Suleiman Yusuf.

12. The Federal Operations Unit, Zone ’C’, Owerri, of the Nigeria Customs Service intercepted contraband goods valued at N2.8 billion between January 25 and March 25. The unit also arrested 13 suspected smugglers during the period.

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