The top summary from Nigerian newspapers for Tuesday, November 12th, 2024, can be accessed on this platform.
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Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers.
1. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) says it has delivered sensitive materials that will be used for Saturday’s Governorship Election in Ondo State. The materials, according to a post on INEC’s X handle on Monday, were transported by the Nigerian Air Force and have been received by officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria.
2. The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria, IPMAN, on Monday secured an agreement with Dangote Refinery to lift products directly. Abubakar Garima, IPMAN National President, announced this on Monday after a meeting of the National Working Committee of the Association in Abuja.
3. The United States of America has offered a $25,000 reward for anyone who could provide it with information that could facilitate the arrest of a Nigerian, Olalekan Abimbola Olawusi, who is reportedly facing trial for the alleged murder of his child.
4. Four persons lost their lives in no fewer than four crashes that occurred in different parts of Lagos and Ogun states on Monday. The accidents, according to different statements from the Commandant of the Ogun State Traffic Compliance and Enforcement Agency, Seni Ogunyemi, and the spokesperson for the Lagos State Traffic Management Authority, Adebayo Taofiq, also left seven persons with varying degrees of injuries.
5. President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, called on all leaders and stakeholders in the All Progressives Congress in Oyo State to put aside their differences and work together with a view to wresting power from the ruling Peoples Democratic Party in 2027. He made the call at the maiden edition of the annual lecture series of the former governor of the state between 1999 and 2003, Lam Adesina, held in Ibadan, the state capital.
6. The presidential candidate of the Labour Party in the 2023 presidential election, Peter Obi, has called on the people of Ondo State to shun acts of vote trading in Saturday’s governorship election. Obi who expressed concern over the state of democracy in Nigeria said those buying votes were using stolen money to perpetrate the act and must be resisted.
7. No fewer than 13 persons have been killed in a collapsed mining site in Bassa Local Government Area (LGA) of Plateau. Dr Joshua Riti, the Chairman of the LGA, confirmed this to newsmen on Monday in Jos. Riti, who expressed sadness over the number of deaths recorded, said that the incident occurred last Saturday.
8. Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State has lifted the suspension on the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice and Public Order, Mr Fidelis Mnyim. Alia announced the reinstatement on Monday in Makurdi during the state executive council meeting, which he presided over.
9. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, has summoned a Nigerien national, Ibrahim Mohammad, his family, and other guests, over alleged naira abuse at his wedding to Amina Babagana Zannah, in Kano.
10. The Naira on Monday appreciated to N1,730 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,740 per dollar last weekend However, the Naira depreciated to N1,681.42 per dollar in the Nigerian Autonomous Foreign Exchange Market, NAFEM.
