Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know Wednesday morning
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday presided over the National Caucus meeting of the All Progressives Congress, APC, marking the first of such gathering since he assumed office on May 29, 2023. The Caucus meeting preceded the party’s National Executive Council, NEC, scheduled to hold at the party’s secretariat at Wuse 2, Abuja, today.
2. The Senate has stated that the proposed Tax Reform Bills will play a crucial role in helping Nigeria achieve the $1 trillion economy goal set by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration. The chairman of the Senate Committee on Finance, Senator Sani Musa, made this known on Tuesday while addressing reporters in Abuja.
3. The Federal Competition and Consumer Protection Commission has summoned the Chief Executive Officer of MultiChoice Nigeria to explain the company’s proposed subscription price increase set to take off on March 1. Exercising its mandate under sections 32 and 33 of the FCCPA, the Federal Government agency directed the company’s CEO to attend an investigative hearing at the commission’s headquarters tomorrow in Abuja.
4. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, says registration period for the 2025 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination, UTME, which began on February 3, will conclude on March 8, 2025. JAMB Spokesperson, Dr Fabian Benjamin, in a statement, said the deadline had been clearly communicated in all advertisements and the official calendar for the 2025 UTME exercise.
5. The Senate has unanimously voted to refer Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP, Kogi Central) to the Committee on Ethics, Privileges, and Public Petitions, for disciplinary review, following a standoff over seating arrangements. Chaired by Senator Neda Imaseun (LP, Edo South), the committee has been given two weeks to report back on its findings.
6. The Niger State Police Command has detained the officer whose stray bullet hit an immigration personnel while attempting to disperse hoodlums in Minna, Niger State. The Assistant Superintendent of Immigration (ASI), Christian Oladimeji, sustained a gunshot wound after a police patrol team was attacked by hoodlums while recovering suspected stolen materials.
7. Former President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday said the nation was not getting accurate vote counts during elections due to the involvement of those he described as ‘ghost voters.’ He also said it is better and more honourable for the chairman and other officials of the Independent National Electoral Commission to resign rather than yield to pressure to manipulate elections
8. Four traders at Ogbo Ogwu Bridge Head Market in Onitsha, Anambra State, have dragged the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, Standards Organisation of Nigeria, the NAFDAC Zonal Director, South-East, Dr Martins Iluyomade and the Anambra State Commandant of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps to a Federal High Court sitting in Awka, over unlawful interference in their fundamental human rights.
9. The Magistrate Court sitting in Yaba, Lagos, has acquitted popular singer, Abdulazeez Fashola, popularly called Naira Marley, over the death of Ilerioluwa Aloba, who was better known as Mohbad. Magistrate Ejiro Kubenje, in his ruling, said Naira Marley had no case to answer.
10. Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan on Tuesday filed a defamation lawsuit against Senate President Godswill Akpabio and his aide, Mfon Patrick, seeking N100 billion in general damages and N300 million in litigation costs. The controversy over her seat relocation in the Senate had escalated following a Facebook post by Patrick, which she alleges defamed her character.
