1. President Muhammadu Buhari, will on Tuesday (today) in Abuja, confer national honours on at least 447 persons. Those on the honours list include Nigerians and those tagged “Friends of Nigeria.”
2. Family members of a 40-year-old man, Adebiyi Ogunyele, have accused the Onigua of Iggua, Oba Talabi Dosunmu, and some chiefs in the Yewa North Local Government Area of Ogun State of killing him. It was gathered that Adebiyi, an herbalist, was alleged to have been possessed by a spirit known as Jemego and was sent to an evil forest where he was allegedly killed.
3. Respite has come the way of stranded Abuja residents as the flood on the Lokoja-Abuja dual carriage way has eased out. Recall that fuel laden trucks were unable to access the nation’s capital due to the flood causing scarcity in Abuja.
4. Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Presidential Candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), on Monday, described the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as a party of termites. Tinubu said this during the inauguration of the APC Women Campaign Council at the presidential villa in Abuja.
5. The Coalition of Northern Groups, CNG, has appealed to Nigerians not to repeat the mistake of 2015 in the coming 2023 general elections by placing competence, capacity and integrity above every other consideration in the choice of leaders.
6. About 2000 All Progressives Congress (APC) members in the Dass Local Government Area of Bauchi State have dumped the party for the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state. While receiving the decampees at the official commissioning ceremony of the Bundilin Dutse PDP office in Bundot ward, the PDP Chairman of Dass local government, Alhaji Shatima Sani Korau, commended them for joining his party.
7. A notorious terrorist leader, Ali Dogo and dozens of his fighters have been neutralized in Kaduna State. Dogo and his gang members were killed in an air raid conducted by Operation Whirl Punch.
8. The Academic Staff Union of Universities has hailed the House of Representatives for its intervention in the protracted crisis between university lecturers and the Federal Government. The President of ASUU, Prof Emmanuel Osodeke, said, “For the first time, we have seen light at the end of the tunnel.”
9. Ahead of the 2023 elections, Governors, ex-governors, and top chieftains of the Peoples Democratic Party in the camp of the presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar, and his running mate, Ifeanyi Okowa, on Monday, stormed Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, in no fewer than 15 private and chartered jets for the formal inauguration of the party’s campaign.
10. The Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council on Monday labelled a former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Yakubu Dogara, and some Christians in the ruling All Progressives Congress impostors. This was contained in a statement issued on Monday by the Director of Media and Publicity of Tinubu-Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Bayo Onanuga.
11. Peter Obi’s supporters stage protest against Emeka Ihedioha in Abia
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