Top 10 Nigerian Newspapers Headlines For Today Wednesday 25th May 2022

Nigerian Newspapers Headlines For Today, Wednesday 25th May 2022 can be accessed below.

1. The Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have warned the Coalition of Northern Groups against embarking on killing any Igbo, saying they should not embark on a fight that would not end. The organisation was reacting to threats by the CNG to retaliate against the alleged killing of their kinsmen in the South-East.

2. Gov. Okezie Ikpeazu, on Tuesday, won the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket to contest for Abia South Senatorial District seat in the 2023 general election. Gov. Ikpeazu, the lone aspirant, emerged unopposed as the party’s candidate at the Enyimba International Stadium, Aba.

3. The Lagos State Emergency Agency has debunked reports that a plane crash-landed in the Ikeja area of the State on Tuesday. The agency officials noted when speaking with reporters yesterday that nothing of such happened.

4. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday arrested Rochas Okorocha, an All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential aspirant. Operatives of the commission took over his Abuja premises on Tuesday after the former Imo Governor allegedly refused to honour an invitation.

5. There was pandemonium in the Ibafo axis of Ogun State on Tuesday as soldiers and suspected cultists clashed. It was gathered that one soldier was shot dead during the clash.

6. A former lawmaker representing Kogi West, Senator Dino Melaye, has lost the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) ticket to a serving House of Representatives member, Hon. T. J. Yusuf. In the primary election conducted on Tuesday, Hon. T. J. Yusuf defeated Sen. Dino Melaye by 163 to 99 votes to pick the PDP ticket.

7. The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has given the sum of N27.2 billion being the operating surplus from 2017 to 2022, while N9.7 billion was used for capital projects in the same period.

Professor Is-haq Oloyede, the Registrar of JAMB who revealed the development on Tuesday, said the sum of N3 billion operating surplus was remitted to the Government in 2022.

He gave the breakdown of the remittances as follows: 2017-N7.8 billion, 2018-N5.2 billion, 2019-3.76 billion, 2020 – N4 billion, 2021 – N3.5 billion and 2022 – N3 billion.

The registrar said that the Minister of Education Malam Adamu Adamu has approved the establishment of an Advanced Level (A-Level) certificates data bank in the country in order to curtail the use of fake certificates by candidates in securing admissions into tertiary institutions in the country.

8. The Federal Government, yesterday, said it will spend about N34 billion as arrears of Minimum Wage Consequential Adjustments in the education sector effective from 2019. The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige said that this was aimed at resolving the lingering crisis in the sector, particularly with the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU).

9. A frontline aspirant for Southern Borno senatorial district on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Alhaji Idris Durkwa, on Sunday, escaped death when some unknown gunmen ambushed his convoy with his teaming supporters and opened fire along the Maiduguri-Damaturu road, leading to the death of two policemen, with several others sustaining various degrees of injuries.

10. Justice Peter Lifu of the Federal High Court, Lagos, has restrained a former chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) Lagos branch, Alhaji Musilu Akinsanya, a.k.a. MC Oluomo and seven others from collecting union dues and levies from commercial drivers that are non-union members in all motor parks in Lagos State.

Infoexpert24 reports that the judge issued the restrain on Tuesday.

Justice Lifu gave the order by granting an ex parte application in a suit filed by a lawyer, Olukoya Ogungbeje.

Ogungbeje had instituted the suit for himself and a new transport union, Transport Union Society of Nigeria (TUSON).

Those are the top Nigerian newspapers’ headlines for today. Read more Nigerian news on Infoexpert24. See you again tomorrow.