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Here is a summary of today's events from Nigerian newspapers:
1. Lai Mohammed, the minister of information and culture, advised the opposition parties to stop whining about the presidential election of 2023 and accept loss yesterday, branding charges of election rigging as "fraudulent."
2. Safiu Olaniyan, the Nigerian ambassador to the Republic of Sudan, lamented the difficulties encountered in attempting to remove Nigerians, notably students, who were stranded in Sudan due to the ongoing insurgency there. He bemoaned the fact that Nigerian students were abandoned on Sudanese streets.
3. At the NEPA Junction in the Agboroko village of the Iba Local Council Development Area of Lagos State, the body of a man whose identity has not yet been determined was discovered dangling from a rope fastened to a tree. It was learned that one of the employees at a repair business nearby discovered the body when he returned to work the following morning.
4. On Sunday night, the ruling All Progressives Congress distanced itself from the alleged dismissal of Chief Victor Giadom, the chairman of the APC South-South Zonal, and Ita Udosen, the secretary, calling the move illegal and unconstitutional.
5. The selection of the Senate Chief Whip, Orji Kalu, and Senator Sani Musa (Niger East) as the preferred candidates for Senate President and Deputy Senate President of the 10th National Assembly, respectively, will be discussed at a meeting of Northern stakeholders drawn from across party and religious lines.
6. Alhassan Ado Doguwa, the majority leader of the House of Representatives, has entered the race for speaker of the 10th Assembly. A letter of intent was delivered to members-elect by Doguwa, who is the representative of Kano State's Doguwa/Tudun Wada Federal Constituency.
7. Hudu Yunusa Ari, a lawyer who served as the suspended REC for Adamawa State, revealed that he had to release the results of 69 polling places in the April 15 supplemental election because of pressure from the security forces. In a letter to the Inspector General of Police, Ari made this claim.
8. On the western and northern borders of the two nations are more than 500 Nigerian students who were evacuated from Khartoum, the capital of the war-torn Sudan, to Egypt. It was learned that more than 100 of them are stranded due to bus prices in the town of Wadi Halfa, fewer than 100 kilometers from Egypt.
9. Two suspects were detained by agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency after they were found to be hiding cannabis in a bag of garri. According to reports, the suspects Kabiru Muhammad and Isah Muhammad were apprehended over the weekend in Kano along the Zaria-Kano Road.
10. According to reports, the Federal Government will move forward with the imposition of a 5% excise duty tax on mobile phone and Internet services. Isa Pantami, the minister of communications and digital economy, recently stated that the government has exempted the telecoms sector from excise duty tax, yet this is still the case.
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