Naija News: Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Today, Friday, 22nd September, 2023

Top Headlines from Naija News, Friday, 22nd September 2023:

1. President Bola Tinubu urgently files for a review of the judgment mandating the release of his academic records to Atiku Abubakar.

   On September 19, Judge Jeffrey Gilbert from the United States District Court directed Chicago State University to provide Mr. Tinubu’s academic records to his Nigerian political adversary as part of an ongoing election challenge in Nigeria People’s Gazzete reports.

2. The Nigeria Police Force have successfully conducted an autopsy on the corpse in Mohbad. The force made this known in a post on its official X account on Thursday night.

   Born Ilerioluwa Olademeji Aloba, Mohbad’s body was exhumed Thursday morning following the controversy surrounding his demise.

3. President Bola Tinubu has urged Nigerians to put an end to ethnic profiling and discrimination on Nigerians to eschew ethnic profiling and discrimination, asserting that all Nigerians are “a single family.”

   Speaking on Wednesday in New York, the nation’s leader eschewed youths to unite and stop ethnic profiling.

4. The Deputy Governor of Edo State, Philip Shaibu, on Thursday, reportedly pleaded for forgiveness from the state Governor, Godwin Obaseki, over their political differences.

   Shaibu, who is currently addressing newsmen at his residence in Benin City, the state capital, urged his boss to forgive and forget.

5. The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi has given a two weeks ultimatum to contractors handling remedial works on Federal Roads in Abuja and Port Harcourt.

   Umahi insisted that the contractors must complete their respective projects within two weeks.

6. The Enugu State Governorship Election Tribunal has upheld the victory of Governor Peter Mbah in the March 18, 2023 governorship election.

   Delivering the judgement on Thursday, the Chairman of the panel of the Tribunal, Justice Kudirat Akano dismissed the allegation of Hon. Chijioke Edeoga/LP that Governor Peter Mbah’s NYSC discharge certificate was forged.

7. The management of Lagos University Teaching Hospital (LUTH) has denied claims that one of its medical doctors, Michael Umoh, died after a 72-hour call.

   IDOMA VOICE gathered that Michael died on Sunday, September 17, during a church service at the United Evangelical Church, after reportedly working for 72 hours non-stop at the hospital.

8. Former presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina has said the Nigerian media deliberately misquoted his statements when he was working for former President Muhammadu Buhari.

   Adesina stated this on Wednesday at a media chat organised by the Association of Veteran Journalists in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.

9. The Lagos State House of Assembly has appointed chairmen for all its standing committees in the 10th Assembly.

   The appointments were disclosed by the Speaker of the House, Rt. Hon. Mudashiru Obasa during plenary on Thursday. He charged the newly appointed chairmen to be alive to their responsibilities and oversight functions.

10. A chieftain of the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP), Abass Onilewura, has accused the presidential candidate of the party in the 2023 election, Rabiu Kwankwaso, as the brain behind the sacking of Kano State Governor, Abba Kabir Yusuf, by the tribunal.

    IDOMA VOICE reported that Nasir Gawuna of the All Progressives Congress (APC) was declared the winner.