Mathias Baba Tsado, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for Bida, Gbako, Katcha Federal Constituency of Niger State, has accused Governor Mohammed Umaru Bago of worsening poverty, abandoning projects and failing to provide effective leadership to the state.

Accord Party presidential candidate, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, and former Director-General of the Nigerian Law School, Prof. Isa Hayatu Chiroma, SAN, have called for reforms to restore public confidence in Nigeria’s democracy.

The Federal High Court in Abuja on Tuesday fixed Nov. 20 for ruling on an application filed by Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC), to amend his suit against President Bola Tinubu and the All Progressives Congress (APC).

In today’s Nigerian newspapers review programme, Today in the News, Vanguard leads with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank warning that Artificial Intelligence (AI) could worsen the jobs crisis in Nigeria and other developing economies unless governments and businesses take urgent steps to prepare workers and deploy the technology to create employment.

Retired military personnel on Tuesday barricaded the entrance to the Military Pensions Board office in Dutse Alhaji, Abuja, protesting what they described as an unfair formula for calculating pension increases approved for military retirees.