1. The legal teams of the presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Labour Party, LP, Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi, respectively, on Friday confirmed that they have received the Certified True Copies of the judgment of the Presidential Election Petition Court. This has enabled them to prepare for appeal.
3. An unidentified man was electrocuted while trying to steal transformer cables in the early hours of Friday on the premises of the Niger State Printing Press in Minna. It was learnt that the corpse of the man was found hanging on the transformer on Friday morning. Head of the Legal Unit of the Abuja Electricity Distribution Company, Aminu Ubandoma, confirmed the incident.
5. Seventeen people were feared dead after a boat conveying 23 passengers capsized in Adamawa State. A witness, Faisal Rugange, said the boat conveying locals capsized in Njuwa Lake across Rugange village in Yola South Local Government Area just before noon on Friday, when the victims were going to Yola town for business.
7. Security was on Friday beefed up at the Fountain of Life Church, Ilupeju, Lagos as the funeral rites for Late Pastor Taiwo Odukoya commenced with a service of songs and night of tributes. At the service of songs, tributes, tears flowed freely from clerics, colleagues, mentees who praised the clergyman for the roles he performed in their various lives.