Nigerian Newspapers: 10 things you need to know this Friday morning

Happy morning! The summary from Nigerian Newspapers for today is as follows:

1. The sale of Polaris Bank has been completed, according to the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). Yesterday, Osita Nwanisobi, the director of corporate communications at CBN, revealed this in a statement.

2. According to Nigeria’s First Lady, Aisha Buhari, she is unsure if the government has lived up to the high expectations Nigerians have of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. This was the justification for Aisha’s apology to Nigerians, she said in a BBC interview.

3. After only 45 days in office, Liz Truss, the prime minister of the United Kingdom, announced her resignation. According to the BBC, she resigned after a crucial minister left and MPs rebelled in disorderly parliamentary votes.

4. Nigerian military personnel participating in Operation Hadarin Daji have taken out a known bandit in Zamfara. Ibrahim Chire, the leader of the bandits, terrorised the general districts of Gando, Gwashi, Bukkuyum, and Anka. The terrorist was shot and killed by the military, according to a statement released Thursday night by Maj.-Gen. Must Danmadami, Director of Defence Media Operations.

5. The Police Trust Fund has come under fire from members of the Senate Public Accounts Committee for spending N550 million of the N3.2 billion it received from Service Wide Votes on office remodelling and furniture. Regarding the N5 trillion in Service Wide Votes (SWV) spending between 2017 and 2021, the committee is looking into 252 agencies.

6. The Federal Government has appealed the Court of Appeal decision on October 13 that exonerated Nnamdi Kanu, the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, on seven different grounds. It requested that the verdict be overturned and that the trial court resume hearing the case against the respondent.

7. On Thursday, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, the national chairman of the All Progressives Congress, shot down rumours that he had replaced six departmental directors at the secretariat who had been suspended with friends and allies. At a media discussion with journalists that took place on Thursday at the party’s headquarters in Abuja, Adamu clarified the situation.

8. Prof. Benard Odoh, the All Progressives Grand Alliance’s (APGA) candidate for governor, nearly escaped being shot dead by hoodlums on Thursday in Ebonyi State’s Izzi Local Government Area. Odoh, who described his ordeal to reporters in Abakaliki, claimed that he received a panicked phone from his supporters informing him that the council chairman of the Izzi LGA had forbidden him from travelling to or conducting campaigning in Izzi territory.

9. Yesterday, when crowds gathered to mark the second anniversary of the #EndSARS protest, many individuals were hurt when the police shot tear gas canisters at them. The police were also accused of shooting firearms outside the teargas canisters, sometimes known as smoke, to scatter the enormous crowd that gathered at the Lekki Tollgate in Lagos.

10. Manchester United announced yesterday that Cristiano Ronaldo will not go with them to Chelsea on Sunday. In a statement issued by the club on Thursday, this was confirmed.