Happy morning! Today’s Nigerian newspapers summary is as follows:
1. The Inspector-General of Police, Usman Alkali Baba, was convicted to three months in prison by a Federal High Court in Abuja for defying a legitimate court order. In a judgement issued on Tuesday by Justice M. O. Olajuwon, the court ruled that the IGP should be committed to prison and remanded in custody for three months, or until he obeys an order issued on October 21, 2011.
2. According to President Muhammadu Buhari, weapons from the raging conflict between Russia and Ukraine are now leaking into the Lake Chad Basin region. The Lake Chad region in West and Central Africa is an economically and socially linked territory that includes Cameroon, Chad, Niger, and Nigeria.
3. Victoria Chintex, a Labour Party (LP) leader in Kaura Local Government Area of Kaduna State, was assassinated. Edward Buju, the Party’s Publicity Secretary in the Southern Kaduna Senatorial Zone, revealed this in a statement on Tuesday.
4. Prof Mahmood Yakubu, Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), said arsonists destroying the commission’s buildings around the country will not prevent the 2023 elections from taking place. He said on Tuesday in Abeokuta, Ogun State’s capital, when inspecting the INEC office that had been set on fire by hoodlums.
5. Owners of foreign-registered private aircraft, including prominent business moguls, leading commercial banks, and other wealthy Nigerians, have taken the Federal Government to court to prevent it from grounding their planes for allegedly failing to pay import duty on the jets.
6. On Monday, terrorists stormed the home of the Divisional Police Officer for Dutsi Division, Katsina State Police Command, killing his mother and younger brother. SP Gambo Isah, the State Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed the development.
7. Yesterday, hundreds of protesters demanding the resignation of Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Tajudeen Ariwoola, over an alleged partisan remark he made in Rivers State caused chaos in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja. Police used tear gas to disperse the crowd.
8. Nyesom Wike, the governor of Rivers State, has said that the choice of which presidential candidate the State will support in the general election of 2023 will be made soon. He stated that the electorate of Rivers, who had benefited from good governance under his watch and were already eager to repay the favor, would be informed of which presidential candidate to support when the decision was made.
9. The Osun All Progressives Congress, APC, has criticised Governor Ademola Adeleke’s creation of several review panels as being an afterthought and one that was created to produce predetermined results. In order to avoid the mistakes he is making, the party also urged the governor to sit down and carefully read the handover notes.
10. In Umuaram, Ikem, in the Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of Enugu State, a 23-year-old native doctor named Emmanuel Odo is accused of killing his client Benedict Onunze while testing a gunshot-protection charm he had made for him. The native doctor who killed his client, according to Daniel Ndukwe, a spokesman for the Enugu State Police Command, has admitted to the crime and been taken into custody.
