Happy morning! The summary from Nigerian Newspapers for today is as follows:
1. Following public outrage over a reportedly fatal vehicle accident in Calabar, more than 20 people have been hurt and several have died. Eyewitnesses reported that a car lost control and veered into an unwary throng during the Calabar Carnival, killing more than 10 people, including onlookers.
2. Akin Osuntokun, a former political adviser to President Olusegun Obasanjo, was named yesterday as the new director-general of the Labour Party’s Presidential Campaign Council. In Abuja on Tuesday, the party’s national chairman, Julius Abure, reaffirmed this.
3. On Tuesday, the Oyo State Police Command removed the three dismembered remains of young people who had been killed in the state capital of Ibadan by as-yet-unidentified assailants. It was discovered that the victims were slain in the early hours of Monday in the Akinyele Local Government Area of the State, close to the Office Bus Stop, which is located after the World Oil Petrol Station on the New Ibadan-Oyo Expressway.
4. According to the victim’s mother, Omobolanle Raheem was expecting twins when she was fatally shot by Drambi Vandi, a police officer assigned to the Ajiwe Police Station in Ajah, Lagos State. The grieving widow spoke on Tuesday when State Commissioner of Police Abiodun Alabi paid the family a sympathy visit.
5. In order to lessen the effects of the nation’s high inflation rate, the Federal Government will shortly boost the pay of civil and public employees, according to Minister of Labor and Employment Chris Ngige. Ngige said the Presidential Committee on Salaries is already conducting a review after meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
6. David Umahi, the governor of Ebonyi State, recently ordered the immediate suspension of Mr. Collins Eze, one of his special aides, due to suspected serious misbehaviour. His instructions were laid out in a statement by Dr. Ugbala Kenneth Igwe, Secretary to the State Government and Coordinating Commissioner.
7. Bola Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, has been urged by Mohammed Idris, an Islamic cleric headquartered in Abuja, to bring the nation together if elected. If elected in 2023, he advised Tinubu not to make the same error as President Muhammadu Buhari, noting that the nation is split along religious and ethnic lines.
8. The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and other accusations of crimes against the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) have both been refuted by the IPOB. Emma Powerful, the IPOB spokesperson, claimed in a statement released yesterday that the accusations were made to defame and threaten the organisation.
9. An attack on the Anguwan Pa Community in Kajuru Local Government Area of Kaduna State on Monday apparently resulted in the kidnapping of sixteen individuals. A local resident said that the bandits attacked the region at around 7.30 p.m. and encircled the settlement.
10. Christine (not her actual name), an eight-year-old child, was allegedly raped by five youths on Adepeju Street in the Bariga neighbourhood of Lagos State. Asuquo, the victim’s father, claimed that his wife’s sister found the rape and demanded justice.
