Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to conduct a thorough investigation into the activities of a “Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council” PFIPC and all related matters. Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga on Tuesday, said the President directed that the investigation be concluded and a comprehensive report submitted to him within 30 days.
2. Hajiya Asiya El-Rufai, wife of former Kaduna State Governor, has told President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that her husband does not deserve the treatment he is currently receiving. Hajia Asiya, who was flanked by El-Rufai’s other wife, Aichatou, was reacting to the arrest of her husband’s personnel physician, Prof Bello Abubakar, as confirmed by the ICPC on Tuesday.
3. The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill has swung into action. It was inaugurated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who said the operation of State Police can no more be delayed. He said the body would prepare the legal framework for its implementation across the country.
4. The Senate has urged the Federal Government to halt the policy of rehabilitating and reintegrating former Boko Haram members into society, and ensure that perpetrators of terrorism and banditry are, instead, arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law. The resolutions followed a motion of urgent national importance on escalating attacks, abductions and killings of serving and retired military personnel, sponsored by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua, during plenary, on Tuesday.
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