Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. Three journalists were shot on Tuesday at a rally organised for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu. The rally was held at Skypower field, Ikeja, Lagos. Among those that were hit by the bullets were the group political editor of Nation newspaper, Emmanuel Oladesu, News-Telegraph correspondent, Temitope Ogunbanke, Ibile Television cameraman, Abiodun Yusuf, among others. A number of persons were also injured, robbed and beaten at the rally. Trouble started when suspected rival groups of National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) began to shoot each other.
2. Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed says the purported leaked audio of Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, criticising President Muhammadu Buhari, will not break the ranks of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC. The Minister, who stated this at a media briefing on Tuesday in Abuja, said the leaked audio was part of the “mudslinging’’ politics of the opposition”.
3. There is tension in some parts of Lagos state, after Musiliu Akinsanya, an official of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), popularly known as MC Oluomo, was stabbed in the neck during a rally organized on Tuesday, for the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Babajide Sanwo-Olu.
4. The Lagos State Police Command has declared Mustapha Adekunle, aka Seigo, wanted for attempting to disrupt the APC rally held at Skypower Ground, Ikeja, on Tuesday. Seigo, an NURTW chieftain, was said to have attended the rally with his supporters. Police claim that at end of the event, Seigo and his group violently engaged other supporters of the party, which resulted in the stabbing of MC Oluomo and the shooting of some journalists.
5. The regional editor, Daily Trust Newspaper, Uthman Abubakar, who was arrested, alongside a reporter, when soldiers stormed the Maiduguri office of the newspaper has been released. The Editor-in-Chief of Daily Trust, Mannir Dan-Ali, announced the release. He was brought back to the Maiduguri office of the newspaper by an unnamed Major who handed him over to a security officer at the office.
6. President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the National Peace Committee to act on an alleged violation by the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), of the peace accord signed by presidential candidates in December 2018. A statement on Tuesday by his spokesperson, Garba Shehu, accused the PDP presidential campaign organisation of bad faith, character assassination and inflammatory utterances.
7. A former militant, Asari Dokubo, has declared that All Progressives Congress (APC) national leader, Bola Tinubu, and Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, will regret working for President Muhammadu Buhari. He opined that those in power do not like the duo and would go after them in due course. He said this in a video that emerged online Monday evening.
8. Some soldiers fighting at the Boko Haram front have lambasted President Muhammadu Buhari and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai. One of anonymous soldiers, in a video recording he captured, stated that scores of his colleagues were killed by the terrorists recently. In the footage which emerged online on Monday and believed to have been captured in a part of Borno State, had some soldiers at the background while the voice behind the camera walked around the area.
9. A police inspector, identified as Mohammed Usman, on Tuesday allegedly shot and injured two drivers in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital over issues bordering on gratification. It was gathered that the incident happened at the Ibro Motor Park, situated opposite the Lokoja International Market. The command has confirmed that the policemen involved have been detained for further investigation.
10. The Nigerian Labour Congress on Tuesday shut down most parts of the country in a peaceful protest it organized over the delayed implementation of the New Minimum Wage. Labour said the protest was to enlighten workers across the country to vote out political leaders standing against the implementation of the new wage.
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