The Punch reported that the National Judicial Council has given the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Walter Onnoghen, and the acting CJN, Tanko Muhammad, seven working days to respond to petitions against them.
The council gave the ultimatum at its emergency meeting held in Abuja on Tuesday. The two men did not attend the meeting.
The Sun said the NJC went tough on the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen and the Acting CJN, Justice Ibrahim Mohammadu Tanko, slamming a seven-day ultimatum on them to respond to petitions against them.
The Nation reported that the Presidency said it had, through intelligence reports, uncovered the plot by some elements within the polity to cause widespread violence during and after the forthcoming general elections.
The National Security Adviser, Maj.-Gen. Babagana Mongouno (retd), sounded the alert at an emergency meeting with the Nigerian Governors Forum in Abuja.
The Vanguard reported that gunmen have abducted the Abia State Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Chief Donatus Nwankpa, at Isiala Ngwa along the Enugu–Port Harcourt Expressway.
ThisDay said indications have emerged that more foreign investors are eying acquisitions in the Nigerian insurance sector by investing in companies they perceive can fetch significant returns.
The Tribune reported that the Pan Yoruba group, Afenifere (Egbe Ilosiwaju Yoruba), on Tuesday asked all Yorubas to go all out to vote President Muhammadu Buhari and all candidates of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the forthcoming elections.
This mandate followed a voice vote by attendees at a Pan Yoruba summit held at the University of Ibadan, in favour of a motion for the re-election of Buhari moved by Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye and other Afenifere leaders across the six states of the South West.
The Daily Trust reported that the National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Mr. Adams Oshiomhole, has said that foreign interference in the internal affairs of the country will not be accepted because Nigeria is not anyone’s colony.