Nigerian Newspaper Headlines Today: 22nd March

Vanguard

Re-run polls: IGP deploys 5 DIGs, 3 AIGs, 15 CPs

Acting Inspector General of Police, IGP, Mr Mohammed, Adamu has directed the Zonal Assistant Inspectors General of Police and their respective Commissioners of Police in states where supplementary elections are taking place to ensure that adequate mechanisms are in place towards ensuring a safe and secure environment for the conduct of the elections.

Thisday

As FG Closes Case, Onnoghen to Make No-case Submission

The trial of the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Walter Onnoghen, appears to be reaching an anti-climax with key prosecution witnesses’ testimony contradicting claims that the embattled number one judicial officer might have corruptly amassed wealth way out of his income.

The Sun

Families, businesses count cost as more buildings collapse in Lagos, Ibadan

The wave of building collapse has cost Nigeria so much in assets and human capital. Although, it may not be difficult to quantify properties, human lives cannot be quantified and each time a building collapses, lives and properties go with it. This has had far-reaching effect on the psyche of those affected because since live has no duplicate, once it is lost, it is lost forever.

Daily Times

Onnoghen: CCT chairman threatens journalists with 28-year jail term

In a brazen show of arrogance, abuse of power and disrespect for the rights of others to practice their professions, the Chairman of the Code of Conduct of Tribunal, Justice Danladi Umar, on Thursday, threatened to imprison any journalist who misrepresents the ongoing proceedings on the suspended Chief Justice of Nigeria, Justice Walter Onnoghen

Leadership

196 Students Lose Properties In Jigawa Hostels’ Inferno

About 196 students have lost their properties to fire outbreak at two different secondary schools within the week in Jigawa State

Daily Trust

Ayade to include defeated opposition candidates in cabinet

Governor Ben Ayade of Cross River State has said he will include the two defeated APC gubernatorial candidates, Usani Usani and Senator John Owan-Enoh as well as that of SDP, Barrister Eyo Ekpo, in his cabinet.

The Nation

TraderMoni loans not for election, says Presidency

CRITICS of TraderMoni  – a social investment programme  of  the Federal Government – got a reply yesterday to their claim that the scheme was introduced to buy votes during the general elections.

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