1. President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to conduct a thorough investigation into the activities of the fictitious Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council and all related matters, demanding a comprehensive report within 30 days.
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, revealed the fresh directive in a statement he signed Tuesday titled ‘President Tinubu orders ICPC to investigate Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council.’
Onanuga said “the directive follows the discovery of the fictitious council, which the Presidency said was never established by the Federal Government and has no basis in the law, presidential instrument, executive approval or other lawful act of government.”
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.
5. 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
6. The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, on Tuesday handed over 1,452 items recovered from the proceeds of crime to the Federal Ministry of Education to support schools across the country. The recovered items, comprising 501 double-step bunk beds, 939 mattresses and 12 wooden beds with mattresses, were formally presented to the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, at a ceremony in Abuja.
7. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to arraign the former Managing Director of Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd, Jimoh Yisawu, on Friday, and the former Managing Director of Port Harcourt Refining Company Ltd, Ahmed Dikko, on Wednesday, over separate money laundering charges bordering on hundreds of millions of naira and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
8. A Catholic cardinal touted as one of the favourites to replace Pope Francis said he was “stepping back” from office Tuesday after an AFP investigation revealed at least five women had accused him of sexual assault. Spanish-born Cristobal Lopez Romero, 74, the Archbishop of Rabat in Morocco, denies wrongdoing. One woman who said he molested her made a written complaint about the cardinal in May to the Vatican embassy in Morocco, which AFP has seen
9. The Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission on Tuesday alleged that former Kaduna State Governor, Nasir El-Rufai, violated the conditions of a court-approved medical visit while in the commission’s custody. The commission also announced the arrest of his personal physician, Prof Bello Abubakar, for allegedly making false statements.
10. A middle-aged woman in the Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State, identified as Mbayegh, was reported to have set two children of her lover ablaze over a little disagreement. The incident, according to a local source, occurred in the early hours of Monday, July 6, 2026, in the Kaffe area of Zaki-Biam, in the Ukum Local Government Area of the state when the suspect visited her lover and suspected he was hiding another woman.
