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The Punch reports that the federal government says at least 23 oil blocks have failed to produce crude or have become inactive. The newspaper says at least 22 passengers drowned in a boat accident in Niger state on Monday.

The Nation says the federal government has called on governors of the 19 states with confirmed cases of diphtheria to reintroduce face mask-wearing at public gatherings. The newspaper reports that the police have detained Afeez Fashola, the Afrobeats artiste known as Naira Marley, amid an investigation into the death of Mohbad.

The Guardian reports that two persons — including a pregnant woman — have been killed after a tricycle was rammed into by a car in Lagos. The newspaper says the senate has barred first-term lawmakers from seeking election as president or deputy president of the red chamber.

Daily Sun reports that a pastor has been killed after a Dunamis Church located at Mission Ward in the North Bank area of Makurdi, the Benue state capital, collapsed on Tuesday. The newspaper says the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) has revealed that only 40 million Nigerians pay taxes.

Daily Independent says the Ondo assembly has given a fresh directive to Olusegun Odusola, the state’s chief judge, to set up a seven-man panel to investigate the allegation of gross misconduct against Lucky Aiyedatiwa, the state’s deputy governor. The newspaper says Kevin McCarthy has been voted out as speaker of the US house of representatives, becoming the first in the nation’s history to be so removed.