Top news items of major Nigerian media outlets

The following are highlights of leading Nigerian media outlets on Wednesday.

-- Barely three weeks after the Police Service Commission opened the portal for applications for 10,000 vacancies approved by the Federal Government, the commission has received 705,352 applications.

President Muhammadu Buhari had, at last year's National Security Summit, approved the recruitment of 10,000 policemen into the nation's Police Force for better service. (Vanguard)

-- The Nigerian army on Tuesday said the convoy of the acting General Officer Commanding (GOC) 7 Division of the Nigerian Army Maiduguri, Brigadier General Victor Ezugwu, was attacked on their way to visit troops in Bama, Borno State.

A statement from army spokesman, Colonel Sani Usman, said "the leading elements" of the leading convoy was ambushed at about 8:30 a.m. by suspected Boko Haram terrorists en route Bama to visit troops. (Daily Trust)

-- The Federal Government on Tuesday lost its bid to conduct a secret trial of former National Security Adviser, Col. Sambo Dasuki, at the Federal High Court, Abuja.

The court also ordered that Tuesdays and Thursdays be set aside for Dasuki to have free access to his lawyers and family members for at least, two hours on each of the days. (The Guardian) Endit