Good morning! Right here is right this moment’s abstract from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. 13 passengers kidnapped at Eke in Okpokwu Native Authorities Space of Benue State have been rescued via a joint operation by the police and native vigilantes. The victims have been touring in a Benue Hyperlinks bus from Abeokuta to Makurdi after they have been kidnapped.
2. Saudi Arabian authorities have authorized the burial of businessman and philanthropist, Alhaji Aminu Dantata, within the Islamic holy metropolis of Madina. The announcement was made on Sunday by Dantata’s Principal Personal Secretary, Mustapha Junaid, in an announcement posted on Fb.
3. The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company says it has arrested an ex-international soccer participant, Segun George Hunkarin, alongside together with his businessman accomplice, Ntoruka Emmanuel Chinedu, over try to smuggle a consignment of cocaine into Nigeria via the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, Ikeja, Lagos. Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters Abuja, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in an announcement on Sunday.
4. Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State has blamed the nation’s persistent safety challenges on the highly effective and influential members of the society. He spoke in Jos throughout a stakeholder assembly themed “Dialogue on Neighborhood Policing as a Panacea for Insecurity in Nigeria: The Case of Plateau State’.
5. The suspended governor of Rivers, Siminalayi Fubara, says there is no such thing as a sacrifice too huge for the peace, stability, and progress of the state. Fubara, who mentioned this whereas addressing his supporters on the weekend, reassured them that each step he has taken, together with the latest reconciliation together with his predecessor, Nyesom Wike, was executed with their collective curiosity in thoughts.
6. Controversy surrounding the standing of right this moment’s Nationwide Govt Committee, NEC, assembly, has torn the Peoples Democratic Social gathering, PDP, aside as two factions throughout the celebration have resolved to proceed with two parallel NEC conferences. The choice comes amid rising tensions over celebration management and procedural disagreements with INEC.
7. Defence Headquarters, on Sunday, mentioned troops of Operation Fasin Yamma have killed a needed and infamous terrorist kingpin in Zamfara State, Mai Wada, who had been terrorizing a number of communities within the North West. That is as troops of Sector 3 in Monguno, Borno State, intercepted a car conveying gadgets suspected to be logistics provides for terrorists, together with petrol, rice, groundnuts and yams.
8. A Lagos-based socialite, Gail Fajembola, has filed a basic rights enforcement swimsuit earlier than the Federal Excessive Court docket in Lagos, searching for judicial intervention over what she described as steady threats, harassment, and intimidation allegedly orchestrated by the Nigeria Police Pressure on behalf of personal people.
9. The Dangote Petroleum Refinery says it should take up over N1.07tn yearly in its plan to distribute gasoline on to entrepreneurs nationwide. The refinery mentioned it invested over N720bn to implement the initiative of deploying 4,000 Compressed Pure Fuel-powered vans for the nationwide distribution of petroleum merchandise, saying this was anticipated to save lots of Nigerians over N1.7tn yearly.
10. Ondo State Police Command mentioned it had arrested and prosecuted no fewer than 30 confirmed kidnap suspects whereas a whole lot of armed theft and different prison suspects have been nabbed within the first half of 2025. In line with an announcement by the Public Relations Officer of the command, Mr Olayinka Ayanlade, on Sunday, the interval underneath evaluation was underneath the management of the outgoing Commissioner of Police, Mr Wilfred Afolabi.