Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers;
1. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Monday met with the newly appointed Service Chiefs at the State House, Abuja. The closed-door meeting, which came three days after the announcement of the new appointments, marked the President’s first formal engagement with the new military leadership.
2. The detained self acclaimed leader of the proscribed separatist group, the Indigenous People of Biafra has abandoned his earlier plan to call witnesses in his defence in his ongoing trial for alleged terrorism offences. Kanu told a Federal High Court in Abuja on Monday that he has realised that there was no valid charge against him and that evidence led so far has not established any case against him to require that he enter a defence.
3. With the tripple-fold increase in monthly allocations to all tiers of government, the National Chairman of the ruling All Progressives Congress, Prof. Nentawe Yilwatda, has asked Nigerians to hold their state governors and Local Government Area Chairmen accountable. He stated that no Governor and the LGA chairmen get less than triple or four times of what they used to get as monthly allocations before President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s administration.
4. Former Minister of Special Duties and PDP National Chairmanship Aspirant, Kabiru Tanimu Turaki, SAN, has submitted his Expression of Interest and Nomination Forms to contest for the position of National Chairman of the party. The party has slated November 15, 16, 2025 for its Elective National Convention for Ibadan, Oyo State.
5. Ekiti State Governor, Abiodun Oyebanji, has secured the All Progressives Congress ticket to seek a second term in office, following intense political manoeuvring, negotiations, and internal horse-trading within the ruling party. Oyebanji emerged as the APC candidate through a consensus arrangement at the party’s primary held on Monday in Ado-Ekiti.
6. The new chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Joash Amupitan, SAN, has vowed to dismantle the culture of excessive pre-election litigations that has long plagued Nigeria’s democracy. Speaking at the 56th Annual National Conference of the Nigerian Association of Law Teachers, NALT, at the University of Abuja, Amupitan said one of his top priorities was to “end the courtroom warfare” that often began long before ballots were cast.
7. The Office of the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice has said the defamation charges it filed against Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan were in order because her conduct and actions against Senate President Godswill Akpabio and former Kogi State governor Yahaya Bello contravened the penal code. The AGF stated this in response to Akpoti-Uduaghan’s preliminary objection to three counts bordering on harmful imputation and defamation filed against her.
8. An Ekiti State High Court, Ado Ekiti Division, has sentenced three persons to death by hanging for armed robbery. The convicts – Shadrack Apos (30), Lucky Akpos (33), and Adunola Precious (24) were tried and sentenced for robbing an 87-year-old woman of N186,000 and a wristwatch. They were arraigned and tried on a two-count charge bordering on conspiracy and armed robbery.
9. Gunmen in Ibadan, the Oyo State capital, on Monday, waylaid a bank depositor of an unspecified amount of money as well as inflicted injuries on a police officer at the Osuntokun area, in the Ibadan North Local Government Area of the state. Eyewitnesses said on Monday that the victim was trailed from one of the banks where he had gone to make a withdrawal by the suspected gunmen.
10. Cameroon’s Constitutional Council on Monday declared 92-year-old Paul Biya the winner of the country’s highly contested presidential election, extending his decades-long rule. Biya, who has been in power since 1982, secured a fresh seven-year mandate after polling 53.66 percent of the votes.
