Here is today’s edition of our daily newspaper summary you can’t afford to miss.
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Beatrice Ekweremadu, the wife of former Deputy Senate President Senator Ike Ekweremadu, has returned to Nigeria after serving her jail sentence in the United Kingdom.
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President Bola Tinubu has emphasized his administration’s commitment to dismantling the financial networks supporting terrorism in Nigeria noting that more than 100 individuals involved in financing terrorist activities have been convicted in the last 2 years.
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The Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited has raised petrol prices at its retail outlets, increasing the cost from N965 to N990 per litre in the Federal Capital Territory (Abuja) and from N925 to N965 per litre in Lagos.
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Government hospitals in Abuja have halted services as members of the Association of Resident Doctors (ARD), Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), commence a three-day warning strike.
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Benue State Governor, Hyacinth Alia, took decisive action on Wednesday by locking out civil servants at the state secretariat during an impromptu visit.
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Students of the University of Ibadan (UI) have on Wednesday staged a peaceful protest against the 82-day power outage at the University College Hospital (UCH), Ibadan.
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Former President Olusegun Obasanjo is set to testify today before the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) in Paris, France, as part of arbitration proceedings involving Nigeria and Sunrise Power.
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Controversial Nigerian artiste, Speed Darlington has been released from Kuje Prison. He had recently been granted bail by an Abuja court.
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Abike Dabiri-Erewa, Chairman/CEO of the Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NIDCOM), has raised concerns over the plight of over 5,000 Nigerians, primarily women, who are stranded in Iraq, many of them sent there as caregivers.
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The Rivers State Command of the Nigeria Immigration Service has apprehended 90 undocumented immigrants accused of engaging in cyber fraud targeting unsuspecting Nigerians.
