Here is today’s edition of our daily newspaper summary you can’t afford to miss.
- President Bola Tinubu on Thursday decorated the newly confirmed service chiefs with their official ranks at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
- The Kogi Central Senator, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, has extended an invitation to Senate President Godswill Akpabio to attend a project commissioning in her constituency.
- A tragic incident occurred on Thursday after a three-storey building undergoing partial demolition collapsed in the Apapa area of Lagos, leaving one person dead and several others injured.
- The Senate on Thursday confirmed Dr. Bernard Doro as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
- A midnight fire on Thursday gutted a section of the popular Jabi Lake Mall in Abuja, destroying goods worth millions of naira.
- Fresh revelations have emerged about the 16 Nigerian military officers currently in custody over an alleged plot to overthrow President Bola Tinubu’s administration.
- The pan-Yoruba socio-political organisation, Afenifere, has urged political leaders across the country, particularly those from the Southwest, to place governance above party allegiance.
- Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has condemned the growing trend of contract staffing in Nigeria, describing it as “state-backed slavery.”
- Nigeria’s Reality TV star and social media influencer, Natacha Akide, well known as Tacha, has revealed that venturing into politics could be a path she might consider.
- The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated President Bola Tinubu over what it described as a growing culture of impunity and inconsistency in his administration’s decision-making, accusing him of favouring individuals with questionable reputations at the expense of honest Nigerians.