Here is today’s edition of our daily newspaper summary you can’t afford to miss.
- A fresh wave of anxiety has swept through Niger State after the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN) confirmed that more than two hundred students and staff were seized during a violent raid on two Catholic schools, triggering urgent calls for government action and community calm.
- Nigeria’s education sector has been jolted by a sweeping federal directive ordering the shutdown of 47 Unity Colleges, a drastic move aimed at shielding students and staff from the country’s escalating security crisis.
- The Katsina State Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education has ordered the immediate closure of all public schools across the state.
- The legal team of Nnamdi Kanu has raised concerns after the separatist leader was transferred to a correctional facility in Sokoto, a development that has intensified debates around the conditions of his detention and his access to legal representation.
- Senate President Godswill Akpabio has expressed deep sorrow over the passing of Barrister Segun Awolowo Jnr, describing the death of the grandson of the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo as a painful blow to the Yoruba nation and the country at large.
- Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has urged the Federal Government to immediately declare a state of emergency on Nigeria’s worsening security crisis, stressing that the latest school abductions in Niger State once again underline the country’s dangerous slide.
- The Federal Government has outlawed the award of honorary doctorate degrees to serving public officials as part of new measures to curb widespread abuse of the academic honour.
- The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted a vessel loaded with 20 kilogrammes of cocaine at the Apapa seaport in Lagos.
- Nigerian female music stars, Yemi Alade and Tiwa Savage have finally reconciled after seven years of feud.
- Nigeria’s worsening insecurity has once again taken centre stage after new figures showed that at least 184 students have been killed across the Northwest in eight years, underscoring the heavy toll of repeated school attacks and mass abductions in the region.