Good Morning! Here are today’s top highlights from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja has been asked to stop former President Goodluck Jonathan from contesting the 2027 presidential election. In a suit filed suit, marked: FHC/ABJ/CS/2102/ 2025, filed by Mr. Johnmary Chukwukasi Jideobiby, the court was specifically asked to issue an order of perpetual injunction, restraining Jonathan from presenting himself to any political party in the country for the purpose of contesting the 2027 presidential election.
2. Tragedy struck on Monday as a retired Nigerian Air Vice Marshal from Anambra State died mid air. He passed on while on board a British Airways (BA) flight from London to Abuja.
3. Amid pressure on President Bola Tinubu to sack the Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Uche Nnaji from his cabinet, a former presidential candidate of Labour Party, LP, Mr Peter Obi has urged tougher sanctions against certificate forgers. Nnajii has been at the centre of a certificate scandal, involving University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, degree certificate.
4. The presidency has blamed a key member of the opposition coalition in Nigeria over the disturbing claims of genocidal killing of Christians in Nigeria. Special Adviser to President Bola Tinubu on Policy and Communication, Daniel Bwala accused the certain 'unnamed opposition leader' of being behind the 'Christian genocide' allegation.
5. Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Benjamin Kalu has declared that Governor Alex Otti of Abia State is worse than his predecessors, vowing that the governor will lose re-election in 2027. He said despite huge budgetary allocations, Otti had little to show in Abia.
6. A strange fire engulfed the Rivers State Government Secretariat on Monday. The inferno affected the section which houses the Rivers State Pension Board. It came barely 24 hours after the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Nyesom Wike met with Governor Siminalayi Fubara and other key actors in the Rivers crisis.
7. Vice-President, Kashim Shettima has cautioned the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, against sabotaging Nigeria’s economy. He reminded the Association that the country was greater than them.
8. A former governor of Edo State, Senator Adams Oshiomhole has advised ex-Vice President, Atiku Abubakar and Mr Peter Obi of the Labour Party to drop their 2027 presidential ambition. According to Oshiomhole, the duo have no chance in the 2027 presidential election.
9. An 18-year-old boy, identified as Tersoo Veregh has been discovered hanging from the ceiling of his father’s residence on Lorkyaako Street, High Level area of Benue State. Confirming the suspected suicide, the Benue State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Udeme Edet, said an investigation had already commenced.
10. The Lagos State Government has justified the controversial demolition of a section of the Trade Fair Complex in the state. It insisted that the exercise was backed by law of the state. Commissioner for the Ministry of Environment and Water Resources, Lagos State, Tokunbo Wahab said similar things happened in the South East when Governor Alex Otti of Abia State and Governor Charles Soludo of Anambra State "removed contraventions".
