Good Morning! Here are today’s top highlights from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. After days of controversy surrounding his certificates, the Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Geoffrey Uche Nnaji, has resigned. Nnaji has been a centre of negative news following allegations of forging his degree as well as NYSC discharge certificates. Both the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, UNN, and the National Youths Service Corps, NYSC, disowned the certificates he has been parading.
2. May Agbamuche has emerged as the acting National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC. This is following a handover ceremony at the commission's office on Tuesday. Professor Mahmood Yakubu handed over to Agbamuche who is the oldest serving National Commissioner in the electoral body.
3. Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Matthew Kukah and a team of eminent Nigerians have emphasised the need not to stifle the fundamental rights of Nigerian workers. Kukah and his team said this as he led a list of concerned Nigerians to mediate in the ongoing crisis between the Dangote Refinery and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN. They also stated that the recent industrial strike had sent out wrong signals to investors.
4. Another U.S. legislator, Riley Moore, has accused the Bola Tinubu administration of trying to sweep the alleged genocidal killing of Nigerian Christians under the carpet. The lawmaker, who insisted that 7,000 Christians have been killed in Nigeria this year, made his feelings known in a letter to the U.S. Secretary of State, Marco Rubio on Tuesday, urging the Trump administration to classify Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern.
5. Academic Staff Union of Universities, says there is no going back on its nationwide strike slated for next week. ASUU President, Chris Piwuna, affirmed the strike on Tuesday during the Orientation/Leadership Training on the theme ‘Understanding the Principles of the Union’, at the ASUU, Niger Delta University Branch in Amassoma, Bayelsa State.
6. Hours after he ended his tenure as the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof Mahmood Yakubu was bestowed with national honours. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu bestowed the honour of Commander of the Order of the Niger, CON, on him.
7. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sought approval of the House of Representatives for new external borrowing and debt refinancing totalling $2.3 billion, alongside the issuance of a $500 million debut sovereign Sukuk in the international capital market. This was contained in a letter read on the floor of the House by Speaker Tajudeen Abbas.
8. An Army officer, Lt. Samuel Haruna has been killed by his wife after she doused him with petrol and set him on fire over alleged infidelity. The incident reportedly happened at Wellington Bassey Barracks, Ibagwa, Abak local government area of Akwa Ibom, when the couple who got married in a highly celebrated wedding in Mangu local government area of Plateau in April, 2025, got into a heated argument.
9. There was outrage on Tuesday following a video showing bruises inflicted on a pupil by her teacher. The incident, which coincided with the World Teachers’ Day, is said to have happened at a private school in Abakpa Nike, in Enugu State. The traumatized mother of the child and other concerned Nigerians could be heard wailing in the video and demanding that the teacher be produced.
10. The Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has countered Vice President Kashim Shettima for describing the Dangote Group as a national asset. A statement by the NLC president, Joe Ajaero on Tuesday said no company, regardless of size or influence, is above the country’s labour laws. Ajaero described Shettima’s remarks as a national tragedy.
