Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The President-elect of the Nigerian Bar Association, Oyinkansola Badejo-Okusanya, has said her successful campaign for the association’s top office was built on competence rather than gender. Speaking during an interview on Sunday on Arise Television, Badejo-Okusanya dismissed suggestions that gender played a defining role in the election, saying she deliberately presented herself to members as “a capable lawyer” rather than seeking support based on being a woman.
2. Sixteen governors of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, seeking a second-term mandate will be given priority as the party commences the digital upload of all its governorship and State Houses of Assembly candidates on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC Candidate Nomination Portal, ICNP. The move is part of the party’s race against time to meet statutory deadlines ahead of the 2027 general elections.
3. Police Command in Anambra State says it has arrested four suspected kidnappers, involved in separate kidnapping and robbery incidents across the state. The Police Public Relations Officer, PPRO in the state, SP Tochukwu Ikenga, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Awka.
4. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted 1.63 million pills of tramadol concealed in two long trailers heading for Kano as it intensified efforts to dismantle a transnational drug trafficking syndicate operating along the Togo-Benin Republic-Nigeria corridor. The agency also arrested an 80-year-old suspected drug dealer in Rivers State, a businesswoman linked to cannabis shipments from Canada, a Chadian woman, a couple and other suspects in coordinated
