Good morning! Here are six top headlines from Nigerian Newspapers today;
1. Päijät-Häme District Court on Monday slammed a six-year prison term on Simon Ekpa, the self-acclaimed Biafra agitator. Ekpa, who is based in Finland, was found guilty of terrorism-related charges.
2. The Office of the National Security Adviser, ONSA described as “baseless” the claim by former Kaduna Governor Nasir El-Rufai that the current administration engaged in ransom payments or inducements to criminals. The ONSA, in a statement on Monday by its Director of Legal Services, Zakari Mijinyawa, said El-Rufai’s allegations “are not only false but also contradict verifiable facts on ground.”
3. Transportation Minister Said Ahmed Alkali has assured Nigerians that the damaged portions of the Abuja-Kaduna tracks will be restored in the next 10 days. Some portions of the rail tracks and coaches were damaged last Tuesday when a Kaduna-bound train derailed at Asham Station.
4. Youths believed to be political thugs have attacked convoy of the former minister of justice and attorney general, Abubakar Malami. The convoy was attacked few meters away from the former Minister’s residence in Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi State.
5. Special Adviser to the President on Media and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, has described those calling for the removal of President Bola Tinubu from office as “power-hungry politicians” who feel politically displaced. He spoke against the backdrop of comments of former Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir el-ERufai, that the President would not be re-elected in 2027.
6. Police in Akwa Ibom State have arrested seven suspected student cultists with a human skill and a firearm. A statement by the state command’s Police Public Relations Officer, Timfon John, yesterday, said that the suspected members of the Ku Klux Klans, KKK, confraternity were, on August 28, 2025, caught, following a tip-off by a renounced member and student of the Akwa Ibom State Polytechnic, Ikot Osurua
