Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, on Friday urged President Bola Tinubu to release the forensic audit of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) between 2015 and 2022 to the public for Nigerians to know who collected N48 billion annually from the commission. He alleged that the wife of his predecessor, Rotimi Amaechi, embezzled public funds.
2. Commercial banks have lifted over three years moratorium on the use of naira-funded debit cards abroad as dollar liquidity rises. A Tier-1 bank and mid-tier bank, United Bank for Africa (UBA) Plc and Wema Bank Plc respectively, have announced the resumption of international transactions on their naira debit cards.
3. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday said his administration is not just building roads but rebuilding the foundation of public trust in inclusive governance, alongside physical infrastructure across the country. Tinubu reaffirmed that the projects his administration is executing are evidence of what he described as a quiet revolution transforming the FCT under the administration’s Renewed Hope Agenda.
4. Striking primary school teachers in the Federal Capital Territory have vowed not to return to the classrooms until they get paid. Chairman of the FCT wing of the NUT, Comrade Abdullahi Mohammed Shafas, who addressed newsmen at the end of the union’s State Wing Executive Council, said there was a unanimous resolution that teachers would resume classes any moment the backlogs of arrears and other entitlements were paid.
5. A federal high court in Abuja has ordered the Senate to recall the senator representing Kogi Central, Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan. In March, Natasha was suspended by the Senate for six months for alleged gross misconduct, days after a face-off with Senate President Godswill Akpabio over a change of sitting arrangement in the chambers during plenary.
6. A United States District Court has sentenced a Nigerian pastor, Edward Oluwasanmi, to 27 months’ imprisonment for COVID-19 relief fund fraud. His friend, the Apetu of Ipetumodu, Oba Joseph Oloyede, also forfeited his property to the US government while awaiting the court judgement slated for August 1.
7. Lagos State University has dismissed two lecturers for gross misconduct, involving sexual harassment and fraud. It was gathered that the dismissal was approved at the LASU Governing Council’s 143rd Statutory Meeting held on Thursday, July 3, 2025.
8. A total of 16 individuals have been arrested in separate operations across the Federal Capital Territory by the Tactical Squad of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps for offences ranging from vandalism and theft to illegal mining. The arrests were carried out by the FCT Command’s Critical National Assets and Infrastructure unit, which has been conducting 24-hour surveillance to safeguard public infrastructure.
9. Some women from Agan community, a few kilometres from Makurdi, the capital city of Benue State, on Friday turned out in numbers to protest against what they termed the indiscriminate arrest of their children in the area. The protesters said they were aggrieved by the manner in which security operatives in the state were arresting their children indiscriminately.
10. Former Jigawa State Governor and Chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), on Friday expressed willingness to support Mr. Peter Obi in the 2027 Presidential election should he emerge as the standard bearer of the coalition. According to him, Nigeria should have outgrown tribal and regional sentiments.
