Good morning! Right here is as we speak’s abstract from Nigerian Newspapers;(*10*)(*10*)1. The Bishop of the Catholic Kontagora Diocese, Bulus Dauwa Yohanna on Saturday mentioned that the full variety of victims kidnapped by suspected terrorists from the St. Mary’s Catholic Main and Secondary Faculties, Papiri in Agwarra native authorities space of Niger State is now 303 college students and 12 academics. He mentioned the replace was achieved after a ultimate verification train and census was carried out.
2. Zamfara State Police Command mentioned on Saturday that it foiled bandits assault and rescued 25 kidnapped victims Friday evening. In an announcement, the general public relations officer of the state police command, DSP Yazid Abubakar, mentioned the rescued victims included 10 ladies and 15 youngsters.
3. The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Adewale Martins, has known as for pressing and decisive measures to curb the alarming rise of insecurity throughout the nation. He mentioned the persistent terrorist assaults and the latest mass killings of harmless Nigerians spotlight the urgent need for the Federal Authorities and safety businesses to determine and decisively confront the perpetrators and their sponsors.
4. The Nationwide Secretary of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Ajibola Basiru, has formally withdrawn from the race for the occasion’s governorship ticket forward of the 2026 election in Osun State. Basiru’s announcement comes lower than three weeks earlier than the APC governorship main slated for December 13.
5. The 2023 Presidential candidate of the Labour Occasion, LP, Mr. Peter Obi, has described the arrest, detention and eventual conviction of the chief of the Indigenous folks of Biafra, IPOB, Nnamdi Kanu as unlucky. He mentioned the method represents a failure of management and was able to highlighting tensions quite than lowering it.
6. Professor Wole Soyinka has described President Donald Trump’s risk of navy motion in Nigeria over “Christian genocide” as insanity. Talking with journalists after assembly Governor Hyacinth Alia of Benue State in Makurdi, Soyinka vehemently kicked in opposition to US navy motion in Nigeria.
7. No fewer than 24.47 million people examined constructive for malaria in Nigeria within the first 9 months of 2025. That is in accordance to the 2025 Nationwide Well being Statistics Report launched by the Federal Ministry of Well being and Social Welfare and obtained by journalists weekend.
8. Males of the Edo State Police Command have arrested a social media content material creator, Osarobo Omoyemen, over false claims. In accordance to an announcement by the command’s PPRO, Moses Yamu, Omoyemen claimed that she was kidnapped at Higher Sakponba Highway in Benin and later rescued by police operatives who purportedly detained her at Akpata Police Station and picked up N10,000 as bail.
9. A number of individuals had been feared lifeless on Friday evening after a gasoline explosion rocked the Bioku-Alaadun space in Ibadan, Ona Ara Native Authorities Space of Oyo State. It was gathered that the explosion reportedly occurred whereas a tanker was discharging gasoline right into a retail outlet.
10. US President Donald Trump has continued his assault in opposition to Nigeria, describing probably the most populous black nation on earth as “a shame”. In his newest outburst, Trump, who redesignated Nigeria as a Nation of Explicit Concern two weeks in the past, described Nigerian authorities as ineffective.
