Good morning, Nigeria! You’re welcome to the Lagos Post Online News Roundup of today’s top newspaper headlines for Tuesday, November 4th, 2025.
Senator Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan (PDP-Kogi Central) has alleged that Senate President Godswill Akpabio instructed Nigerian immigration officers to confiscate her international passport at the airport.
The lawmaker claimed that the action prevented her from travelling abroad.
In a viral video on Tuesday morning, the lawmaker was captured questioning immigration officials at the airport over the alleged confiscation of her passport.
The Naira has reached a 10-month high, trading at ₦1,444.42 to the United States Dollar ($) in the official market.
The development comes following Nigeria’s removal from the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) grey list, a decision analysts say has triggered renewed investor confidence and stronger market inflows.
Data from the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market (NFEM) released by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) showed the local currency closed October at ₦1,422/$, while the parallel market rate appreciated to ₦1,465/$ as dollar holders rushed to offload their positions.
Investigative journalist Jaafar Jaafar suggests that U.S. President Donald Trump‘s recent military threat against Nigeria could be “karmic payback” for President Bola Tinubu’s Muslim-Muslim ticket during the 2023 general election.
Jaafar suggested that Trump’s rhetoric on alleged Christian persecution in Nigeria was a reaction to the religious politics that defined Tinubu’s presidential victory.
Reacting to Trump’s latest comments, Jaafar said the U.S. president’s remarks targeting Nigeria under Tinubu’s administration were ironic and reflected how religious manipulation in politics could return to haunt those who benefited from it.
The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) has issued a strong warning to tertiary institutions accused of enticing or pressuring qualified candidates, especially those with high rankings on CAPS, to change from their preferred courses to less popular ones via internal school portals.
Describing the practice as unethical and manipulative, the Board condemned it as a deliberate attempt to distort the merit-based admission process designed to ensure transparency, accountability, and fairness.
According to JAMB, some institutions have been exploiting their internal systems to pressure top-ranking candidates into relinquishing their rightful admission slots, thereby creating space for preferred applicants to move up the admission list.
Human rights activist and former presidential candidate, Omoyele Sowore, has criticized CP Olohundare Jimoh, the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, regarding his alleged declaration as a wanted individual.
Sowore, who reacted on his social media handle on Monday, further disclosed that the Police boss has refused to take his calls despite repeated attempts to reach him.
He described the development as an attempt to silence him and distort the facts surrounding events in the Oworonsoki area of Lagos, where Police officers had earlier disrupted a planned gathering.
The Labour Party’s presidential candidate in the 2023 elections, Peter Obi, has responded to U.S. President Donald Trump’s declaration of Nigeria as a Country of Particular Concern (CPC).
The reaction of the former two-term governor of Anambra State was contained in a statement he made available on his X handle on Monday.
Obi said in the statement: “The recent pronouncement by the US government declaring Nigeria a ‘Country of Particular Concern’ (CPC) and indicating possible military action should give every well-meaning Nigerian serious concern.
In response to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat of military intervention in Nigeria concerning the alleged persecution of Christians, the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu, convened a high-level security meeting on Monday with service chiefs and heads of intelligence agencies.
The meeting, which took place at the National Counter Terrorism Centre (NCTC) in Abuja, followed Trump’s latest comments suggesting that ground operations and air strikes could form part of a potential U.S. offensive in the country.
According to reliable sources who spoke with Vanguard, the meeting began in the afternoon and lasted several hours, with key discussions centred on the security, diplomatic, and strategic implications of Trump’s remarks.
A diplomatic crisis is brewing as the United States Congress deliberates a bill that could lead to extensive sanctions against twelve northern governors, several prominent traditional rulers, and senior judges in Nigeria. The proposed sanctions stem from their alleged involvement in what American lawmakers have termed a “Christian genocide” and systematic persecution under Nigeria’s sharia and blasphemy laws.
This follows the designation of Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” (CPC) by President Donald Trump and his instruction to the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, to act without delay.
In a post on Truth on Friday, Trump claimed that thousands of Christians were being killed in Nigeria and asked Congressman Riley Moore, together with Chairman Tom Cole and the House Appropriations Committee, to immediately look into the matter and report back to him.
Yenagoa, the capital of Bayelsa State, is reportedly brimming with excitement as the All Progressives Congress (APC) officially welcomes Governor Douye Diri and his supporters into the party.
Diri, who resigned from the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) on October 15, has been engaged in weeks of discreet negotiations with key APC figures to finalise his defection plan.
Thousands of supporters of the APC and Diri, who were dressed in white t-shirts and colourful attire from all eight local government areas, started trooping into the state capital as early as 8 am, defying the early morning downpour.
The African Democratic Congress (ADC) has sharply criticized President Bola Tinubu’s administration, declaring it a failure for consistently falling short in addressing the needs of its citizens.
In a statement released on Monday by its National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, the party asserted that numerous lives have been lost due to insecurity in Nigeria during the Tinubu administration.
It added that, without bias to ethnic and religious backgrounds, the killings by terrorists and other criminals are surging under the current administration, and the government has remained lethargic in its response.
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