Good morning, Nigeria! You’re welcome to the Lagos Post Online News Roundup of today’s top newspaper headlines for Friday, October 10th, 2025.
Kayode Ojo, an aspirant for the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship primary in Ekiti State, has been disqualified by the party. The primary is scheduled for October 27, 2025.
The party’s Deputy National Publicity Secretary, Duro Meseko, confirmed the development while briefing journalists in Abuja on Thursday.
Meseko said that the screening committee cleared the state Governor, Abiodun Oyebanji and Omolayo Oluremi to battle for the APC ticket.
President Bola Tinubu has granted presidential pardons to 17 individuals, including Nigerian nationalist Herbert Macaulay, the late Major-General Mamman Vatsa, and former lawmaker Farouk Lawan. This decision follows the endorsement of the National Council of State.
The decision was announced in Abuja on Thursday by the President’s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, who said the move was aimed at decongesting prisons and advancing restorative justice.
Macaulay, widely regarded as the father of Nigerian nationalism, was posthumously pardoned decades after his 1913 conviction by colonial authorities, which barred him from public office. He died in 1946, but the stain of the sentence had remained on record.
The national chairman of the Action Alliance (AA), Kenneth Udeze, has refuted claims of a contempt judgment issued by a Federal High Court in Osogbo, Osun State, against Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, the immediate past Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
In a statement issued on Thursday, Udeze insisted that the party never sued Yakubu and never authorised anyone to do so.
He said, “On the issue of the purported court order against the former INEC Chairman, Prof. Mahmoud Yakubu, I want Nigerians to disregard such false rumours, as there’s no such judgement.”
President Bola Tinubu has approved the conferment of 959 national honors. He also endorsed significant reforms aimed at bolstering the financial framework of the Nigeria Police Force.
The President made the approvals while presiding over marathon meetings of the National Council of State and the Nigeria Police Council at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Briefing State House correspondents after the sessions, the Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Affairs Office, Emanso Umobong, said Tinubu endorsed the report of the National Honours Award Committee covering 2024 and 2025, alongside special awards already bestowed since January 2025.
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has accused the All Progressives Congress (APC) of economic regression in Nigeria. The PDP claims that upon their departure from power in 2015, Nigeria held the position of Africa’s largest economy and premier investment destination.
The party’s National Publicity Secretary, Debo Ologunagba, made the assertion on Wednesday during an interactive session with journalists in Abuja.
Ologunagba said that under the PDP’s leadership, Nigeria witnessed significant growth in both economic and social sectors, achievements which he claimed have been eroded in the last decade.
The Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority (NEPZA) has cautioned the Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN) against actions that contravene Free Trade Zone (FTZ) regulations, reaffirming that strikes and lockouts are expressly prohibited within such zones for a period of ten years from the commencement of operations.
The Authority’s Managing Director, Dr. Olufemi Ogunyemi, stated this in Abuja following reports of escalating industrial tensions and “frequent and excessive external union infiltrations” that have disrupted operations at the Dangote Refinery, the country’s largest private industrial complex.
In a statement signed by Dr. Martins Odeh, Head of Corporate Communications at NEPZA, the agency described the recent shutdown of critical oil and gas facilities by PENGASSAN as unlawful within the context of the Free Trade Zone framework.
The House of Representatives advanced a bill for a second reading that aims to create Ibadan State out of the current Oyo State, marking a significant move towards redrawing Nigeria’s political boundaries.
The proposed legislation, sponsored by Abass Adigun, who represents Ibadan North-East/Ibadan South-East Federal Constituency, scaled through after a heated debate at plenary.
Adigun argued that Ibadan, with its population size and vast landmass, had long deserved recognition as a state.
The National Council of State has approved the appointment of Professor Joash Ojo Amupitan (SAN) from Kogi State as the next Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).
This was made known in a statement on Thursday by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu presented Amupitan’s name to the Council during its meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, to fill the vacancy created by the exit of Professor Mahmood Yakubu, who completed his 10-year tenure in October 2025.
The pro-Biafra activist and leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, has received support for his immediate release from former Vice President Atiku Abubakar.
Kanu had been in the custody of the Department of State Security (DSS) since his extraordinary rendition from Kenya in 2021 under the Muhammadu Buhari administration.
Recently, the 2023 presidential candidate of the African Action Congress (AAC), Omoyele Sowore, challenged the former Labour Party (LP) presidential candidate, Peter Obi, Anambra State Governor, Charles Soludo, Abia State Governor, Alex Otti, Atiku and other South East leaders to join the march to Aso Rock, demanding the release of Kanu.
The FCT Police Command has confirmed the arrest of 12 suspected armed robbers. These individuals are believed to be connected to an attack at Unique Apartment, Gishiri village, Katampe District, Abuja. The incident resulted in the deaths of Arise TV News staff member, Somtochukwu Christella Maduagwu, and security guard, Barnabas Danlami.
Operatives of the Scorpion Squad of the police led by an Assistant Commissioner of Police, ASP Victor Godfrey, carried out the arrests.
This followed actionable digital and reconstructive intelligence provided by Giga Forensics, a subsidiary of EIB Stratoc.
The highly respected Nigerian diplomat, broadcaster, academic, and corporate leader, Dr. Christopher Kolade, has passed away.
Kolade, who would have been 93, was reported dead by sources close to him on Thursday, though there were no details as of press time.
Businessday confirmed the development in the early hours of the day.
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