Good morning NIGERIANS, welcome to EGALITARIAN VOICE News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Thursday, 3rd April, 2025.
1. Brigadier-General Maharazu Tsiga (rtd) has regained his freedom after spending 56 days in captivity. The former Director-General of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) was abducted from his hometown in Bakori local government area (LGA) of Katsina state, on February 5, 2025.
2. Governor Caleb Mutfwang of Plateau State, on Wednesday said Nigeria made a great mistake to have allowed Boko Haram terrorists and other non-state actors in some parts of the country. Mutfwang said it was high time for all the leaders and critical stakeholders to ensure that no one operates within Nigeria’s borders with capabilities that compete, not to talk of exceed, the ones of security agencies.
3. One person was reportedly killed while three others got injured when members of rival groups, popularly known as Sara-Suka, clashed around the Yantifa community of Jos North Local Government Area of Plateau State. Residents said the members of the rival groups were seen carrying machetes attacking one another, a development that forced people to run for their lives.
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4. Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State on Wednesday, received former Labour Party (LP), Gubernatorial candidate for 2023 Governorship election, Mr Chijioke Edeoga, back into the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). He commended the ex-opposition flagbearer for demonstrating that politics was not a do-or-die affair.Edeoga had on Monday announced his return to his former party PDP.
5. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu arrived in Paris, France on Wednesday on a two-week working visit. During the period he will evaluate his administration’s progress and outline strategies for the second half of his tenure. The President will clock two years in office next month.
6. The Edo State Governorship Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Abuja on Wednesday upheld the election of Governor Monday Okpebholo of the All Progressives Congress, APC. The tribunal, in a unanimous decision by a three-member panel, said it found no reason to nullify the outcome of the governorship contest held in the state on September 21, 2024.
7. The Lagos State Police Command, on Wednesday, said it has uncovered a building in the Iju area of Lagos State used for internet fraud training. Popularly called “Yahoo School,” the command said four Yahoo experts, among them two siblings, who had been running the school, were arrested alongside six trainees.
8. After initial hesitation, the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited has increased the pump price of petrol to N925 per litre at its retail stations in Lagos and N950 per litre in Abuja. The new price regime, effective from April 2, 2025, represents an increase of N65 from the previous price of N860 per litre in Lagos and an N70 difference from the N880 previously sold in the North.
9. The Chairman of the All Progressives Congress in Rivers, Chief Tony Okocha, on Wednesday, stated that the recent claim by the former Rivers State Head of Service, George Nwaeke, that the suspended Governor, Siminalayi Fubara and his Chief of Staff, Edison Ehie, were behind the bombing of the state House of Assembly has validated their earlier position. He made the clarification in a statement issued in Abuja.
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10. Mr Asue Ighodalo, the Peoples Democratic Party candidate in the 19 September governorship election in Edo State, has said he will challenge the tribunal’s judgment at the Court of Appeal. Ighodalo, in a statement in Benin, said his decision to challenge the judgment aimed to protect Edo people’s collective rights and ensure they freely determine their future.
Those are the top Nigerian newspaper headlines for today. Read more Nigerian news on EGALITARIAN VOICE website. See you again tomorrow.
