Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:

1. President Bola Tinubu on Monday approved the appointment of 26 persons to the boards and management of 10 federal government agencies and commissions. Among the appointees is Ayo Fayose, former governor of Ekiti, who was named chairman of the board of the Rural Electrification Agency, REA.

2. The Chief of Staff to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday, honoured an invitation by the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, appearing before investigators probing the activities of the fictitious Presidential Foreign Investment Promotion Council, PFIPC. Gbajabiamila’s appearance comes nearly two weeks after President Bola Tinubu directed the anti-graft agency to conduct a comprehensive investigation into the fake presidential agency.

3. The Department of State Services is set to appeal Monday’s life sentence handed to two top commanders of the Ansaru Terror organization by a Federal High Court, Abuja. Justice Emeka Nwite had, shortly after Mahmud Usman, a.k.a Abu Bara’a/Abbas/Mukhtar, the self-styled Emir of Ansaru; and Abubakar Abba, a.k.a Mahmud al-Nigeri/Malam Mamuda, pleaded guilty to all the 32-count charges against them, sentenced both men to life imprisonment but the service viewed the punish as too light.

4. Vice-President Kashim Shettima has urged West African leaders to collectively confront the wave of xenophobic attacks in South Africa. He reminded South Africans that countries such as Nigeria made enormous sacrifices to support the anti apartheid struggle, including deductions from students’ scholarship allowances to finance liberation movements.

5. The House of Representatives has begun clause-by-clause consideration of President Bola Tinubu’s executive bill seeking the establishment of state police, with lawmakers indicating they might adopt the Senate-passed version of the legislation with only minor adjustments. Speaking at the meeting of the House Committee on Constitution Review, the Deputy Speaker of the House and Chairman of the Constitution Review Committee, Benjamin Kalu, said the House would leverage the work already done by the Senate to expedite the passage.

6. Former governor of Kano State and vice-presidential candidate of the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, Rabiu Kwankwaso, said on Monday that he believed the party’s presidential candidate, Peter Obi, would honour his pledge to serve only one four-year term if elected in 2027, revealing that both men signed a written agreement to that effect. He said both of them signed a written agreement on this.

7. At least 40 women and children are feared dead after a canoe conveying passengers capsized in Ringim Local Government Area of Jigawa State. The Jigawa State Police Command confirmed the incident on Monday, stating that search and rescue operations were ongoing to locate the missing passengers.

8. Despite Nigeria’s headline inflation rate easing marginally in June 2026, residents in more than half of the country’s states continued to face annual inflation above 30 per cent, with Niger, Kogi and the Federal Capital Territory recording the highest rates. The latest Consumer Price Index report released by the National Bureau of Statistics showed that headline inflation slowed slightly to 15.91 per cent in June from 15.93 per cent recorded in May.

9. Tension gripped the Gero community in the Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State on Monday after the bodies of two unidentified females were discovered behind the headquarters of the council. The discovery sparked widespread protests by women in the area, who took to the streets and temporarily blocked a section of the expressway, causing heavy traffic disruption. Eyewitnesses said the bodies were found early Monday morning, prompting residents to troop to the scene.

10. Troops of Operation Hadin Kai have arrested two foreign nationals, including a 32-year-old Sudanese man and a 36-year-old Ghanaian woman, in Askira/Uba Local Government Area of Borno State. The army identified the Sudanese, Musa Fashir, as a suspected foreign terrorist fighter and collaborator, while the Ghanaian, Mary Florence, is said to be an illegal immigrant.