1. A rice farmer identified as Taiwo Paul has been murdered by some suspected herders in the Kata Area of Ewekoro Local Government of Ogun State. It was gathered that while Paul was allegedly hacked to death by the suspects at his rice plantation in the community, another farmer identified as Peter Danjuma died of electrocution in the Isoyin area of Atan-Ijebu.

2. The Federal Government through the Nigerian Customs Service has grounded a United States-registered Gulfstream G650ER jet belonging to a leading Nigerian bank, signalling the commencement of government clampdowns on private jet owners over unpaid import duty running into several billions of naira.

3. No fewer than 20 travellers along the Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode Expressway were reportedly abducted by some gunmen at about 8 pm on Sunday while one of the victims was shot in the knee. The gunmen were said to have ambushed the travellers between Sagamu Area Command of the Nigeria Police and Ilisan township.]

4. There was outrage on Sunday over a United Kingdom-based taxi driver, who remained on the Federal Government’s payroll despite migrating to the UK in 2022. The BBC had on Sunday reported that a 36-year-old Nigerian civil servant, referred to as Sabitu Adams, not real name, moved to the United Kingdom in 2022 but was still receiving a salary as a civil servant in Nigeria.

5. The Ekiti State government has rejected the proposed plan by the Transmission Company of Nigeria, TCN and Benin Electricity Distribution Company, BEDC to put the state in blackout for nine hours daily for the two months effective from July. A notice by TCN revealed plans by the firm to carry out critical maintenance work on the 132kV Akure Osogbo transmission line.

6. There will be no peace for any drug dealer in Kano State, Governor Abba Yusuf has warned. The Governor, was on Sunday, reacting to the boldness exhibited by some drug dealers who sought legal recourse through court orders for the release of their confiscated illicit drug shipments.

7. Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State has said he has no regrets in the last seven and a half years that he has been in charge of the state. He said his government has delivered and surpassed all electioneering promises he made to the people.

8. Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have disrupted a drug party dubbed ‘Go Hard or Go Home: Pick Your Poison,’ where 60 suspects comprising 25 males and 35 females were arrested at an apartment in Sun City Estate in Abuja. The spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in a statement noted that the raid followed credible intelligence about the drug party.

9. The death toll in last weekend’s suicide bomb attacks at a wedding ceremony in Gwoza, Borno State has risen to 18 while no fewer than 42 others sustained injuries of varying degrees, the Director General, State Emergency Management Agency, SEMA, Dr Barkindo Saidu, confirmed, on Sunday.

10. The Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Police Command has refuted the report that Martins Vincent Otse popularly known as Verydarkman has been arrested. The police said he was only invited for questioning on the allegations of cyberstalking, cyberbullying and defamation of character.