1. The House of Representatives has passed the Constitution Alteration (State Police) Bill, 2026, seeking to establish a constitutional framework for the creation and operation of state police services across Nigeria. The proposal is part of the ongoing constitutional alteration process aimed at restructuring Nigeria’s security architecture and improving the country’s response to rising insecurity, including terrorism, banditry, kidnapping and other violent crimes.
The bill was passed on Thursday during plenary after lawmakers considered and adopted the report of the House Committee on Constitution Review, chaired by the Deputy Speaker, Benjamin Kalu
2. A major restructuring aimed to strengthen the army and prepare the institution for the existential security challenges was announced on Thursday by President Bola Tinubu. The president created four new divisions to taker the structure of the Army to 12. He also authorised the recruitment of 28,000 additional personnel.
3. Three persons accused of complicity in the kidnap of school children and three teachers in Oyo State were yesterday sentenced to life imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Abuja. The trio, all indigenes of Suleija in Niger State, are Abdulrazak Umar (a k a Abu Khalifa/Abu Khalid), Yinusa Musa (alias Yunusa Bin Musa) and Shamu Sani, also known as Abu Itisar.
4. An Enugu Air Embraer 170 aircraft suffered a runway excursion after landing at Benin Airport on Thursday, with all 67 passengers and five crew members safely evacuated and no injuries or fatalities recorded. The aircraft, with registration 5N-ENR, was seen off the runway and resting in nearby vegetation in videos that surfaced shortly after the incident.
5. The Nigerian Army has declared one of its personnel, Private Mohammed Yusuf Amutu, wanted over allegations that he unlawfully sold and supplied military uniforms to terrorists and other criminal elements. The Army disclosed this in a statement issued on Thursday by the Headquarters Nigerian Army Ordnance Corps, saying the soldier, who was serving at the Nigerian Army Ordnance Kits Factory, allegedly absconded from his unit on June 3, 2026.
6. A Federal High Court sitting in Abeokuta, Ogun State, on Thursday, declared Otunba Jimi Adebisi Lawal as the authentic governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress for the forthcoming Ogun State governorship election. The judgment, delivered by Justice Abiodun Jordan Adeyemi, resolved the protracted leadership and candidature dispute that had divided the party into rival factions, each laying claim to the governorship ticket.
7. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has disclosed that it seized more than two billion pills of tramadol within the last 18 months. The Chairman of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.), disclosed this on Thursday during a familiarisation tour of the Lekki Free Trade Zone and Lekki Deep Sea Port in Lagos.
8. Abia State Police Command has confirmed the mysterious death of five members of the same family in Umuimo, Osisioma Ngwa Local Government Area of the state. The victims, identified as Mr Kachi Nnabugwu, his wife, Chinaza, and their three children, were found dead inside their residence on Tuesday after they had not been seen for several days.
9. The United States has imposed a 12.5 per cent tariff on imports from Nigeria as part of a new trade measure targeting countries it says have failed to prohibit the importation of goods produced with forced labour.
The tariff affects imports from 60 economies that Washington says have not “imposed and effectively enforced a prohibition on the importation of goods produced with forced labour.”
10. The Chairman, Interim National Working Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Tanimu Turaki says that the main opposition party remains resilient and cannot be erased from Nigeria’s political landscape. Turaki made the assertion at a crucial PDP stakeholders’ meeting in Abuja on Thursday. He said that in spite of current leadership and legal hurdles, the PDP possessed the internal strength to navigate its trials and remained a major political force in Nigerian politics.
