- Nyesom Wike, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), has begun enrolling all vulnerable pregnant women in the FCT in the Federal Capital Territory Health Insurance Scheme (FHIS). Dolapo Fasawe, the Mandate Secretary of Health Services and Environment of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), announced this on Thursday in Abuja.
- President Bola Tinubu has expressed his unhappiness with the approach of a part of the organised labour. He argued that calling four strikes within nine months of a new administration was unacceptable. Tinubu spoke on Thursday in Lagos, where he launched the first phase of the Lagos Rail Mass Transit, or LRMT Red Line project, a 37-kilometer project that is projected to reduce travel time and improve transportation and logistics in the state.
- President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has urged cement companies to return to the status quo on commodities prices. Senator David Umahi, Minister of Works, told this to journalists shortly after viewing the BUA cement factory in Sokoto on Thursday.
- Kabir Rabiu, Group Executive Director (GED) of BUA Cement Plc, confirmed the company’s resolve to decrease cement prices from between N9, 000 and N15, 000 to between N7,000 and N8,000. He did, however, base the company’s commitment to the vow cement producers made at their meeting with the Federal Government on the proximity of markets to their factories nationwide.
- Benue State Governor Hyacinth Alia has prohibited political meetings and gatherings in the state until further notice. Alia explained that the prohibition was based on intelligence about the state’s security condition. The decision, announced in a statement by Paul Biam, the governor’s Chief of Staff, specifically mentioned the presence of armed herders in the state.
- The Senate has urged the Police Service Commission, PSC, to recruit a minimum of 10 candidates from each of the 774 local government areas, LGAs of the country. This followed the adoption of a motion by Senator Udende Memga (APC, Benue) on Thursday at plenary.
- Dr. Ben Oramalugo, Nigeria Customs Service Area Controller, Oyo/Osun Area Command, stated that the command confiscated bogus pharmaceuticals containing Augmentin pills, Ampiclox, and Amoxicillin capsules disguised in 53 bags with a Duty Paid Value of N1,739,000,000.00. Oramalugo made the announcement on Thursday during the command’s second press conference, which was held at its operational headquarters in Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State.
- Olayemi Cardoso, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, has stated that all banks have cleared foreign exchange backlogs with the exception of five. Cardoso stated this on Thursday during an investor call hosted by the Nigerian Exchange Group, adding that the balance of the banks’ FX backlogs would be cleared over the next few days.
- On Wednesday evening, there was mayhem on the Benin-Asaba Expressway near Iguomo Junction after a stray gunshot purportedly fired from a police rifle struck and killed a citizen in the neighborhood. The unidentified man was alleged to have been shot by a stray bullet in front of the home of a PoS operator, when he had gone to transmit N4000 to his wife in his community.
- On Thursday, the Niger State Police Command announced that it had apprehended four individuals in possession of 295 rounds of AK-47 rifle live ammunition. Wasiu Abiodun, the state Police Public Relations Officer, confirmed this in a statement, saying that another suspect admitted that the ammo was purchased in Kaduna State.