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Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines Today – 8th July 2026.
So, here are the top newspaper headlines making waves across Nigeria today, 8th July 2026.
1. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has directed the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission to conduct a thorough investigation into the activities of a “Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council” PFIPC and all related matters. Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga on Tuesday, said the President directed that the investigation be concluded and a comprehensive report submitted to him within 30 days.
2. Hajiya Asiya El-Rufai, wife of former Kaduna State Governor, has told President Bola Ahmed Tinubu that her husband does not deserve the treatment he is currently receiving. Hajia Asiya, who was flanked by El-Rufai’s other wife, Aichatou, was reacting to the arrest of her husband’s personnel physician, Prof Bello Abubakar, as confirmed by the ICPC on Tuesday.
3. The Presidential Working Group on the National Policing Bill has swung into action. It was inaugurated by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu who said the operation of State Police can no more be delayed. He said the body would prepare the legal framework for its implementation across the country.
4. The Senate has urged the Federal Government to halt the policy of rehabilitating and reintegrating former Boko Haram members into society, and ensure that perpetrators of terrorism and banditry are, instead, arrested and made to face the full wrath of the law. The resolutions followed a motion of urgent national importance on escalating attacks, abductions and killings of serving and retired military personnel, sponsored by the Chairman, Senate Committee on Army, Senator Abdulaziz Yar’Adua, during plenary, on Tuesday.
5. The Naira on Tuesday depreciated to N1,405 per dollar in the parallel market from N1,400 per dollar on Monday. Likewise, the naira depreciated to N1,379 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, NFEM.
6. The Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ola Olukoyede, on Tuesday handed over 1,452 items recovered from the proceeds of crime to the Federal Ministry of Education to support schools across the country. The recovered items, comprising 501 double-step bunk beds, 939 mattresses and 12 wooden beds with mattresses, were formally presented to the Minister of Education, Dr Tunji Alausa, at a ceremony in Abuja.
7. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is set to arraign the former Managing Director of Warri Refining and Petrochemical Company Ltd, Jimoh Yisawu, on Friday, and the former Managing Director of Port Harcourt Refining Company Ltd, Ahmed Dikko, on Wednesday, over separate money laundering charges bordering on hundreds of millions of naira and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
8. Scores of demonstrators stormed the National Assembly in Abuja on Tuesday, urging the Senate to suspend the confirmation of Prof Abayomi Fasina as a non-career ambassadorial nominee. The protesters based their demand on allegations of sexual harassment, human rights violations and victimisation, which they said are before the courts.
9. The Delta State Police Command has demoted an inspector and a corporal after they were found guilty of extortion and other misconduct following a viral video that showed them receiving money from a motorist through a Point-of-Sale terminal inside a police station. The command’s Police Public Relations Officer, SP Bright Edafe, disclosed this in a statement on Tuesday, saying the officers were sanctioned after an orderly room trial found them guilty of the offences.
10. A middle-aged woman in the Ukum Local Government Area of Benue State, identified as Mbayegh, was reported to have set two children of her lover ablaze over a little disagreement. The incident, according to a local source, occurred in the early hours of Monday, July 6, 2026, in the Kaffe area of Zaki-Biam, in the Ukum Local Government Area of the state when the suspect visited her lover and suspected he was hiding another woman.
