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Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines Today – 30th October 2026.
So, here are the top newspaper headlines making waves across Nigeria today, 30th October 2026.
1. The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has cleared former Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Pantami, and the Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, governorship candidate in Kano State, Abdulsalam Gwarzo, to contest the 2027 elections. According to the commission, this is subject to the outcomes of pending court cases.
2. A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja on Thursday ordered the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to remove the name of Imo State governor, Hope Uzodimma, as the senatorial candidate for Imo West. The court specifically asked the electoral umpire to replace Uzodinma as the candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, with the name of former governor Rochas Okorocha.
3. President Bola Tinubu has responded to criticism from opposition leaders over the Federal Government’s efforts to access fresh loans from international institutions and banks. Tinubu identified the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway, Trans-Sahara Superhighway, electricity grid upgrades and the modernisation of key commercial ports in Lagos as major projects expected to strengthen Nigeria’s productive capacity.
4. The National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, has destroyed banned, fake and adulterated products worth about N8 billion seized during enforcement operations in the North-Central zone. The destruction exercise took place on Thursday in Lafia, Nasarawa State, during the agency’s North-Central zonal destruction of regulated products.
5. Presidential candidate of Nigeria Democratic Congress, Peter Obi, on Thursday alleged that President Bola Tinubu spent over 260 days out of the country but cannot spend 36 days to go round the states of the federation to campaign for next year’s general election. Obi, who declared himself the leading presidential candidate for the 2027 election, said the President did not have the energy to run the country and therefore should pack up and leave Aso Rock.
6. Troops of the Joint Task Force, Operation Hadin Kai, have neutralised 44 suspected Boko Haram and ISWAP terrorists in several offensive operations across Borno State. The operations also left scores of terrorists injured, while their vehicles, motorcycles and improvised explosive device materials were destroyed.
7. The Katsina State Police Command on Thursday arrested 14 suspects over an attack on a convoy of All Progressives Congress supporters along the Yashi–Funtua Road in Malumfashi Local Government Area of the state. The incident occurred on Wednesday, October 28, 2026, as the convoy was travelling through Malumfashi to Funtua for a campaign flag-off.
8. President Bola Tinubu on Thursday evening arrived in Saudi Arabia, landing at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah. He was received by Nigeria’s ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Yakubu Gambo, and the Saudi head of royal protocol Ahmad bin Thafir.
9. One hundred and fifty-four students of Government Science Secondary School, Batagarawa, Katsina State, were hospitalised following a suspected adverse reaction to praziquantel tablets administered to treat bilharzia. The incident occurred on Monday, according to a statement issued on Thursday by the Katsina State Police Command’s Public Relations Officer, Abubakar Sadiq Aliyu.
10. Troops of the Joint Task Force (JTF), Operation Whirl Stroke, have arrested two suspected bandit logistics suppliers and two suspected armed robbers in Benue State. A statement signed by Lt. Ahmad Zubairu, Acting Media Information Officer, Headquarters of JTF Operation Whirl Stroke, and made available to newsmen on Wednesday in Makurdi, said the arrests were made on October 28.
