Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:
1. The Police Service Commission, on Friday, ordered all senior police officers who have either exceeded 35 years in service or are above the age of 60 to proceed on retirement with immediate effects. Speaking to journalists on Friday in Abuja, the spokesman of the PSC, Ikechukwu Ani, explained that the commission did not want any law that is inconsistent with Public Service Rule No. 020908 (i & ii).
2. Some soldiers were reportedly killed on Friday, while others sustained injuries after a suspected drunk driver rammed into them in the Shomolu area of Lagos state. The incident occurred few minutes after the soldiers set out on the route march from Myoung Barracks in the Morocco area of Shomolu.
3. Minister of State for Defence, Bello Matawalle has accused former Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, of attempting to manipulate Nigerian youths into chaos. Reacting to the speech of Amaechi at a national conference on strengthening democracy in Nigeria, organised by the African Centre for Leadership, Strategy and Development, Matawalle, warned the former minister to guard his utterances.
4. The military high command says the Court of Appeal’s affirmation of the Indigenous People of Biafra as a terrorists’ group is a morale booster. It specifically stated that the ruling by the Court would motivate the military through its frontline troops to expedite action in destroying and dismantling the terror group wherever they may be hiding.
5. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has appointed Abba Abubakar Aliyu as the substantive Managing Director of the Rural Electrification Agency, REA. This was contained in a statement issued by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on Friday.
6. Governor Mai Mala Buni of Yobe State has been elected as the new chairman of the Lake Chad Basin Governors Forum. Buni assumed leadership of the forum during the 5th Meeting of the Lake Chad Governors Forum, where he was entrusted with the role for the next two years.
7. The Senator representing Delta North, Ned Nwoko, has resigned his membership of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), citing “deep divisions” as his reason. Nwoko’s decision was conveyed in a letter dated January 30 and addressed to the chairman of the Aniocha North LGA.
8. The Peoples Democratic Party Governors Forum rose from its first 2025 monthly meeting held in Asaba on Friday, with a resolution backing the judgment of the Court of Appeal, which pronounced the former National Youth Leader of the party, Hon. S.K.E Udeh-Okoye, as the authentic National Secretary of the PDP and advised the party’s National Working Committee to implement the court decision.
9. Supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, believed to be loyalists of the Governor of Rivers State, Siminialayi Fubara, and the Minister of Federal Capital Territory, Chief Nyesom Wike, on Friday clashed at the Secretariat of the party in Port Harcourt with heavy gunshot sounds.
10. Operatives of the Bauchi State Police Command on Friday announced the arrest of several members of a four-man syndicate that specialises in robbing bank customers. The syndicate also uses locally fabricated master keys to gain unauthorised access to their victims’ vehicles.
