Nigerian Newspaper Headlines, Naija News For Thursday 11th December 2025

Nigerian Newspaper Headlines, Naija News For Thursday 11th December  2025, Can Be Accessed Below.

1. President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Wednesday reaffirmed his directive that police officers currently attached to VIPs be withdrawn and redeployed to conflict-prone areas, insisting that the nation cannot afford to keep essential security manpower away from pressing security theatres. He said police officers protecting ministers should also be withdrawn.

2. Governor Ademola Adeleke on Wednesday emerged the Accord Party’s gubernatorial candidate for the 2026 Osun State governorship election. Adeleke, who was the sole aspirant, secured 145 out of 150 delegate votes to clinch the party’s ticket.

3. Nigeria’s corruption crisis is so pervasive that a strict enforcement of existing laws could land the majority of citizens in prison, the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC has warned. The alarm was raised by the ICPC Resident Anti-Corruption Commissioner for Kaduna State, Sakaba Ishaku, at a capacity-building workshop on local government accountability convened on Wednesday by the State Ministry for Local Government and Chieftaincy Affairs.

4. The Federal Operations Unit, FOU Zone ‘A’ of the Nigeria Customs Service, NCS, on Wednesday said, it recorded a significant milestone in its ongoing efforts to combat smuggling. The immediate past Controller of the Unit, ACG Mohammed Shuaibu, while giving account of his seven months’ stewardship, stated the Unit impounded prohibited goods valued at a staggering N10.1 billion within seven months.

5. Troops of 8 Division of the Nigerian Army, Sokoto, have neutralised notorious bandit kingpin, Kachalla Kallamu, in Sabon Birnin local government area. A reliable source from the army disclosed the major operational success to the newsmen on Wednesday.

6. Governor Siminialayi Fubara of Rivers State has said he suffered so much as a governor because he refused to tell his own side of the story in the lingering political crisis in the state. Fubara also explained that he has not been able to meet with the Speaker of the state House of Assembly, Martins Amaewhule, and the other lawmakers, after the state of emergency in the state, because the legislators were bent on attending only meetings convened by Chief Nyesom Wike.

7. Former Anambra State governor and immediate past Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr. Chris Ngige, is in the custody of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, not a kidnap victim, despite a surge of panic and speculation that swept through political circles on Wednesday. His media aide, Fred Chukwuelobe, stepped in swiftly to douse the rumour after receiving a flurry of calls from journalists, associates and well-wishers.

8. Three yet to be identified members of the same family, father, mother and their young child were recovered dead in the early hours of on Wednesday, in a multi auto crash, involving four vehicles at Lagos State Secretariat, inward Otedola Bridge, along the Lagos–Ibadan Expressway.

9. The Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said on Wednesday that it arrested two suspected traffickers and seized 763kg of skunk cannabis in the state. The state commander, Mitchell Ofoyeju, disclosed this in a statement, noting that the arrests and seizures were part of the agency’s pre-Yuletide drug control strategies.

10. Nigerians residing in Ghana were among the 41 suspects arrested across Accra on Tuesday for allegedly engaging in unauthorised foreign exchange activities. Others arrested during the Ghanaian Criminal Investigation Department’s joint operation included nationals of Ghana, Togo and Benin.