Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian newspapers:
1. President of Dangote Industries Limited, Aliko Dangote, has attributed the high price of petrol in Nigeria partly to the continued smuggling of the commodity to neighbouring countries, where it sells for significantly more. Dangote said petrol prices in neighbouring countries were between 30 and 50 per cent higher than in Nigeria, arguing that the price difference creates a strong financial incentive for traders to move petrol out of the country.
2. Nigeria Democratic Congress, NDC, presidential candidate, Peter Obi, has asked the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, to release his academic records following reports of legal action seeking Certified True Copies of his university certificates and other admission records. Obi, in a statement on X, said he had no objection to the release of his Bachelor of Arts degree in Philosophy, which he said was awarded by the university in 1984, as well as other academic records.
3. Suspected armed herders on Monday ambushed the entourage of the Divisional Police Officer of Ayilamo in Logo Local Government Area of Benue State, killing two police officers. Sources in the community told journalists on Tuesday that the DPO, who had travelled to Makurdi on official assignment, was returning to Ayilamo when his entourage ran into the armed herders.
4. The National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, has said headline inflation fell to 15.39 per cent in August 2026 from 15.43 per cent recorded in July 2026. The Statistician-General of the Federation, Prince Adeyemi Adeniran, stated this in a statement on Tuesday.
5. All Progressives Congress, APC, governors and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister Nyesom Wike on Tuesday disagreed over campaign structures and strategies ahead of next year’s elections. The governors, under the aegis of the Progressive Governors’ Forum (PGF) and led by Governor Hope Uzodimma of Imo State, ruled out any cross-party alliances and external political arrangements and resolved to deploy the party’s structures for mobilisation.
6. Former governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has said it is now difficult to rig an election. Speaking on Channels Television, Fayose also said that politics is not a tea party, stating that Tinubu will have 12 million votes.
7. The African Democratic Congress has accused President Bola Tinubu of pushing Nigerians dangerously close to the limits of human endurance. In a statement in Abuja on Tuesday, the party’s National Publicity Secretary, Bolaji Abdullahi, said that with petrol now selling for as much as N1,470 per litre, every journey had become more expensive, while food and even basic education were being priced out of the reach of citizens.
8. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a Mexican drug kingpin allegedly linked to a transnational methamphetamine cartel and dismantled another industrial-scale laboratory in Ebonyi State. The suspect, identified as Arturo Carrera Loaiza, was arrested on August 19, 2026, while attempting to flee Nigeria through Lagos airport, the agency disclosed on Tuesday.
9. Nasarawa State Governor, Abdullahi Sule, has announced Emmanuel Ombugadu as the deputy governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress in the state, following a decision reached at a stakeholders’ meeting held at the Governor’s Lodge, Abuja, on Monday. Briefing journalists after the meeting, Sule said the choice was reached after consultations among the aspirants who had shown interest in the position.
10. The naira on Tuesday appreciated to N1,380 per dollar from N1,390 in the parallel market on Monday. However, the naira depreciated to N1,329.5 per dollar in the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market, NFEM.
