Adeniyi Adeyemi, head of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council, was taken into custody in Osun State shortly after an Abuja Federal High Court issued an arrest warrant for his failure to appear. In federal legislative news, President Bola Tinubu has formally requested that Speaker Tajudeen Abbas and the House of Representatives amend the 1999 Constitution to allow for state police, aiming to improve national security infrastructure. Meanwhile, Justice Emeka Nwite of the Abuja Federal High Court sentenced Muhammad Sani to 20 years in prison for shielding a notorious bandit named Danranmi from law enforcement.
Law enforcement in Lagos has broken up a major vehicle fraud ring that swindled car dealers out of over N1 billion, with police successfully recovering multiple stolen luxury cars across the country. In a separate and violent incident, the Lagos State Police Command is actively seeking gunmen responsible for the killing of NURTW Organising Secretary Toba Ajiboye, known as Toba Ijaya, on Ikorodu road. On a positive note, a group of teachers and students kidnapped in Oyo State finally returned home after 56 days of captivity, sharing an emotional reunion with their families at the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital.
Internationally, a UK coroner determined that Beatrice Solomon, a Nigerian woman who moved to the country in 2023, took her own life following a struggle with mental health. In Benue State, armed herders attacked the Ondo community in Otukpo, resulting in one fatality and forcing residents to flee. In Rivers State, authorities arrested a man named Richard for the alleged murder of his girlfriend, Caroline Sunday, following a heated argument regarding infidelity. Finally, PDP elder Olabode George publicly criticized ongoing efforts to interfere with his party through legal and institutional maneuvering, warning that such actions are designed to weaken the opposition before the 2027 elections.
