President Bola Tinubu has approved a lifetime salary for senior officers retiring from the Ministry of Interior, which was made known by the Minister of Interior, Dr. Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo, while speaking at the 2025 Ministerial Retreat on Thursday.

The Department of State Services (DSS) and the Nigerian Army (NA) have eliminated more than 50 bandits and also rescued kidnapped victims in Kumbashi village, Mariga Local Government Area of Niger State.

Sultan of Sokoto, Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, has expressed concerns that the country’s justice system has continued to favors only the wealthy, to the detriment of the common man. The Islamic supreme leader was speaking yesterday Sunday in Enugu during the Annual General Conference of the Nigerian Bar Association, NBA. He noted that corruption and inequality are weakening the Nigeria’s courts, adding, “Justice is increasingly becoming a purchasable commodity, and the poor is always the victims of the system, while the rich commit all manner of crime and walk the streets scot-free.”

Troops deployed to the Joint Task Force of Operation HADIN KAI (OPHK) have neutralized nine Boko Haram terrorists including two top commanders.

Chief of Defence Staff, CDS, General Christopher Musa, has disclosed that the recent increase in terrorist related killings across the length and breadth of the country is politically motivated, meaning is connected to the build-up of the 2027 general election. In recent months, Nigeria is witnessing a surge in Boko hAram activities in the North-East, unprecedented banditry attacks in the North-West, while states like Benue and Plateau have remained hotspots for violence herders killing the locals.

The United States government has expressed concern over the continued devaluation of naira visa viz the new national minimum wage, warning that the recently approved N70,000 benchmark cannot lift citizens out of poverty due to the country’s worsening economic conditions. The US authority stated this in its 2024 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, released on August 12, 2025 Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labour, Washington noted that the minimum wage, currently valued at about $47.90 per month at the prevailing exchange rate of over N1,500 to the dollar, has been severely eroded by the continued depreciation of the naira.