Top Nigeria Newspaper Headlines Today 1st July 2024 [Monday]

Below is the summary of top Nigeria Newspaper Headlines for today 1st July 2024 being Monday.

Top Nigeria Newspaper Headlines Today 1st July 2024 [Monday]

1. The Federal Government, through the Nigerian Customs Service, has grounded a United States-registered Gulfstream G650ER jet belonging to a leading Nigerian bank, marking the beginning of a crackdown on private jet owners over unpaid import duties amounting to several billions of naira.

2. A rice farmer named Taiwo Paul has been murdered by suspected herders in the Kata Area of Ewekoro Local Government, Ogun State. While Paul was allegedly hacked to death at his rice plantation, another farmer, Peter Danjuma, died of electrocution in the Isoyin area of Atan-Ijebu.

3. At least 20 travelers along the Sagamu-Ijebu-Ode Expressway were reportedly abducted by gunmen around 8 pm on Sunday, with one victim shot in the knee. The gunmen ambushed the travelers between the Sagamu Area Command of the Nigeria Police and Ilisan township.

4. Outrage erupted on Sunday over a UK-based taxi driver who remained on the Federal Government’s payroll despite migrating to the UK in 2022. The BBC reported that a 36-year-old Nigerian civil servant, referred to as Sabitu Adams (not his real name), moved to the UK in 2022 but continued to receive a salary as a civil servant in Nigeria.

5. The Ekiti State government has rejected the proposed plan by the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) and Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC) to impose a nine-hour daily blackout for two months starting in July. A notice by TCN revealed plans to carry out critical maintenance on the 132kV Akure-Osogbo transmission line.

6. There will be no peace for any drug dealer in Kano State, Governor Abba Yusuf has warned. The governor’s statement on Sunday came in response to drug dealers who sought legal recourse for the release of their confiscated illicit drug shipments.

7. Governor Godwin Obaseki of Edo State stated he has no regrets over the last seven and a half years in office, asserting that his government has delivered and surpassed all election promises made to the people.

8. Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) disrupted a drug party dubbed “Go Hard or Go Home: Pick Your Poison,” arresting 60 suspects, including 25 males and 35 females, at an apartment in Sun City Estate, Abuja. NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi noted on Sunday that the raid followed credible intelligence about the drug party.

9. The death toll from last weekend’s suicide bomb attacks at a wedding ceremony in Gwoza, Borno State, has risen to 18, with no fewer than 42 others sustaining injuries of varying degrees, confirmed Dr. Barkindo Saidu, Director General of the State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA), on Sunday.

10. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Police Command has refuted reports that Martins Vincent Otse, popularly known as Verydarkman, has been arrested. The police clarified that he was only invited for questioning on allegations of cyberstalking, cyberbullying, and defamation of character.