Ten Essential Facts About Nigerian Newspapers On the early hours of Sunday morning ‎Good day! A rundown of today’s news in Nigerian newspapers is as follows:

1. On Saturday, an explosion occurred at the DICON factory in Kaduna, resulting in one death and four injuries. There was an incident at the corporation’s ordnance disposal pit in the Kurmin Gwari neighbourhood of Kaduna metropolis at around 10 in the morning. It was connected to the usage of expired raw materials in the fabrication of weaponry.

2. A Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Mathew Eya, who was the parish priest of St. Charles Catholic Church in Eha-Ndiagu, Nsukka Local Government Area, Enugu State, was allegedly murdered by gunmen. On Friday night, as the clergyman was making his way back to his parish along the Eha-Ndiagu route, the event allegedly took place, according to community sources.

3. A peculiar flesh-eating disease has killed seven people in Malabo, Adamawa, and the federal government has taken samples to be tested in labs to find out what it is. In an interview on Saturday, Dr. Adesigbin Olufemi—the Acting National Coordinator of the National Tuberculosis, Buruli Ulcer, and Leprosy Control Programme—disclosed this.

4. On Saturday, a group affiliated with the now-defunct Congress for Progressives Change clarified that it was not involved in the recent visit to AtikuNewspapers Abubakar’s Abuja residence by a small number of its members. It stressed that the visit was the result of the individual decisions of a small number of people and not the group’s official stance.

5. Following the passing of Grace Adayilo, Head of Service of the Federal Capital Territory, on Monday, September 1st, 2025, President Bola Tinubu has ordered that all four of her children be employed immediately. On Saturday, during the funeral service for the late Adayilo at the National Christian Centre in Abuja, the appointments were announced by Nyesom Wike, the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.

6. Jude Onouha, a 46-year-old man, was apprehended by the Lagos State Police Command. He was recognised as the mastermind and commander of an infamous gang that preyed on luxury cars in Lagos estates by impersonating security personnel. The group fooled the estate’s security guards by dressing like security guards and using a Mercedes-Benz automobile jack that had been converted to seem like a gun, according to the Command on Saturday via X.

The 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly will be held in New York from Monday, September 22, 2025, to Sunday, September 28, 2025, and Vice-President Kashim Shettima will head Nigeria’s mission there. This was stated on Saturday by Stanley Nkwocha, who is the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Communications in the Office of the Vice President.

Protesting the murder of five farmers on their way to the farm in the outskirts of Makurdi, abutting Guma Local Government Area of Benue State, villagers along the Makurdi-Lafia route blocked the highway on Saturday. Three bodies were left lying in the road as protesters blocked the road following the occurrences that took place on Friday and early Saturday.

9. If fair elections were held, any leader who does not execute their job should be removed from office, according to former president Goodluck Jonathan. Electoral manipulation, he added, is a major danger to African democracy, and the continent’s democracies may perish unless relevant parties band together to reconsider and improve their systems.

10. In a well-coordinated night air operation in Bula in Yobe and the Banki axis of Borno, the Nigerian Air Force has killed over 25 terrorists. Commodore Ehimen Ejodame, the Director of Public Relations and Information at the Nigerian Air Force, made this announcement on Saturday in Abuja.