President Bola Ahmed Tinubu approved the establishment of a new Police Academy campus in Erinja, Yewa South Local Government Area of Ogun State, along with a N15 billion special take-off grant. The Federal Capital Territory Minister, Nyesom Wike, challenged the PDP faction aligned with Taminu Turaki to occupy the party's National Secretariat if they believed they were in control, speaking at their NEC meeting in Abuja. Ahead of the 2027 elections, supporters of Peter Obi and Rabiu Kwankwaso launched the Obi–Kwankwaso (OK) movement, a political pressure group emerging from tensions within the African Democratic Congress over its presidential candidacy. Chief of Defence Staff Olufemi Oluyede urged troops in Gusau, Zamfara State, to intensify operations against bandits under Operation Fansan Yamma, insisting Nigeria must be secured "at all cost". In Kwara State, suspected bandits killed at least three soldiers in a pre-dawn attack on a joint security post in Kemanji, Kaiama Local Government Area, stealing weapons and an army gun truck. A Federal High Court in Abuja admitted nine exhibits in the ongoing EFCC trial of former Attorney-General Abubakar Malami, his wife Hajia Bashir Asabe, and their son Abubakar Malami. The naira rose to N1,387 per dollar in the parallel market but dipped to N1,349.7 per dollar at the Nigerian Foreign Exchange Market. Boko Haram released a video threatening to disperse 416 abducted people in Borno State if demands are not met within 72 hours. Gunmen kidnapped at least 15 passengers aboard a Sea Express boat on the Calabar–Oron waterway in Cross River State on Friday, with rescue operations underway. The FCCPC's Tunji Bello welcomed a Federal High Court decision dismissing Air Peace Limited's suit challenging the commission's investigative powers over consumer complaints.
The same government approving a N15 billion police campus is overseeing a military under repeated attack by bandits who now seize army vehicles. While the Chief of Defence Staff declares Nigeria will be secured "at all cost", soldiers are being killed and equipment lost in raids that expose operational vulnerabilities. The abduction of 15 people on a waterway and Boko Haram's public threat over 416 captives suggest security forces are reactive rather than in control. Nigerians named in these events—soldiers, passengers, hostages—are paying the price of this disconnect.
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