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03/02/2025

SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, MONDAY 03/02/2025

Tems wins Best African Music Performance at 2025 Grammy Awards

Third party insurance: Police begin enforcement in FCT, Kwara, Delta, others

Exchange rate appreciates by N63 to seven-month high

Telcos reject NLC’s call for mass action

Electricity tariff hike looms as FG plans to end subsidy

Reps didn’t demand N480m bribe to approve varsities’ budgets – VC

EU condemns US tariffs, warns of retaliation

Musk brands USAID as ‘criminal organization’ amid row

FG mourns ex-German President Köhler

Nigeria on alert as Uganda confirms Ebola outbreak

30 killed as two buses crash, catch fire in Ondo

Ogunlana assumes office as N’Assembly clerk

NGF hails Diri’s emergence as South-South govs’ forum chair

Army destroys 12 illegal refineries, arrests 16 suspects in N’Delta

Man undergoes life-saving surgery as NDLEA removes 57 co***ne pellets

Presidency to Atiku, El-Rufai, Obi, others: we’ll meet in 2027

Nasarawa pivotal to minerals development, says Alake

Cautious optimism as FG lifts ban on Zamfara mining

PTAD clears N1.18bn in pension arrears

12,241 informal sector RSA holders save N967m – PenCom

3.9m girls enrolled in school under AGILE, says Fed Govt

Housing deficit opportunity for transformation – Minister

Agric: Fed Govt appoints Ekiti as pilot state in Southwest

TETFund: 23,938 lecturers for PhD programmes, 17,700 for Master’s degrees sponsored in 13 years

OPS kicks as businesses lose N2.5tn to administrative bottlenecks

NAHCON seeks 2% CBN’s charge removal to reduce hajj fare

91% of corporate loans performing, says CBN

FBN: Why banks cannot comply with order lifting restrictions on GHL’s accounts

GHL: FBN’s alleged appeal of orderlifting Mareva abuse of court process

Eight listed companies incur N8.67tn debt – Report

4G adoption to hit 50 per cent in Nigeria by 2030-GSMA

PwC projects 26% inflation decline in 2025

Coca-Cola unveils packaging collection hub in Lagos

Ex-electoral commission chair, Humphrey Nwosu, for burial March 28

I believe Ladoja has information on Bola Ige’s murder – Akande

Ijebu elders lobbied late Gen Murtala, wanted Sagamu as Ogun capital – Obasanjo

Renewed Hope gives 150m grants to 300 farmers in Rivers

Establishment of Shariah panel is constitutional, says MUSWEN

Nwoko defected over fear of losing 2027 ticket – Oborevwori’s aide

Osun 2026: Consensus guber candidate likely by leaders in APC —Basiru

Prostrate and make peace with Tinubu—PDP Rep member Oke charges Aregbesola

Current crisis will make PDP stronger, says Zamfara gov

Mutfwang Dismisses Witch-Hunt As Plateau Unveils New 20-Year Master Plan

‘It’s inhumane,’ Ogun vows to probe monarch seen molesting man in viral video

Ebonyi revenue service denies awarding contracts to Governor Nwifuru’s brothers

Kano revives garment-making training centre

Ogun mandates covered waste bins for residents

N11.5bn lost to Shonga rice plantation flooding – Kwara Rep

I never incited public against Adeleke, says monarch

Gunmen abduct Ibadan agro worker, demand N100m ransom

Police confirm abduction of two siblings, woman in Kwara

Police rescue 23 kidnapped victims in Kaduna

Many killed, houses burnt as suspected herdsmen invade Ebonyi community

Police free woman held hostage in Abuja hotel by online date

Vice Principal, wife, 3 children perish in Borno inferno

03/02/2025



* February is Black History Month

* Giraffes can go up to three weeks without a drink, longer than camels at about two weeks. When they do drink, they can drink as much as 50 litres of water at a go.
Naira appreciates as govt clears $7bn FX backlog

03/02/2025


* On this day in 1972, the deadliest snowstorm in history killed 4000. The Iran Blizzard lasted a week and left whole villages without survivors

03/02/2025

If you don’t listen to your customers, someone else will. – Sam Walton

02/02/2025

SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, SUNDAY 02/02/2025

Dangote refinery crashes petrol to N890 per litre

Reps, NCC urge labour to shelve planned protest

Girl accused of poisoning five breaks silence after acquittal

A’Ibom roads deserted as CP leads enforcement of third-party insurance

MTN spent N11bn to fix 2,502km fibre cables – GSMA

UFC: Imavov stuns Israel Adesanya in shocking knock-out

Amaechi’s comment on Tinubu threat to democracy – Ohanaeze Ndigbo

Outcry as Bayelsa vigilante chains widow, 71, to a pole

Trump orders bombing of ISIS targets in Somalia

Nigerians abroad craze for fake marriage certificates

US-based Nigerian doctor allegedly kills self over $15,000 child support

Flag designer Taiwo Akinkunmi’s family seeks immortalisation, govt employment

Abbas canvasses common, standardised, updated curriculum

Farotimi faces two cases, over N1bn damages claim despite Afe Babalola’s case withdrawal

Court remands Enugu husband for severing wife’s hand

Nigerians Lament Corruption But Defend Corrupt Leaders – EFCC Chair

GEF, UNDP, REA kick-off 23 additional mini-grids

FG to spend $600m yearly on electricity subsidy

23,673 disengaged workers withdraw N33bn from pension savings – PenCom

NSCDC destroys illegal mining site in Osun

Idle Ajaokuta steel gulped N1bn pensions, taxes – Report

Road crashes claim 55,015 lives in 10 years – Report

Allied Air Plane Crashed While On CBN Duty – NSIB

NSIB recommends inspection of Allied Aircraft for mechanical, structural faults

How to report loan apps harassment, by FCCPC

NARD beg FG to pay CONMESS consequential adjustment, others

Resident doctors protest, demand probe into Lokoja teaching hospital

NUC approves 10 new programmes for Ondo varsity

Graduate threatens su***de as Nasarawa varsity swaps JAMB reg number

NANS dismisses ‘baseless’ allegations against UNN registrar

Don’t become undertaker of telecom sector – Telcos warn NLC

FG to empower 500,000 rice farmers – AFAN

Oando revenue hits N4.1tn

Retailers now lifting fuel from P’Harcourt, Warri refineries — PETROAN

IPMAN threatens strike over customs’ seizure of petrol products

Niger Delta Youth Congress condemns Amaechi’s call for violence

Biodun Fatoyinbo, wife renew vows on 25th anniversary

Fuss about tithes down to distrust, lack of transparency – Abioye

I don’t entirely own my film cinema earnings – Funke Akindele

2027: Don’t allow PDP return to power, APC begs Nigerians

Party secretary: Wike’s allies vow to resist PDP governors’ choice

I came prepared to govern Nasarawa – Sule

Makinde celebrates Fresh FM chairman Ayefele at 57

Borno gov donates N30m to family of slain officer

Kano govt earmarks N2.5b for mass weddings

Oyo converts 1,591 council ad-hoc workers to permanent staff

Alleged abduction: Bauchi commissioner admits custody of child

1,100 Kogi flood victims receive relief items from EU, Red Cross

Kogi CP directs full compliance of third party insurance

Over 3,000 Kaduna pilgrims receive 2023 Hajj refunds

Lagos rescues nine-year-old from alleged s3xual assault

Tragedy inspired upgrade of Maku Police station to Area Command – Oyo CP, ALGON Chair

Osun ruling house protests appointment of new Owa Obokun

A’Ibom communities accuse Indian company of blocking waterways

Terrorists kill Plateau couples

Niger farmer nabbed for defiling six-year-old girl

Family of national flag designer thanks FG for fulfilling promise

02/02/2025



* On this day in 1990, the South African Apartheid system of racial segregation began to disintegrate. President de Klerk announced the unbanning of the African Nation Congress (ANC) and his intentions to release Nelson Mandela.

* On this day in 1852, the first public flushing toilet was opened in London. Using the “Public Waiting Room” at 95 Fleet Street cost 2 pence.

02/02/2025

If you smile when no one else is around, you really mean it. – Andy Rooney

01/02/2025

SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, SATURDAY 01/02/2025

Police begin enforcement of Third Party insurance today

NYSC DG announces N77,000 as new corps member allowance

PSC retires police officers as SANs debate IG’s tenure extension

Nigeria-made HIV/AIDS drugs ready in 2025 – NACA

NCDC reports 214 Lassa fever, 39 deaths in 2025

FG cash transfer beneficiaries hit 32m, says W’Bank

Dangote May Review Fuel Price as Offtakers Recount Losses

Imo police launch manhunt as gunmen abduct Abia electoral chair

Magistrates demand action as Borno judge’s wife spends eight months in captivity

How I impregnated a lady in University – Bobrisky

US-based Nigerians go into hiding amid Trump’s deportation crackdown

JP Morgan in Nigeria to explore investment opportunities

U.S. aid pause: FG seeks local solutions for HIV/AIDS control

President observes Jumaat prayer with Tijjaniya Muslim Brotherhood leaders

Tinubu appoints Abba Aliyu as REA boss

N’Assembly to review death penalty law, says deputy speaker

Tribunal begins sitting in Ondo over petition against Aiyedatiwa’s victory

EFCC arraigns 13 Chinese for impersonation, attempt to destabilise Nigeria

Kidnap Kingpin Evans Scored As In NECO, Now A 200-Level Student – Lawyer

A/Court Ruling On IPOB Will Motivate Us To Crush Them – Military

Troops kill 358 terrorists, arrest 431 criminals in January

Military launches construction of Invictus Centre for wounded soldiers

PSC orders retirement of police officers over 60 years

NDLEA nabs 18 suspected drug dealers in Kano

Matawalle slams Amaechi over claim politicians kill for power

Enugu-Onitsha road: Minister threatens MTN with contract termination

Strike: Railway union, NRC MD reach truce

Lilypond command facilitated 30,979 export containers in 2024 – Customs

JAMB extends suspension of admission into law programme to Fountain University

NAICOM issues fresh annuity rules to insurance firms

NCAA revokes licences of two air operators

Solid minerals, agriculture drove non-oil export by 20.79% in 2024 – NEPC

Auctioneers deny wrongdoing as EFCC probes online sales of forfeited vehicles

Premier Hotel redevelopment to gulp N20bn – Odu’a group chair

MURIC Urges IGP To Prevent Violence Against South West Muslims

Ned Nwoko dumps PDP for APC

Alleged N50m bribery: PRP challenges ex-VP to provide proof

PDP govs back Ude-Okoye as National Secretary, demand NEC March 13

Tinubu fighting opposition not corruption — Atiku

Gunshots as Fubara, Wike supporters clash at PDP Secretariat

We’ll build five energy hubs for improved power supply — Sanwo-Olu

Zamfara lawmakers demand reinstatement of sacked minority leader

Ogun promotes 26,764 civil servants

Lagos warns against prank calls to fire service

Bayelsa CP risks imprisonment for ignoring court order

Kano police nab three as Chadian terrorist escape

Hoodlums: Lagos Taskforce arrests 30 suspects at Ketu-Alapere, Oshodi

Police rescue six-month-old baby from kidnappers in FCT

Suspects arrested as 21 children rescued from traffickers in Yobe

Delta mob sets man ablaze for beheading woman

I contemplated su***de after Lagos thugs gang-raped me – 22-year-old student

Drunk Lagos driver kills Army officer, 18 others lose arms, legs

01/02/2025



* In 1414, the Kenyan city of Malindi sent ambassadors to China carrying a gift that created a sensation at the Imperial Court. The gift was a giraffe.

* If you open your eyes in a pitch-black room, the colour you’ll see is called ‘eigengrau’. ‘Eigengrau’ is German for ‘intrinsic grey’, also known as dark light, or brain grey.

01/02/2025


* On this day in 1960, four black students started the Greensboro sit-ins. Their refusal to leave a “whites only” lunch counter was a milestone in the fight against racial segregation in the United States.

31/01/2025

SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, FRIDAY 31/01/2025

FG unveils $23bn programme to tackle power crisis

NLC proposes 5% telecoms tariff hike, insists on protest

NNPCL, partners launch 97mmscf/d five mini-LNG plants in Ajaokuta

Appeal Court affirms IPOB’s proscription

Explosions: Tankers owners must install anti-spill locks now, says Federal Fire boss

FG presents family of Nigerian flag designer N30m

Ondo nurses begin indefinite strike action

Singer Tems cancels Rwanda show over M23 support

Naira rises to N1,493/$ in official market

67 dead as plane, helicopter collide midair in US

S’Africa, Rwanda clash over DR Congo conflict

EU grants Eurocham €300,000 for advocacy in Nigeria

5,000 Repentant Boko Haram Fighters Reunited With Families –FG

Tinubu mourns victims of Washington D.C. air accident

Tinubu lauds accomplishments of Diaspora Nigerians

Nigerian women key to Africa’s projected $29tn economy by 2050 – Shettima

Banks comply with court ruling lifting ex parte Mareva order against GHL

Egbetokun not illegal IGP – AGF Fagbemi

Cybercrime: Sowore gets N10m bail, joins must go protest

Edo: INEC tenders BVAS from 133 polling units

I have repented, kidnap kingpin Evans tells court

Kaduna train attack: I paid N80m ransom for my mum, sister’s release – Witness

Customs seizes 199,495 litres of smuggled petrol in Adamawa, Taraba

Domestic shortfall: NNPC, marketers import 633m litres of fuel

FG launches space technology initiative to generate $50bn annually

FG may block MDAs’ capital funds over cash policy breach

CBN policies prevented 42.81% inflation in 2024 – Cardoso

NIS intercepts 21 minors at Niger border in Yobe

FG eyes 150 CNG stations in 2025

FG commends Akwa Ibom for implementation of water, sanitation projects

NCC blames low revenue for inability to sell 5G spectrum licences

NEDC deploys 30 mobile labs in schools, awards scholarships

MDCAN decries delayed 50% electricity subsidy for hospitals, varsities

ARGPON begins regulation of local gin production

BUA Foods suffers N188.7bn FX loss

Caverton records N50.53bn loss in 2024

N23m for Rainoil National Tennis Open winners

Buhari not pleased Osinbajo contested Presidency against Tinubu – Akande

El-Rufai: I’d Still Criticise APC If I Were In Tinubu’s Govt

PDP crisis: Stakeholders demand Wike, Bauchi gov truce as governors meet today

Poverty has made me remain in politics since 1987, says Amaechi

Atiku absent as PDP North East leaders seek reconciliation, unity ahead 2027

Obi tackles Akande, says narrative, attempt to rewrite history

Miners Have Guns, Explosives – Niger Gov

Kano gov offers automatic employment to visually impaired graduate

Bauchi Speaker berates Dogara over attack on gov

Lagos Assembly insists Obasa’s removal legal as DSS grills lawmakers

Kaduna govt releases N548m to NUT, resolves long-standing dispute

JUSUN ends three-month strike in Abia

One killed, 3,000-hectare Shonga rice farm submerged in Kwara

HYPREP awards 300 Ogoni indigenes postgraduate scholarships

Herdsmen kill five labourers on Ondo farm

Kaduna monarch slumps, dies at occasion

LASTMA impounds 173 vehicles for illegal parking

Vandal electrocuted stealing Abuja power facilities

STEM competition winner gets N15m scholarship

31/01/2025



* A quarter of your bones are in your feet. Adults have 52 bones in their feet (26 in each foot). Each foot also has 33 joints and over 100 muscles, ligaments, and tendons.

* Liberia was founded by freed American slaves in 1847 and is Africa’s oldest republic.

31/01/2025


* On this day in 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed. The Amendment, which officially abolished slavery, was adopted on December 6, 1865.

31/01/2025

Avoid running at all times. – Satchel Paige

30/01/2025

President Bola Tinubu has expressed sadness over the death of at least 18 persons in an air accident in Washington DC, United States.

30/01/2025

SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, THURSDAY 30/01/2025

Tariff hike: Labour plans telecoms boycott, February 4 protest

Max Air slammed with 3-month suspension after Kano incident

APC expels Aregbesola over alleged anti-party activities

PDP govs plan summit as leaders exchange blows at BoT meeting

Fasoranti remains Afenifere’s only leader – Organising secretary

PETROAN seals PMS distribution deal with Dangote refinery

Naira rises to N1,630/$ in parallel market

Napoli reject Galatasaray’s €65m Osimhen bid

UN welcomes US aid exemption for HIV treatment

Deportation: Trump administration revokes protected status for Venezuelans

ECOWAS Formalises Exit Of Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger But Grants Citizens Free Movement

UK appoints British-Nigerian as trade envoy to Nigeria

FG ready to welcome deported Nigerians from US — NiDCOM

FG secures $1.1bn AfDB loan to power 5m people by 2026 — Tinubu

Tinubu calls for multi-pronged approach to security in Lake Chad region

Reps deny demanding bribes to approve varsities’ budgets

Reps seek probe into death of two EFCC operatives

Reps panel to probes severance package for political appointees

Sowore pleads not guilty to cybercrime charges

Alleged N110.4b fraud: Prosecution calls first witness in Yahaya Bello, others’ trial

NATCOMS accuses NCC of betraying subscribers, heads to court

BIPC sues NDIC, another over sale of shares, demands N4.7bn compensation

Yahaya Bello: How EFCC recovered N550m, estate developer tells court

EFCC, bidders disagree over car auction

EFCC arrests ex-NHIS boss over alleged N8.7bn fraud

CAS: no retreat, no surrender until Nigeria is safe for all

Navy uncovers abandoned Ogun oil well

S’South govs elect Diri as forum chair, back FG tax reforms

CBN clears outstanding $7bn FX backlog

JAMB suspends law admission in KWASU, Redeemers varsity, six others

FG pledges completion of Eleme section of East-West road December

Nigeria, major hub for human trafficking in Africa – Minister

Nigeria’s electronic transactions hit record N1.08qd in 2024, up 79%

FG unveils policy framework to attract foreign investors

NNPCL targets 6,000 Nigerians for sight restoration in Q1

NPA pledges to drive export growth for NLNG

Student pilot hospitalised after aircraft skids off runway in Kaduna

Excitement as UNITAR appoints Rivers varsity first CIFAL capacity training centre

Oluremi Tinubu distributes 10,000 kits to Kwara midwives

NLC threatens action against N70,000 wage defaulters

Gani Adams fumes as Sultan backs Sharia courts in S’West

NNPC, BUA to build mini gas plants in Kogi

Dangote-backed investors to acquire Kenyan coffee chain, Java House

Unilever posts N4.9bn profit

Nigerdock records 17m man-hours without loss time injury

Injunctive orders against Obaigbena, GHL, others stay – FBN counsel

Expulsion: NNPP woos Aregbesola, APC disowns Oyetola’s posters

PDP govs visit Makinde in Ibadan over brother’s death

Plateau gov sacks five commissioners

Tribunal relocation to Abuja highlights PDP’s weak case – Edo

Bauchi slams Tuggar, for criticising gov

Kogi Govt bans daily revenue collection by NURTW unions

Lagos launches ₦500m farmers’ subsidy for food security

Suspended Edo FEWMA boss denies involvement in unauthorised turbaning

Lagos begins e-registration, payment for 2025 UBE

Orile-Ilawo Stool: Ogun monarch rejects court ruling, heads to Appeal court

Many feared trapped as two-storey building collapses in Anambra

Bandits kidnap 4-year-old son of Katsina council chairman, kill security aide

Gunmen kill policeman, attack Katsina LG boss

Man arrested for sexually abusing 15-year-old Ekiti schoolgirl

Man, lover arrested for allegedly selling child for ₦450,000 in Akwa Ibom

30/01/2025


* Nepal is the only country that does not have a rectangular flag.

* A blob of toothpaste is called a nurdle

30/01/2025

There is nothing worse than doing the wrong thing well. – Peter Drucker

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