Daily Shot, 01/09/2025

Alleged Blasphemy: Woman Burnt Alive In Niger

Petrol consumption down 28%; pump hands idle at stations

APC sweeps Rivers elections, wins 20 of 23 LGAs

Ex-IG Arase Dies In Abuja

NAFDAC warns public over falsified Gold Vision Oxytocin injection

69 Days After Launch: Farmers Await FG’s Tractors

Presidency slams Daily Trust for ‘falsehoods, division,’ urges Nigerians to shun paper

ALGON defends street renaming by LGs

Anioma State will correct historical imbalance, says Nwoko

Dangote Group evacuates remains of Phyna’s late sister

Asake conducts ceremonial coin toss as guest of honour in MLS match

Switzerland backs Nigeria’s bid for IMO Category ‘C’ Seat

Nigeria reaffirms ties with Trinidad and Tobago

US arrests another Nigerian convict facing 20-year jail for rape


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Frederick Douglass was the most photographed man of the 19th Century. He wanted to ensure an accurate depiction of Black Americans during the Civil War.
  • If you keep smelling something that is not really there, you may be experiencing the earliest symptoms of schizophrenia.

Tinubu, Okiro, others mourn as ex-IGP, Solomon Arase, dies at 69

President Tinubu mourns pioneer Nsukka Diocese Bishop Okobo

Nigeria, Colombia open new diplomatic chapter as Shettima hosts Márquez in Abuja

Reps dismiss report of imminent showdown, back Speaker Abbas

Insecurity: Ndume cries over fresh Boko Haram Killings in Borno communities

Ogun ordered to reinstate sacked whistleblower, pay N5m damages

Three men to face trial for defiling minors in Anambra

Over 1,200 deaths on Nigeria’s inland waters raise security concerns

NAF strengthens ties with China on weapons supply

Arase’s death a sad one – IGP Egbetokun

Infractions: FG threatens to disconnect Gencos from power grid

FG decries workers’ inability to access housing loans

Bosun Tijani pushes digital training for 438 civil servants with Korean experts

N’West leads in FEC projects with N5.97tn – FG

FG unveils revised curricula for primary, secondary, technical schools

FG, NLC end pension fund dispute

PenCom warns PFAs against inducing RSA holders

NiMet forecasts three-day thunderstorms, rain nationwide from Monday

MSMEs N75b: Fed Govt disburses N16.1 billion to 22 manufacturers

FG banks on AI to power $1tn economy target

NCDMB boosts indigenous companies with $350m intervention funds 

Deplorable federal road turns Delta community into kidnap hotspot

NRC MD Opeifa apologises to media over verbal assault on NTA journalist

Wike’s bountiful harvests of Projects, testaments of Tinubu’s good governance – Okotie-Eboh

Ondo promises salary payment as AAUA lecturers begin strike

Offa Poly unveils indigenous electric vehicle

NAAPE raises alarm over poaching of pilots, engineers

NUT disowns violent political gathering at its Kaduna facility

Passport fee hike violates human rights, SERAP tells FG

$4.4m fraud: HEDA demands dethronement of convicted Osun monarch

Northern group criticises Lagos over Alaba Rago Market demolition

Kumuyi relaxes Deeper Life marriage rules, reviews six-month courtship

Extend free medical service to all pregnant women – Falana

Union Bank completes merger with Titan Trust Bank

FG paying bandits, El-Rufai alleges

2027 Presidency: I Have Done The Maths, Tinubu Won’t Make Top 2 – El-Rufai

Rivers LG poll a rascality taken too far – Peter Obi

2027: Keyamo warns PDP against fielding Jonathan, Obi

Female Ekiti gov aspirant unveils agenda for transformation

Aiyedatiwa presents staff of office to Ondo monarch

60,000 farmers to get free fertilisers, inputs in Enugu

Lagos police ban street procession by Egungun

Suspect arrested for beheading man over Ebonyi land dispute

Ondo octogenarian, 99 others in police net for criminal activities

Mob lynches woman over alleged blasphemous utterance in Niger

Niger mob burnt woman to death before reinforcement – Police


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 2002, Barnabas Igwe, president of the Nigerian Bar Association in Anambra State, and his wife were brutally killed by a group of people armed with machetes. Igwe had publicly expressed his opposition to the existence of the Bakassi Boys and had openly criticised the performance of the governor of the state on a number of occasions.
  • On this day in 1914, Martha, the last Passenger Pigeon known to man, died at the Cincinnati Zoo, Cincinnati, Ohio effectively making Passenger Pigeons extinct.

Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there. – Bo Jackson

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Compiled by Joe Agbro Jr., (@Joeagbro), Joeagbro@dailyshot.ng, +234-8056745268

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