Daily Shot, 05/09/2025

Opposition mounts against FG’s 5% tax on petrol, diesel

Opposition fumes as Tinubu makes 15th foreign trip in 2025

Military insists on 15-year exit rule despite court order

Outcry as Niger orders preachers to obtain licence

Panic as five bodies found along Lagos riverbank

Niger boat crash death toll hits 30

Ex-Soldiers Resume Protest Over Unpaid Entitlements

Police seal ADC office, invite El-Rufai, others for questioning

Daniel Levy makes shock decision to quit as Spurs chairman

Trump signs order cutting US tariffs on Japanese autos to 15%

Ghana land dispute clashes kill 31, displace 48,000

15 dead as Congo confirms new Ebola outbreak

Nigeria, China deepen cooperation in marine sector

Nigerian customs officer completes epic bike ride to Belgium


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Nike started as Blue Ribbon Sports in 1964 and officially changed its name to Nike, Inc. in 1971. The company was co-founded by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman, initially as a distributor for the Japanese running shoe brand Onitsuka Tiger.
  • The original practice of the pinky promise, known as yubikiri in Japan, implied that the promise-breaker would literally have their pinky finger cut off or a similar severe punishment.

Tinubu begins 10-day vacation, departs Abuja for Europe

Tinubu meets Ibas ahead end to Rivers emergency rule

EFCC arraigns fake investor over $71,000 fraud

Osun ALGON challenges CBN over LG account signatories

Troops kill 13 Boko Haram terrorists in Borno failed ambush

Army storms terror hotspots, recovers 158 cattle, forces ISWAP surrender

Police nab suspected kidnapper of 100-year-old man in Taraba

FG seeks fresh $1.75bn World Bank loan

FG revoked 4,709 licences to sanitise mining sector — Official

CBT: WAEC mandates 250 computers, CCTV for participating schools

New parties seeking INEC registration surge to 171

INEC confirms 2.8m registered voters for Anambra poll

FG allocates ₦1.85bn to educate, rehabilitate Chibok schoolgirls

Only 704,801 electricity consumers metered in S’East — NERC

Inordinate financial gains driving fake news – NPC

NOA begins nationwide showcase of govt programmes

RMRDC unveils plans to support shea sector growth

Dangote secured N11bn crude oil in July – NNPC

NAFDAC seals illegal chemical, water firm in Abuja

FG predicts five-day downpour, flooding in 14 states

FG didn’t give directive for CNG pump price increase – P-CNGI

Ondo, FG to distribute 3.6m mosquito nets to households

NHIA lauds Tinubu’s compulsory health insurance for civil servants

‘Miracle money’ gospel undermining Nigeria’s development, says Osinbajo

Nigerian politics full of liars, betrayers, says Jonathan 

Afenifere, northern leaders demand state police amid delays

Muslim group tackles Tinubu over detained Palestinian

Marketers press NNPC to pay N25bn equalisation funds, others

Fidson, Japanese firm partner on drug production

Boeing seeks new workers to replace striking union staff in U.S

PDP, Okpebholo clash over foreign trips, N4.2bn SUVs

N’Central APC Chairmen back Tinubu’s reforms

Marafa politically irrelevant, can’t stop Tinubu – Zamfara APC

Gov Adeleke appeals to security agencies to maintain neutrality in politics

Lagos deputy speaker gives scholarship, palliatives to constituents

Kaduna Assembly to prioritize programme based budgeting in 2026 fiscal year

Plateau issues one-year notice for LG poll

Kwara approves scholarships for Law School students, others

We expanded 10 dams to boost farming, reduce rice importation – Jigawa gov’s aide

Ekiti approves N12bn for road, housing projects

Kano advertising agency set target to generate N5bn by end of 2027

Kwara deploys biogas machines to curb pollution

Sokoto youths mobilise for self-defence over rising bandit attacks

Ile-Ife to host world leaders, monarchs, as Ooni marks 10th anniversary

Villagers decry gunmen’s funeral levy in Anambra, Imo

Oyo gateman arrested for raping four-year-old pupil


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1972, some Palestinian militants stormed the apartment Israeli athletes were staying at the Olympic Village in Munich, Germany. They killed 2 athletes and took 9 hostages, demanding the release of over 230 Arab prisoners being held in Israel. The ensuing violence to release the hostages ended with the death of all 9 hostages and 5 militants.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change. – Michael Jackson

Good morning

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