Daily Shot, 19/09/2025

Nigeria ready, willing to host Commonwealth Games — Tinubu

Emergency rule: Uncertainty in Rivers as Fubara delays return

Rivers Assembly to Fubara: forward list of commissioner-nominees for screening

Fire service plans nationwide safety audit of buildings

Insecurity: Again, NEC shuns deliberations on State Police

FG ends passport production at multiple centres after 62 years

Marketers want refinery to increase pump price by N75 before buying from gantry – Dangote

Lagos NURTW official arrested for beating dispatch rider to death

McLaughlin-Levrone breaks 40-year record to win 400m title

Joshua to fight in Nigeria in 2026

Trump, UK PM split on Palestine, energy, and migration

Trump, China’s Xi to meet Friday on finalising TikTok ownership deal

Nigerian student bags distinctions in Ireland

$1.6m fraud: US to deport Nigerian after six years’ jail


DID YOU KNOW?

  • The Wikki Warm Spring, located within Yankari Game Reserve in Bauchi State, maintains a constant temperature of approximately 31°C year-round. The Spring is often described as a natural spa due to its warm, crystal-clear waters and serene environment.
  • The Buddha commonly depicted in statues and pictures is a different person entirely. The historical Buddha, Siddhartha Gautama, was indeed extremely skinny during his six years of extreme asceticism, when he practiced severe fasting and self-deprivation.

Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu mourn victims of Afriland building fire

Tinubu visits Kaduna Friday for wedding, courtesy call on Buhari family

2025 Budget: Senate, House seek withdrawal of contract circulars

Reps panel vows to unearth causes of killings in Plateau

Court stops Saturday’s councilorship by-election in Edo

Over 400 senior police officers undergo promotion examination in Abuja

FG gives mining firms December 31 deadline for community agreements

FG begins nationwide sensitisation on whistleblowing policy

Cardoso cautions against Naira spray, hawking, mutilation

You’ll Now Get Passports 7 Days After Application, FG Tells Nigerians

NIS raises daily passport production from 300 to 5,000

FG pledges partnership with A’Ibom to develop independent electricity markets

FG may issue N758bn pension bond – PenCom

FG unveils pension-backed loans to empower retirees

BOI To Access $20 Million For Climate Adaptation Projects

FG sets 2030 target for 95% digital literacy – NITDA

FCT CP meets MACBAN leaders over roaming cattle

We are addressing striking Doctors’ grievances – Wike

Wike knocks Sowore for calling President ‘criminal’

First Lady gifts 500 women in Enugu N50,000 each

NLC demands probe into Afriland, Lagos market infernos

Farmers urged to limit antibiotics in livestock production

Anglican Church expands nationwide with 15 new dioceses

Ohanaeze rallies Igbo for voter registration, seeks Kanu’s release

Manufacturing import bill widens N14tn trade deficit

UBA posts N335bn profit after tax in H1

Kenya Airways pays NCAA fine over passenger mistreatment

Sterling Bank names first beneficiaries of N2bn scholarship

Ibas bids Rivers goodbye in statewide broadcast 

Gov. Mbah: Enugu to generate 1,000MW from coal

Mutfwang pledges justice for 11,749 Plateau massacre victims

Aiyedatiwa hails S/ Court judgment, pledges accelerated development in Ondo

Okpebholo seeks FG’s intervention in Edo-Delta boundary dispute

Sani pledges to execute projects without borrowing

Rivers Assembly probes emergency rule expenditure

Kwara Assembly mulls tougher action against illegal charcoal production

Sanwo-Olu’s wife unveils measles vaccination campaign

Ogun confirms halting Daniel’s constituency road project

Ogun seals five Chinese companies for assaulting enforcement officers

Climate change: Bauchi directs schools, contractors to plant trees

Ondo man to face trial for sexually abusing niece

Drama as police arrest Anambra ‘madman’ cultivating marijuana farm

Oyo ‘cleric’ nabbed with human flesh in police custody

Gunmen kill fresh graduate in Edo barber’s shop

1,666 Lagosians died from suicide, homicide in five years – Police


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 2010, Oil rig Deepwater Horizon is declared sealed after a 5-month long spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Thought to be one of the biggest accidents in the oil and gas industry, the spill began on April 20, 2010, when an explosion destroyed the BP=owned rig and killed 11 people.

The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you. – Neil deGrasse Tyson

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