Daily Shot, 21/08/2025

Eight sacked Anambra operatives to face trial for assaulting corper

Katsina mosque terror attack death toll hits 32

Mother, son, two others killed in fresh Benue attack

Recapitalisation: Banks to attract extra N900bn capital in 2025

Sokoto boat mishap: NEMA concludes rescue operations, over 20 persons still missing

FRSC rewards Osun officer for rejecting bribes 104 times in July

Katsina Govt withholds 100 teachers’ salaries for absenteeism

2025 Afrobasket: D’Tigers lose semifinal ticket to Senegal

Google, Microsoft, TikTok block 13.5m accounts in Nigeria

Israel has work to do to win over Gen Z – Netanyahu 

TICAD9: Japanese PM pledges $5.5bn support for Nigeria, others

Irregular migration: 7000 Nigerians stranded in Libya, says NIDCOM

20 trafficked Ghanaians found in A’Ibom home

Nigeria Consul-General in Cameroon Coker dies


DID YOU KNOW?

  • There are computers specially designed without internet, video, or music capabilities, just for the Amish.
  • Cherophobia is the irrational fear of fun or happiness.

Tinubu: Our mission at TICAD9 is to unlock $1bn trade, investment

Niger Delta central to Nigeria’s energy future, says Tinubu

Tinubu: Nigeria will defeat terrorism by tackling its root causes

Shettima leads Fed Govt delegation on condolence visit to Kogi governor

Court convicts 8 internet fraudsters in Lagos

36 suspected fraudsters arrested in Rivers

Hajj fraud: Six NAHCON officials held, two released after refund

Insecurity: IGP approves 2 new Area Commands, 5 new Divisions in Benue

NGF, NCC agree on mutual efforts to boost digital economy

FG to earn $200bn revenue from Lekki Port – Oyetola

TICAD9: Nigeria focusing on engagement not exhibition, says FG

Labour ministers rally financial support for completion of NDE headquarters

NAMA launches historic audit of Nigeria’s airspace

FG denies excluding northwest in kidney dialysis subsidy

PSC declines promotion of 176 ASPs, elevates 952 to DSP

11 Discos owe Federation Account N2.6 trn

FG trains 100,000 youths in financial literacy

FG inaugurates 80-bed hospital in Delta

Nigeria produced 1.37TCF of gas in H1 — NUPRC

Fed Govt launches empowerment initiative to drive job creation for youths

NNPC refineries will work, Ojulari counters Dangote, others

FG warns project coordinators to ‘deliver value’ with borrowed funds

Tinubu will provide potable water for FCT area councils by 2027 – Wike

FCT Commissioner of Police tasks journalists on fight against illegal mining

897 kidney patients benefit from FG’s subsidised dialysis – ATBUTH

NANS passes no-confidence vote on WAEC boss, declares protest for removal

Students protest increment in private hostels’ fees at UNILAG

Mohbad: Naira Marley ‘wrongly accused’, deserves apology – Bashir Ahmad

2Baba, Wizkid, Flavour lead Billboard Afrobeats top songs of all time

Buhari was angel in human flesh – Bisi Akande

MURIC backs traditionalists’ call to declare Isese national holiday

MainPower petitions EERC, rejects tariff reduction

PFAs channel 62% of workers’ pensions into govt bonds

Seplat Energy trains journalists in Lagos

Assault of corps member: Moghalu seeks disbandment of security outfit

PDP, NNPP, ADC condemn proposed pay rise for politicians amid economic hardship

2027 showdown: Wike-Makinde rift threatens high-stakes PDP convention

Assault on corps member: Soludo sacks vigilante operatives

NBA report: Adeleke demands FG unblock Osun’s allocation

How Igbo trader trafficked 14 Adamawa children to Anambra – Fintiri

Olubadan coronation for Sept 26 as Makinde visits Ladoja

Edo Assembly clears Okpebholo’s eight commissioner-nominees

Nasarawa Assembly raises alarm over rising kidnapping cases

Oyo speaker congratulates Oba Ladoja, says Olubadan succession process unique

Cross River Speaker pledges support for female commercial drivers

Delta, REA sign MoU to tackle blackout

Kano to grant amnesty to repentant thugs

Gombe criticises FG’s N1.4bn payment for repentant B’Haram camp

Enugu residents suffer blackout amid tariff row

Kebbi farmers seek govt help as floods overrun rice fields

Ogun sawmillers protest forest reserve destruction by illegal cocoa farmers

Imo police, security forces dislodge IPOB/ESN hideouts, recover arms

Police seize hard drugs in Ondo, target unmarked vehicles

Two arrested for killing five-year-old Enugu boy

Lagos skit maker hacked to death by suspected cultists

Three die as concrete mixer rams into shop in Ebonyi


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1933, the Nigeria Football Association, which later became the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), was formed. The initial meeting to establish the association took place at 7 pm on that day at 42 Broad Street, Lagos
  • On this day in 1986, a limnic eruption in Lake Nyos in Cameroon killed about 1700 people. A high amount of carbon dioxide was released by the underwater volcanic eruption.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way. – Dale Carnegie

Good morning

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