Daily Shot, 28/08/2025

Strike threat: ASUU, VCs decry Profs’ N525,000 monthly pay

FG, ASUU meet today; Alausa leads push to resolve issues

None Of Our Agreements With Govt Has Been Enforced – ASUU President

African defence chiefs unite against terrorism, cyber threats, others

Nigerians spent N1.3tn on petrol in June — NMDPRA

Explosion at TCN station triggers blackout in Anambra, Enugu

Uzodimma approves N104, 000 as new minimum wage

34th anniversary: Anambra, Osun, Edo, Kebbi highlight achievements

16 kidnap victims rescued along Benin-Lagos Road

ACF laments Alaba Rago Market demolition by Lagos

China donates $1m to support Nigeria’s flood relief efforts


DID YOU KNOW?

  • So far, two infectious diseases – smallpox and rinderpest – have successfully been eradicated. The last case of smallpox was in 1977, and the last of rinderpest was in 2001.
  • ‘Schnapsidee’ is a German word that refers to a ridiculous or foolish idea that seems brilliant in the moment but is often born from a drunken state.

Tinubu targets 7m youths for digital literacy in 2 years

Youths’ energy, creativity are Nigeria’s greatest assets – Tinubu

Reps committee seeks media support to revitalise Baro Port

Court adjourns IG’s public incitement case against Sowore

Jailed monarch: Osun to obtain US court judgment

Tax authority sues Dino Melaye for alleged default

Army, DSS neutralise 50 bandits in Niger, rescue victims

Terrorism: DSS asks court to admit evidence against 3 alleged spies

Navy arrested 333 vessels in six years – Official

NDLEA seizes 589.536kg drugs in Adamawa

FG shuts down illegal gold mining site in Gwagwalada

FG gets $11m vaccine storage equipment

Tinubu’s Brazil visit a strategic game changer for Africa – Information minister

No safe water, no sustainable development – Minister

Over 50 expired oil licences remain revoked – FG

FG secures $40million funding for digital innovative hub from JICA

Correctional Service denies collecting 350,000 naira fees from trainees

Taxes: FG nets N393bn from Dangote, nine others

We are not recruiting new staff – NECO

Fed Govt set up committee to probe Abuja-Kaduna train derailment

Flooding: Yobe relocates victims as Ondo, Sokoto urge caution

FG engages insurers to review $1.5bn war risk premiums

2026 Hajj: Visa Violators Risk N8.15m Fine, Imprisonment

UNICROSS demands end to TETfund’s misuse

NLC to Pencom: We must hold govt to account on management of workers fund

Jonathan demands credible INEC chair selection, decries defections

FG has subjected Niger Delta to ‘ecological genocide’ – INC President

Insecurity: Gani Adams recommends Amotekun model for Kwara, Kogi

Ogoni indigenes get 500 HYPREP postgraduate scholarships

Access Bank CEO Roosevelt Ogbonna resigns from holdings’ board

Coronation unveils Nigeria’s largest Series I fund

Consolidated Hallmark reports 404% profit growth

Air Peace to build aircraft maintenance facility in Lagos

Capital markets to drive Nigeria–Brazil trade ties, says NGX

Nestlé empowers 250 Bauchi food vendors

Kenyon recovers 6,000 barrels daily from stranded well

2027: FCT PDP endorses Olawepo-Hashim

Tinubu directed me to work with Ganduje for APC’s progress – Yilwatda

NNPP writes INEC, demands stoppage of elections

2027: I’m Not Contesting For Any Position – El-Rufai

Kogi ex-political office holders beg Ododo for N2.7bn arrears

‘Stomach Infrastructure’ means providing basic needs, not handouts – Soludo 

Oba market to be completed in 2026, says Okpebholo

Otu vows takeover of disputed land

Edo Assembly clears Okpebholo’s four commissioner-designates

Flooding: Ondo warns against indiscriminate dumping of refuse

Akwa Ibom to unveil ARISE Resort December

LASG engages ministries over Green Line Rail project

Edo pushes NIN registration for free health care

Kano probes abattoir sale under Ganduje

3,000 Lagos pupils benefit from back-to-school outreach

Delta to host Igbo conference on identity crisis

100 Ondo women trained in modern fish farming

Tragedy in Zaria: Mother, three children die in building collapse

Body of Lagos photographer recovered after vehicle plunges into lagoon


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1963, Martin Luther King made his “I Have a Dream” speech, a call to end racism in the United States, in front of the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington, a political rally organised by human and political rights groups. Over 200,000 people gathered in Washington DC to demand jobs and equality for African-Americans.

Reflection in the mirror makes reality look at you. – Mario

Good morning

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

One thought on “Daily Shot, 28/08/2025

  1. Nigeria is nothing to talk about in terms of security, lights, feedings, good leadership and good lifestyle. One can not bost of three square meals a day, every body is now a begger including me

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