SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 06/03/2025

Nigeria ranks sixth in global terrorism index, 565 killed in 2024

Tariff hike ‘pushed’ power generation to historic 6,003MW – FG

Lassa fever: Nigeria records 95 deaths, 509 cases from 12 states

Amaewhule’s assembly sacks Rivers commissioners, political appointees

Two rapists sentenced to castration, death by hanging in Kaduna

Coronation: Alaafin-designate returns from Canada, arrives Oyo today

88th birthday: In my lifetime, Nigeria’ll be great — Obasanjo

Naira appreciates to N1,512/$ in parallel market

World’s most accurate clock goes on sale for $3.3m

WHO says ‘millions of lives’ at stake after US funding cuts to TB programmes

Pope’s condition stable, remains complex – Vatican

Supreme Court rejects Trump’s bid to halt $2bn aid

US holds direct talks with Hamas

Nigeria joins European development bank as 77th shareholder

South African police arrest Nigerian man for smuggling cocaine


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Samsung’s various business activities account for more than 15% of South Korea’s entire economy. Aside from being the world’s largest manufacturer of phones, in South Korea, there are hospitals, apartments, universities, and even funeral parlors owned by Samsung.
  • Bill and Melinda Gates have given away more than $45 billion since 1994.

Tinubu mandates ministers to hold quarterly public briefings

Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu laud FirstBank on new headquarters takeoff

Obasanjo influential at home, recognised globally, says Tinubu

Akpabio: I Never Harassed Natasha, My Mother Raised Me Well

Sexual harassment: Senate dismisses Natasha’s petition, Kogi senator shuns panel

Senate moves to ensure processing of raw materials before export

Nigeria can earn $2.5billion annually from trades with Morocco – Abbas

Reps move to abolish BSc/HND dichotomy

Reps committee summons NDDC MD over abandoned shoreline protection project

FCCPC sues MultiChoice for ignoring price hike suspension order

Kaduna court orders forfeiture of N1.37bn allegedly diverted under El-Rufai

Gospel singer, Mercy Chinwo sues VeryDarkMan over alleged defamation

Alleged N400m fraud: IG amends charge filed against Andy Uba, Etu

Rivers Govt donates helicopter to NAF 

Troops kill B’Haram chief bomb maker, eight others in Sambisa

NAFDAC arrests man for producing fake alcohol in Port Harcourt

Customs seizes 29,825 litres of petrol in Adamawa, Taraba

Smugglers now establish storage facilities at borders –CGC

FEC approves N679b for 13 road projects

FEC approves ₦10.3bn for diabetes kits, HIV drugs, hospital equipment

We will make correctional centres less congested – Tunji-Ojo

NADDC targets 40,000 jobs with vehicle regulation

NDDC celebrates Ogbuku for SUN public service award

Wike in Italy for talks with Lombardy Region’s President, agribusiness investors

Rivers varsity VC bows out, lauds Fubara for support

FUOYE students, group defend VC amid sexual harassment allegation

Funtua Battles T.Y Danjuma, Others Over 9mobile

Wema Bank supports innovative firms with $200,000 grant

AfDB plans $230m trade finance package for Access Bank

83% of Nigerian women embrace entrepreneurship —Mastercard study

Nigeria in stiff competition for investments — Shell

I’m Resting After Delivering $20bn Refinery – Dangote

Caution Wike, others in Rivers, Ogoni youths urge Tinubu

130th anniversary: Hope Waddell offers free medical outreach, upgrades facilities

Osun NULGE sues APC over LG takeover

Anambra poll: PDP nomination forms unsold as deadline elapses

Delta ex-lawmaker joins APC, says PDP broken

Sanwo-Olu unveils three roads today

Okpebholo threatens to revoke delayed contracts

Assembly lists four breaches by Fubara, threatens RSIEC chair’s arrest

Kwara Assembly confirms two commissioner-nominees

Lagos Assembly crisis: Acting clerk hospitalised after DSS’ visit

Rivers judiciary denies report of Fubara sending CJ on annual leave

Benue tackles CJ for relocating LG poll tribunal to Abuja

Delta equips police with high-tech investigation room

Sokoto warns against diversion of N1.66bn drugs, kits

Oyo plans Sovereign Wealth Fund

15,000 buses needed to transport Lagos passengers daily – LAMATA

Bauchi kicks off irrigation farming support

Jigawa urges BoI to disburse N6bn SME fund

Oyo to upgrade 66 health centres

6 injured, shops razed as Hausas, indigenes clash in Kogi community over water

Many injured as hoodlums attack Rivers community

Police arrest man with human skulls in Ebonyi

Kidnappers kill Kaduna Catholic priest

2 die, 14 rescued as 3-storey building collapses in Lagos

Boko Haram Demands $500,000 Ransom For Judge’s Wife, Driver, Orderly


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1957, Ghana became the first African country to gain independence from colonial rule. Ghana emerged as a sovereign state from the former British colonies Gold Coast and Togoland. Kwame Nkrumah was the country’s first leader.

Keeping busy and making optimism a way of life can restore your faith in yourself. – Lucille Ball

Good morning

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