SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 09/01/2025

Telephone tariffs to go up

Japa, agbero, eba, 17 other Nigerian words added to Oxford Dictionary

Emefiele loses bid to stop $4.5bn, N2.8bn fraud trial

FG N9bn e-border project fails to stop bandits, illegal aliens

MNJTF forces killed 310 ISWAP terrorists in 2024 —Commander

HMPV: WHO warns against travel, trade restrictions

Brent Crude Oil Reaches $77 per Barrel, Highest in 2025

New virus: FG focuses on Lagos in fresh alert

Chinese bank supports Kano-Kaduna railway with $254m loan

Celebrities flee Los Angeles blazes as Hollywood premieres scrapped

No plan with Nigeria to destabilise Niger, says France

Nigeria To UN: Probe Boko Haram’s Funding, Training


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Bitcoin, the first decentralized cryptocurrency, was created by an anonymous person or group of people using the name Satoshi Nakamoto in 2009.
  • Koalas are the only animal besides humans to have unique fingerprints, meaning you could potentially identify a koala by its prints

Tinubu splits Nigerian Aviation College into six campuses across geo-political zones

Hunger: Tinubu under pressure to dump food import waiver

N49.7trn 2025 Budget: National Assembly meets FG’s Economic Team

Federal lawmakers seek more funding for 2024 capital projects

N’Theatre: Tribunal orders Bankers’ Cttee firm to pay N19.4bn for breach

Court orders forfeiture of N228m linked to ex-Abia gov Orji

Court bars chieftains from interfering in Ohanaeze election

Borno Attack: We Eliminated 34 Terrorists But Lost 6 Soldiers – Military

Army GOC inaugurates welfare projects at 343 Artillery Regiment in Rivers

Air chief celebrates NAF engineers for reviving moribund aircraft

EFCC detains 10 officers for stealing cash, gold exhibits

NIMASA, NDLEA join forces to combat drug trafficking in Nigerian waters

NAPTIP DG narrates how Iraqi taskmaster maltreated Nigerian lady

Telcos Will Soon Increase Tariffs But Not By 100% – FG

FG Hints At New National Carrier, May Jettison Nigeria Air/ET Pact

FG proposes additional N1.1bn for population census

FG pledges adequate compensation for displaced Zungeru communities

FG inaugurates 23km road project in two C’River LGAs

I rose from Almajiri to become NNPCL boss, says Mele Kyari

FG to take over 157 abandoned Almajiri schools

NiMet forecasts hazy weather beginning Wednesday

Capital importation rises 224% to $9.04 bn

LGs to benefit from SEC borrowing framework

N100bn grant: PETROAN denies seeking ‘free money’ from FG

Over 1,000 screened as NNPC Foundation begins free cataract surgeries in S/West 

UNILAG to confer 561 First-Class degrees at 55th convocation

Nigerian Breweries, varsities get permits to generate electricity

20 insurance firms market capitalisation hits N590.26bn

Oando gets new board chairman as Alake resigns

Ohanaeze leader: MASSOB, IPOB clash over Okiro

Ogunmekan seeks patience with Tinubu’s reforms

Ganduje tackles Obi as APC spokesman receives 200 death threats

Bayelsa gov mourns ex-military administrator Abbe

Gov Yusuf reads riot act to commissioners, warns against disunity

Bauchi gov appoints three sacked commissioners as SAs

Kano governor’s aide dies a day after appointment 

C’River Speaker advocates unity, progress as Assembly resumes

Kwara mandates residency registration for pensioners

Govt orders indefinite closure of forest activities in Bayelsa

Abia police disband anti-cultism unit, demote officer

Edo Internal Revenue Service targets over N10b  monthly revenue

Man Electrocuted While Attempting To Vandalise Transformer In Edo

LAWMA arrests 50 for illegal waste disposal

LASEPA warns against cigarette sale to minors

Gunmen kidnap two Catholic sisters in Anambra

Tension rises as gunmen kill 18 in Imo communities

Ekiti man jailed seven years for N64,000 phone theft

Police arrest Lagos teacher for slapping 3-year-old pupil

Police rescue 59 trafficked Kano children


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1970, General Odumegwu-Ojukwu handed over power to his second in command, Chief of General Staff Major-General Philip Effiong and absconded the short-lived Republic of Biafra during Nigeria’s Civil War for Côte d’Ivoire where he was granted political asylum.
  • On this day in 1861, the first shots of the American Civil War were fired. The steamer, Star of the West, was fired upon by the Confederates as it attempted to enter Charleston Harbor

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones. – John Lennon

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

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