SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 09/04/2025

Kaduna launches Nigeria’s first special Agro-Industrial processing zone

Ajaero mobilises NLC members to invade LP offices nationwide

NCC proposes 12-month grace to reclaim airtime on deactivated lines

Mbah urges Africa to exploit intra-trade for economic growth

Zulum says: Military failing to repel insurgents, DHQ fires back

Banana Island lockdown: Estate gates shut, traffic chaos spreads to Lekki-Ajah axis

Lakurawa bandits kill three fishermen in Sokoto village raid

Bandits Kill 2, Abduct 60 In Zamfara In Revenge For Kingpins’ Killings

Shun army recruitment, embrace farming, IPOB tells Igbo youths

Tariff war: US slams Nigeria over import ban on 25 items

Adesina seeks alliance to boost African economic opportunities

ECOWAS Bank approves €230m to strengthen infrastructure in West Africa

Nigeria moves to unlock climate fund, spur green investment

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DID YOU KNOW?

• The world’s largest man-made lake by volume is Lake Kariba. Stretching about 1,300km, it was created in the late 1950s and early 1960s by the construction of the Kariba Dam across the Zambezi River.

• Cricket is believed to have originated in England as early as the 13th century, while the first recorded game was played in 1646. Also, there are several formats of the game, each with its own rules and customs.

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Tinubu, Obasanjo, Obi mourn Pascal Dozie

Shettima tasks new NISO board to stabilise power grid

Shettima, Sanwo-Olu, others to grace NACC gala

Senate committee excited by Bodo-Bonny Road progress

LP not a Ponzi scheme, Reps caucus tells Abure

Orji denies N228.4m fraud allegations, demands apology

11 PDP governors urge S’Court to halt Rivers emergency rule

Court slams Abuja school N100m damages over student’s death

Court bars Ibas from appointing Sole Administrators in Rivers Councils

Fubara’s Chief of Staff slams Nwaeke, Channels TV with N2bn libel suit

A’ Court reserves judgment in dispute over Kano’s electoral body’s composition

NSCDC uncovers illegal crude oil connection in Abia

NSA warns against ransom payment to terrorists, kidnappers, others

Presidency blasts Ndume over lopsided appointments claim

Lead poisoning: Alake orders illegal miners out of Zamfara

FG to audit finances, operations of Ajaokuta Steel Company

N300bn fund for graduate entrepreneurs coming — Education Minister

N5.51trn pension funds driving Nigeria’s real sector – PenCom DG

FG targets $20bn annual revenue from space economy, unveils new reforms

NAMA in Germany to procure air-to-ground communications

Yakubu heads INEC weekly meeting, group condemns sacking claim

NNPC crude suspension to Dangote refinery affected OPEC output – Report

Plateau, NRC partner to revive rail services

FG wholesale centre in Anambra to be ready in 18 months – CPAPWL

Idiroko Customs seize N1.79B worth of contraband in 2024

Wike Dines With Suspended Rivers Lawmakers In UK

FCT enrols 198,810 residents in health insurance scheme in one year

Patients Stranded As Workers’ Shortage Cripples Services At FCT Hospital

Ondo poly workers begin strike over unpaid salaries

One matcheted, others injured in Osun poly cult clash

Paystack launches zap for easy financial transaction

Mikano Motors delivers new car to Miss Nigeria

Champion Breweries posts N21bn revenue

Abia NYCN partner NOA to foster youth engagement

Afenifere accuses MURIC of stoking religious war in Ekiti

Ifa council urges Alaafin to uphold Yoruba tradition

AAC elects woman to battle Soludo in gov poll

Plateau killings genocidal, sponsored — Mutfwang

Communal clashes: Adeleke relaxes curfew ahead of WASSCE

Kaduna gov approves N3.8bn pensioners’ gratuities

Otti to re-engage 2011 sacked non-indigene workers

Borno Gov concerned over resurgence of Boko Haram attacks

Abiodun demands accountability from Ogun workers

My political journey inspired by wife – Kebbi gov

Edo Assembly backs Okpebholo’s move to hire consultant for fund recovery

Rebuild war-torn Orsu LG, Imo assembly urges Uzodimma

Kogi LG’s N3bn laundered through private accounts — Witness

Abia teachers recruitment panel shortlists 7,180

Rivers urges youths to join military

Collect illegal fees, levies, lose your job, Abia warns teachers

Sarkin Sasa not recognised Ibadan chieftaincy title — Olubadan

Rivers NUJ condemns members’ brutality by police

Overhead water tank kills woman in Lagos apartment

Court remands man for allegedly defiling 19-month-old baby in Lagos

Female driver seeks justice after alleged brutal assault by Lagos urchin

Gunmen kill three farmers in Ondo, police launch manhunt

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TODAY IN HISTORY

• On this day in 2005, Prince Charles married Camilla Parker Bowles. Charles was formerly married to Diana, Princess of Wales. His second marriage to Camilla made him the first member of the British Royal Family to have a civil wedding.

• On this day in 1860, the world’s first recording of the human voice was created. French inventor Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville used his phonautograph, the earliest known sound recording device, to capture himself singing the French folk song “Au clair de la lune”.

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Once you replace negative thoughts with positive ones, you’ll start having positive results. – Willie Nelson

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