SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 12/02/2025

Nigeria receives $52bn as Afreximbank’s largest beneficiary

Customs suspends 4 percent FOB charge

Dangote refinery reduces diesel price to N1,020/litre

MTN implements 50% tariff hike, raises data prices

CBN scraps free ATM withdrawals for other banks’ customers

LASG cancels work-from-home for civil servants

Cross River to host African Skating Championship

Hoodlums beat corps member to death in Plateau

Abductors Of APC Nat’l Director Demand N350m Ransom

Brazil backs down on entering trade war with US

Nigeria will survive Trump’s healthcare policy changes – FG

Nigeria signs amended BASA with UAE 

FG vows to address US suspension of dropbox visa services


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Aliko Dangote is the richest person in Africa. He has an estimated net worth of $10.8 billion and his business empire, Dangote Group, is one of the largest private-sector employers in Nigeria.
  • The fist product to have a bar code was Wrigleys gum.

Tinubu orders ministers to brief Nigerians on activities, policies

Tinubu orders immediate take over of Nok University

Tinubu praises Okpebholo for advancing healthcare

Senate will pass N54.2trn 2025 budget this week, says Akpabio

Senate urges FG to approve N10bn for Capital Market in 2025 budget

Senate panel grills police over alleged missing 178,459 firearms

Reps call for troops deployment in Borno communities

Reps grill Immigration over accounts, alleged irregular contract award, others

Telcos tariff hike: Reps demand reversal as new pricing begins

Reps seek regulatory body on organ harvesting, transplants

Communal clashes: Ebonyi gov withdraws charges against 180 suspects

EFCC arraigns man for refusing to accept Naira as legal tender

General Alkali’s Murder: Court Recalls Ex-Garrison Commander, Mohammed, For Cross-Examination

Court orders forfeiture of 6.3bn Keystone Bank shares to FG

FG takes over Nok varsity after court forfeiture order

Nigeria Gains Point As Transparency Int’l Ranks Country 36th Most Corrupt

Newly recruited police constables resume in states

18 federal directors fail perm sec qualifying exam

Minna-Lagos train services to start soon – NRC

Africa Energy Bank ready next month – Minister

Lokpobiri blames middlemen for exit of oil multinationals

Oil-producing states battle N1.3tn despite N2.8tn derivation allocation

2027: Adesina Hints At Presidential Run

INEC strategises to tackle vote-buying during Anambra gov poll

Autonomy: AGF finalising direct payment system for LG allocations, says minister

NDDC will complete all ongoing projects – MD

Vandalised Abuja underground cable under repairs – TCN

Electricity: TCN seeks support to tackle rising acts of vandalism

NAHCO records N12.8bn profit

Pension funds grow to N22.51tn

FG, Edo partner to open fistula care centre in Benin

Alleged corrupt practices: PSC writes IGP, demands investigation of Zone 7 officers 

Govt unveils raw materials information system

Wike to security agencies: monitor influx of suspicious persons into FCT

Oluremi Tinubu flags off TB prevention campaign in Jigawa

UNIZIK female student bites lecturer during clash over TikTok video

UNILAG Muslim alumni to hold lecture on S’West Shari’ah panels

Benue varsity student drowns in river

10 Oyo poly students hospitalised after inhaling poisonous gas

Catholic bishops urge S’West govs to unite against bandits’ incursion

Afrijet starts Nigeria-Gabon flight

FBN Holdings Plc rebrands as First HoldCo Plc

Govt must respect trade union rights – NECA

Agriculture, policy experts urge NASS leadership to ban GMOs in Nigeria

Shonga: Rice farmers seek intervention as flood submerges 3,000 hectares

Bury presidential ambition against Tinubu in 2027, Ganduje tells north

PDP NWC voids suspension of BoT chairman Wabara

PDP fumes as another Rep defects to APC

Anarchy has arrived Labour Party – Kenneth Okonkwo

You belong to Nollywood not politics, LP slams Kenneth Okonkwo

I won’t go on exile despite plans to arrest me —el-Rufai

Makinde, APC trade words over UCH power crisis

A’Ibom gov submits 27 commissioner, SA nominees to assembly

I won’t negotiate with bandits, Zamfara gov insists

Oyebanji excited as Ekiti federal lawmakers offer to pay doctors’ salaries

Delta won’t allow oil companies oppress host communities – Oborevwori

Stay out of Benue politics, Alia tells corps members

Governor Nwifuru grants amnesty to 159 inmates in Ebonyi

I’m not responsible for Nengi’s pregnancy –  Governor Diri

Adeleke woos foreign investors to boost Osun’s Agric sector

Osun to establish sports commission, trust fund -Adeleke

Sanwo-Olu urges NYSC members to drive community development 

Lagos Assembly calls for strict action against open defecation

Tension as police occupy Osun LG secretariats over chairmen’s tenure

Kano anti-graft agency arrests gov’s aide, others for N105m fraud

Ogun aviation village generated N700m, 5,000 jobs – Commissioner

Police arrest 580 suspects, rescue 30 kidnapped victims in Kaduna – Commissioner

Jigawa to recruit 9,970 guards for schools, hospitals, others

Govt diverts traffic for Lagos marathon

Police arrest notorious cultist terrorising Rivers

Woman sells baby for N4m, gives mother N600,000

Lara George calls out churches for underpaying local gospel artists

Slain Anambra lawmaker, Justice Azuka, for burial February 15


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1912, the last Emperor of China abdicated at the age of 6. Puyi was expelled from the Forbidden City after a military coup in 1924. He died on October 17, 1967 aged 61.
  • On this day in 1909, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded in the U.S. It is one of the oldest and most influential civil rights organizations in the United States

You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right. – Abraham Lincoln

Good morning

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

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