SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 14/01/2025

Tariff hike: Telcos, ICT firms owe banks N1.69tn

N200bn USSD debt: NCC to name defaulting banks this week

Accidental bombing: Air chief sends probe team to Zamfara

Again, Boko Haram strikes in Borno, kills 40, abducts scores

Why Lagos Speaker Obasa was removed

48,932 inmates in custody awaiting trial – Acting NCoS CG

Depots raise petrol price to N950/litre

NLC demands new minimum wage for Lagos media workers

Naira appreciates to N1,655/$ in parallel market

Hollywood actress, Dalyce Curry’s body found burnt in Los Angeles home amid wildfires

Grammys still set for February 2 despite Los Angeles fire tragedy

China ‘will never surpass us,’ Biden boasts

Tinubu, Kagame push for increased intra-African trade, collaboration


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Your brain uses about 20% of your body’s total oxygen and calorie intake. Even though it only makes up about 2% of your body’s weight.
  • The first successful human genome sequencing was completed in 2003, as part of the Human Genome Project, at a cost of nearly $3 billion. Today, it can be done for a few hundred dollars.

Africa Has What It Takes To Develop Itself – Tinubu

NASS joint committee probe N4tr revenue shortfall due to waivers

NASS Queries JAMB Over N1.85bn Spendings On Meals, Insecticide, Others

Tax bills: Senate meets FG team, plans public hearing

Reps berate Customs, Immigration for shunning probe hearing

Stampede: Judge faults Ooni’s ex-queen, others’ detention, grants N10m bail

Nova Bank asks court to wind up firm over $2.58m debt

Edo: Tribunal hearing stalled as Okpebholo, INEC seek adjournment

Court nullifies Rivers PDP congresses

We need more fund to combat insecurity, says CDS

PSC dismisses two ASPs, promotes 2,329 officers

FG confident to achieve N36tn revenue target – Bagudu

FG to unveil three cancer facilities in May – Minister

21m housing gap: Nigeria needs N5trn for 2.7m new houses annually in 10 years

Port rehabilitation delayed despite $700m loan

We are working to eliminate grid collapse- FG

NERC transfers full electricity regulatory oversight to four states

FG unveils two savings bonds

MDAs remitted N7bn VAT in two months – Report

Immigration intensifies border patrol over Lakurawa

December inflation projected to hit 35.20%

TotalEnergies projects N2.41bn profit in Q1

11 banks market capitalisation hit N7.90tn

SAHCO sacks staff for extortion at Lagos airport

Funke Akindele’s Everybody Loves Jennifer rakes in N1.6bn in cinemas 

MAPOLY shut as students protest results verification

Lagos varsity retirees lament 31-month unpaid pension

Plateau varsity seeks partnership with LGs on insecurity, others

ASUU decries alleged plan to abolish TETFund

Rivers group gives Mbata seven days to resign as Ohanaeze  President

Activist Madunagu for burial Friday

Suspend Nigerian Governors Forum to avert looming crisis – Edwin Clark warns

Anyanwu defies court order, resumes as PDP National Secretary

Zulum condemns killing of Borno farmers by ‘ISWAP insurgents’  

Makinde presents instruments of office to Alaafin

Healthcare free for families of deceased soldiers – Sanwo-Olu

Obasa joins league of sacked House of Assembly Speakers

Be calm, return to work, Lagos tells protesting broadcast workers

Kebbi presents N10m to families of two policemen killed by Lakurawa

A’Ibom gov’s aide constructs link-bridge in Nasarawa community

Task force intercepts truck-load of iron monoxide in Taraba

Kogi begins statewide property enumeration

200 special voluntary groups get training in Gombe

Two killed, houses razed in Ondo communal clash

Ramadan: Kano tailors, other businesses decry low patronage

Oyo town welcomes Alaafin Owoade amid funfair

Four arrested over alleged theft of A’Ibom fire trucks

Abducted Anambra reverend sisters released after six days in captivity

Man arrested for killing mother with stick in C’River

Gospel singer arrested with severed corps member’s head in Nasarawa

Woman cuts 10-yr-old boy with blade for stealing N600 to buy friends ice cream


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1967, the Summer of Love was launched with the Human Be-In. San Francisco was the epicenter of the Hippie Revolution, which soon influenced cultures around the world.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. – John Lubbock

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

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