SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 15/03/2025

INEC plans for 2027 polls

Fubara in limbo as lawmakers suspend sitting indefinitely

We have no kidnapping gang – Police respond to El-Rufai

Kaduna inaugurates electronic vehicle project

Anambra govt bans students’ use of phone in secondary schools

World Poetry Day: Nigerian,Cuban poets to honour Soyinka

Africa’s first AI film, ‘Makemation’, berths in Lagos

US actor Gene Hackman leaves fortune to deceased wife, nothing for kids in will

Putin asks Ukraine to surrender in Kursk

Canada will never be part of US, says New PM Carney

US expels South African ambassador after Trump criticism

Turkey detains five for allegedly spying for Iran

EU pledges support for Nigeria’s digital ecosystem with €820m investment

11-year-old Nigerian wins Spelling Bee, heads to US for global contest


DID YOU KNOW?

  • A “hat-trick” in sports, most commonly in football and hockey, refers to a player scoring three goals in a single game. The term originated in cricket, where it meant a bowler taking three wickets with three consecutive balls. In cricket, a bowler who achieves this feat is traditionally presented with a hat.
  • Every year 22,000 tons of dust is blown from the Sahara Desert all the way to the Amazon Rainforest.

Tinubu to Catholic Bishops: I’m not a religious bigot

Tinubu To Catholic Bishops: My Reforms Hard Choice Nigerians Must Face

Natasha: Kingibe makes U-turn, demands alleged sexual harassment probe

Nnamdi Kanu: Abaribe distances self from viral threat to shut down N’Assembly

A’Court suspends Emir Sanusi’s reinstatement

Court rejects Bello Turji’s accomplices’ bail application

Court dismisses criminal complaint against Nollywood actress, Lizzy Anjorin

Customs seize 57,370 litres of PMS in Adamawa, Taraba

Nigeria spent $5.47bn on foreign debt servicing, says CBN

FG Opposes N/Assembly’s Proposals For 200 New Varsities

Disquiet as TCN conceals distribution data

Towers’ collapse plunges Rivers, Bayelsa into darkness

RMRDC mobilises for maiden Africa Raw Materials Summit

Govt plans 7,000 telecom towers under public-private deal

NAFDAC shuts three warehouses in Ekiti over infraction

NASENI gathers stakeholders to promote Made-in Nigeria goods in Anambra

Nekede poly suspends lecturer for assaulting student

FUNAAB partners firm to develop campus bakery

Dangote refinery gets fresh crude cargoes from NNPCL

Cosmos Maduka gets NICA’s fellowship award

FirstBank refutes allegations of fraud against its operations

Your allegation against me baseless, Malami replies Obasanjo

Ohanaeze meets Southeast Caucus of House of Reps over national development

Pro-Akpabio protesters storm UN building in Abuja, fault Natasha

Buhari’s ex-ministers lead APC defection train to SDP

‘I will be flagbearer in 2027’ — SDP’s 2023 presidential candidate tells defectors

El-Rufai’s exit won’t affect Tinubu’s re-election — S’East APC chair

Damagum bows as PDP Govs move to re-assert ‘selves over party affairs

2027: Jandor meets Tinubu

Abiodun appoints best Unilag graduates education ambassadors, gifts them N20m

Okpehbolo suspends safety response team over two-year-old girl’s death

Enugu gov orders relocation of spare parts markets

Edo deputy gov urges students to embrace NELFUND

Lack of proper investment in PHC bane of Nigeria’s health system – Bayelsa D/Gov

A’Ibom Chief Judge releases 55 inmates

Kaduna distributes 7,000 motorcycles to civil servants

Appeal Court Did Not Invalidate Sanusi’s Reinstatement – Kano Gov’t

Delta to create database for farmers

Plateau gets NERC order to regulate electricity market

C’River moves to reclaim encroached lands, warns illegal occupants

Osun Amotekun dismisses rumoured death in training camp

Edo women lead protests against Senator Natasha over attack on Akpabio

Police arrest suspect for beheading, mutilating Almajiri pupil in Jigawa

Kidnapped Edo seminarian killed, rescued priest recovering– Police

58-year-old man kills self in Ogun

24 year-old Benue varsity student drowns in River Benue


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1985, the world’s first internet domain name was registered. Symbolics.com was registered by the Symbolics Computer Corporation of Massachusetts. Today, there are over 1 billion domains.

Don’t neglect the gold in your own backyard. – Ben Okri

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