SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 16/02/2025

FG seeks fresh $300m health security loan from W’Bank

USAID: Calls for probe spread over alleged B’Haram funding

NNPC says video claiming Dangote petrol lasts longer ‘misleading’

First direct Shanghai-Lagos cargo ship berths at PTML terminal

109-day darkness: How UCH doctors attend to patients with torchlight

Binance’s Gambaryan insists $150m bribery allegation against Reps true

Freed Israeli hostage finally learns name of youngest daughter

15 dead in India stampede to catch trains to Hindu mega-festival

48 dead after gold mine collapse in Mali

Openly gay South African imam shot dead

14-year-old killed, four injured in Austria’s knife attack

Kenyan athlete Edwin Kibet wins 2025 Access Bank Lagos city marathon

Miss Universe Nigeria, Adetshina’s  mother arrested in South Africa


DID YOU KNOW?

  • The Osun-Osogbo Grove in Osun State, is a 78-hectare sacred forest which houses shrines of the Osun goddess. The conserved space, home to an expansive range of plants and animals, also has many sculptures and painting, many of which were made done by Suzanne Wenger, an Austrian artist who visited the grove in the 1950s and never went back. The grove was recognised as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2005.
  • A 41-gun salute is the traditional salute to a royal birth in Great Britain.

President Tinubu attends 38th AU Summit in Ethiopia

Tinubu urges Kano gov to resolve BUK land dispute

Reps Grill AMCON, BPE For Selling $700m Asset $30m

ICPC seeks forfeiture of N1.3b for Kaduna light rail

Lagos: Obasa drags Meranda, lawmakers to court over removal as speaker

Matawalle seeks probe into denial of Canada visas to CDS, others

FG seeks fresh $300m health security loan from W’Bank

FG acquired N32bn weapons, others for military in 2024 – Report

NNPCL deducted $525m as tax credit for road infrastructure in 2024 – Report

No system collapse has occurred in 2025 – TCN

NNPCL purchases 500 CNG-powered trucks

Govt evaluates agricultural research systems nationwide

Tinubu will commission several FCT projects in May – Wike 

OAU graduate dies despite N9.4m cancer treatment

Armed robbers invade UI hostel, steal students’ phones, others

First Lady elected member of OAFLAD Steering Committee

N54.99tn 2025 budget may hike inflation – Economists

I wrote the King and horseman in two and half days -Soyinka

North divided over Tinubu re-election as leaders take sides

APC to form shadow government in Kano

NEC: APC intensifies consultation, shops for new date

No politician with conscience will join APC – Ex-Sokoto gov, Tambuwal

Kaduna Gov, Uba Sani receives PDP, LP defectors, says ‘ APC is one family’

Fubara orders implementation N85,000 minimum wage in Rivers LGAs

Sanwo-Olu opens 29 roads in seven weeks

Sanwo-Olu lauds IFC’s $50m investment in Lagos Free Zone

LASUTH begins operations at Patient Attendants’ quarters

Declaring Ramadan fast not to tackle Sultan –Yoruba League of Imams

Oba of Benin begins burial rites for mother

Adebanjo stayed committed to Afenifere’s principles – Ooni

Three children killed as truck crashes into Anambra building

18 kidnap, robbery suspects nabbed with 38 guns in Edo

Gunmen abduct Catholic priest, two others in Rivers

Kwara cleric dismembers 25-year-old Facebook girlfriend


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 2005, the Kyoto Protocol went into effect. The global warming pact was ratified by 191 countries to date – excluding the United States.
  • On this day in 1985, Hezbollah was founded. The Lebanese political party and militant group is classified as a terrorist organization by several western countries.

Truth exists; only lies are invented. – Georges Braque

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

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