SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 16/12/2024

Council autonomy: ALGON, NULGE kick as govs get N2tn LG allocations

FG overshoots 2024 borrowing target by N4trn

High Expectations As 32 States Budget N22 Trillion For 2025

Keyamo defends Winners’ Chapel airstrip, says license won’t be revoked

Food: FG, World Bank votes $600m for rural roads expansion

N20bn To Fund 500 Vehicles As Creditcorp Auto Finance Kicks Off

Sanwo-Olu okays 10-year jail for organ harvesters

10,000 intending Christian pilgrims pay N30bn, airlift begins Dec 22

Brazil president Lula discharged from hospital following emergency surgery

Qatar resumes diplomatic ties with Syria after 13 years

ECOWAS to approve Niger, Mali, B’Faso’s withdrawal Jan 29

Nigeria meets 100% ECOWAS financial obligation for first time in 19 years


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Niger is the largest Nigerian state with an area of 74,363 sq. km. It is larger than Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Osun, Ekiti and Ondo states combined. 
  • Global demand for toilet paper consumes around 30,000 trees daily or 10 million trees yearly.

Embrace Ghana’s democratic example, Tinubu urges ECOWAS leaders

Tinubu Pays ECOWAS N85bn, $54m Community Levy

N’Assembly faults NDLEA’s N25m compensation for parents of slain boy

Another SAN slams N500m alleged defamatory suit on Farotimi

Lagos court halts FG’s N60bn fine against Facebook

Court convicts over 200 Boko Haram terrorists in major counter-insurgency breakthrough 

Police arrest international ‘fraudsters’, reject N66m bribe

Police kill four IPOB members, five sustain injuries in Imo shootout

Troops arrest 29 suspected oil thieves, destroy 42 illegal refineries

Navy recruits 1,814 sailors

NDLEA intercepts N3.3billion Meth, Loud shipments in auto parts from Canada

NiMet predicts three-day dust haze, cloudiness from Monday

Nigeria Exports N181.62bn Electricity In 9 Months

Minister commends IPI, NUJ on successful election, calls for responsible journalism

Abuja land only valid after payment, C-of-O — Minister’s spokesperson

FG expenditure exceeds revenue by N4.5tn– Report

FG raises duty tour allowances, others for public officials

NIMASA confirms oil spill at SPDC Bonny terminal

Fire: NEMA begins nationwide sensitization of tanker drivers, others

FG constructs smart police station in Abuja

FG secures $600m foreign agriculture loans

N50bn required annually for slum upgrade – Minister

FG begins subsidised renal dialysis in eight states

FG agency blames Enugu as police arrest workers

FG, US eye skill development in transport sector

OPS fears SMEs’ collapse as cash scarcity lingers

Court orders Radix Pension to pay ex-MD N57m, $21m

Dangote refinery extends export to three African countries

Desist from verbal attacks on Badenoch, focus on performance – Igboho tells Shettima

Clark Urges Tinubu to declare state of emergency on south-south roads 

Kwankwaso, Donald Duke, Obasanjo Meet Over Nigerian Politics

Tinubu not threatened by Obasanjo, Kwankwaso, Obi’s 2027 talks – APC

Kwara gov wasted N2bn on foreign trips, PDP alleges

Benue governor inuagurates new security outfit

Kaduna governor distributes free drugs, medical equipment

Kaduna begins rebuild of 187-year-old Zaria mosque

Oyo receives 20 CNG-powered buses to boost sustainable transport 

Osun govt urges FG to provide CNG centres, vehicles for residents

Edo threatens revocation of N8bn road contract

A’Ibom workers concede to January minimum wage kick-off

Oba of Benin begins Igue festival

Ilorin emir advocates commission for PWDs’ needs

Haastrup joins race for Owa Obokun stool

Benue Boat Mishap: 11 rescued, 20 confirmed dead – Police


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 2010, the last official episode of Larry King Live, one of CNN’s most watched TV program was aired. While the official end date for the talk show was December 16, an episode on cancer was aired two days later on December 18. The host, Larry King, died on January 23, 2021

People who don’t respect money don’t have any. – J. Paul Getty

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