SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 17/03/2025

Govs lobby Tinubu to block LG direct payment

States plan N28.8tn spending on infrastructure

AMCON recovers N2.1tn from debtors

Dangote refinery polypropylene set to hit market

DSS, NIA probe Natasha’s attendance of IPU meeting in New York — REPORT

Life, motor insurance lead with N22bn unresolved complaints

Atiku, Amnesty warn against victimising corper who criticised Tinubu

Asake and I have settled our differences, hospital bills sorted – Father

Pope seen celebrating mass in first photo since hospitalisation

59 killed, 155 injured in Macedonia nightclub fire

Cuban foreign minister to visit Nigeria for high-level talks

Alliance Française holds French week in Rivers

Nigerian sets Guinness record for 106hr longest sewing marathon


DID YOU KNOW?

  • An “ultracrepidarian” is someone who speaks as an authority on a subject they know little about. It is derived from a Latin phrase ‘ne supra crepidam’ meaning ‘don’t go beyond the shoe’ after the Greek painter Apelles, displayed a painting and a cobbler criticized the rendering of a foot.
  • Nutmeg is an hallucinogen. The spice contains myristicin, a natural compound that has mind-altering effects if ingested in large doses.

Tinubu celebrates Osakwe’s historic UK cybersecurity award

Senate to expedite passage of Forest security bill — Barau

Reps committee recovers N28.7 billion debt from two oil companies

Court strikes out forgery charges against Cleanserve chair, MD

Ex-England star John Fashanu sues police for £100k after arrest in Nigeria

EFCC recovered N365.4bn, secured 4,111 convictions in 2024 – Chairman

EFCC arrests Tiktoker Murja over alleged currency abuse

NDLEA intercepts drug shipments to US, S’Arabia, Italy

100 truckloads of fake drugs seized in Lagos, others – NAFDAC

Army attacks Eko Disco substation over power outage

NYSC mum as corper alleges threat to life for criticising Tinubu

Nigeria imported N520bn weapons in 2024 – Report

FG to execute five road projects in Katsina – Minister

Govt plans heavy ground rents on unoccupied buildings to tackle housing deficit

Diphtheria claims over 1,300 lives in three years – NCDC

REA installs solar power in 20 varsities, three teaching hospitals

Federal Polytechnics seek solar power intervention from REA

UNN council visits Azikiwe’s widow, commends late ex-president

UNICAL renames admin building after pioneer registrar

Christopher varsity warns new students against drug abuse, others

NFF welcomes ValueJet as airline partners

SNA to unveil 12,303-square-meter world record painting April 2

SEC plans public shaming of capital market violators

SEC revokes Mainland Trust’s registration, suspends Centurion registrars

OPay extends N1.2bn 10-year scholarship initiative to OAU

TEF to unveil 2025 cohort of entrepreneurship programme

NECA rejects high FRC levies on private firms

There Are Drug Addicts, Vagabonds Among Traditional Rulers – Obasanjo

Kukah hails Soludo, says governance not about competition

Falana warns DSS, NIA against probe of Natasha’s IPU attendance

SDP appoints chairman

‘You can’t make us leave PDP’ — Lamido rejects El-Rufai’s invitation to SDP

2027: Jandor to announce new political move, after meeting Tinubu

A’Ibom APC elders, Akpabio clash over alleged anti-party activities

We didn’t borrow to accomplish achievements in 3 years – Gov Soludo 

Makinde bags Independent Newspaper Man of the Year award

Budget letter: Rivers, Assembly differ, Fubara urges House to reconvene

Katsina gov courts foreign investors for agriculture, energy, technology

Budget presentation: We haven’t received any letter from Fubara – Rivers Assembly

Osun meets monarchs of boundary communities over insecurity

Lagos diverts traffic for Independence Bridge repairs

Kwara revokes billboard licences

SUBEB hails Aiyedatiwa for approving 1,100 teachers’ recruitment

Ibadan enjoys harmony despite religious differences – Olubadan

Students, parents sign undertaking as Niger reopens schools after student clashes

LASG, WaterAid to build 350 public toilets

Abductors of Ondo businessman, wife, daughter demand N30m ransom

Abia monarch, others remanded over 20-year-old’s death

Two arrested for beheading 10-year-old in Adamawa

Corpse dumped at Osun bus stop causes panic


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1992, apartheid in South Africa came to an end. In a referendum, 68.7% of white South Africans voted for an abolishment of racial segregation in the country.
  • On this day in 1969 Golda Meir became Israel’s first female Prime Minister. In her country, Meir was known as the “Iron Lady” long before British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher rose to power.

It only seems impossible until it’s done. – Nelson Mandela

Good morning

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

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