SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 18/02/2025

NELFUND opens portal for 2024/2025 applications for student loan Feb 22

Osun LG crisis: 8 killed as APC, PDP clash

Lagos Assembly suspends plenary indefinitely after security breach

Power outage: UCH resident doctors embark on indefinite strike

Nigeria’s foreign reserves hit $40bn as CBN strengthens forex market

FG plans N2.3tn electricity subsidy in 2025

Tariff hike: Airtel raises data, call rates

No plan to arrest ladies without bras, pants – Anambra

US wants to please Putin, says Ukraine’s Zelensky

Pope’s condition ‘complex’, hospital stay extended – Vatican

Saudi Embassy delivers 100 tons of date to Nigeria

Niger Republic bars Nigerians with ECOWAS passport

AU endorses Nigeria as AfCFTA Digital Trade Champion

Japan, Nigeria police arrest 11 cybercrime suspects, recover $33,320


DID YOU KNOW?

  • English inventor Charles Babbage designed the first computer in the 1830s. It was a mechanical machine with more than 50,000 moving parts and was designed to follow instructions that people entered using punched cards.
  • Lesotho is the only country in the world that lies entirely at an altitude above 1,000 metres. Hence, it is referred to as ‘Kingdom in the sky.’

N’Assembly pushes for 60 new FMCs amid funding, manpower crisis

States project N3tn tax after reform bills passage

AGF bars police from parading suspects

Vacant Rivers Assembly Seats: Court adjourns adoption to April 30

Court bars CBN from withholding Kano LGs allocations

Assets auction: Diezani amends suit against EFCC

Kanu raises alarm, alleges tricks by FG to perpetually hold him down

Ex-Skye Bank chair Ayeni rejects ex-mistress’ daughter

Bench warrant issued against singer Mercy Chinwo’s manager subsists – Court

NAF begins probe as fresh Katsina accidental bombing kills seven

Troops kill terrorists, foil attack on Police Mobile Forces in Katsina

Those Behind Osun LG Crisis Won’t Go Unpunished – IGP

Police deny involvement in viral video of Gombe’s suspected gunrunner’s arrest

Matawalle cautions ex-SGF Lawal on comments against Tinubu

Nigeria records $18.75bn trade surplus 

Economic Diversification: We need aggressive actions – Edun

20,000 communities without electricity in Nigeria – REA

REA commissions 550kWp solar mini-grid for 3,500 households in Plateau

Recruitment: NNPC to issue successful candidates appointment letters

CBN seeks stronger Nigeria-Middle East economic ties

Inflation pushed consumer credit to N4.4tn in November – CBN

Nine states clear N37bn bebt to access UBEC funding

Service extensions followed due process, approved by Tinubu – Customs boss

NAFDAC extends operations against fake medicines

2,798 passengers report maltreatment by airlines to NCAA

Students to picket MTN head office over tariff hike

NANS threatens to picket Gombe varsity over fee hike

Access Bank empowers women with cancer funds

FirstBank graduates 559 from sales academy

Manufacturing costs soared by 18.2% in Q4 – MAN

Most banks don’t sell dollars to BDCs – ABCON

Providus Bank appoints Tukur as non-executive director

$23bn refinery biggest risk of my life – Dangote

Controversial singer Portable declared wanted for assaulting Ogun officials

Davido makes U-turn, praises Osun state commissioner of police

Regina Daniels deactivates Instagram account 

Ned Nwoko denies plans to marry Chika Ike

Nasarawa youths protest proposed relocation of NCDC head office to Niger

You can’t return to office, PDP tells reinstated Osun Chairmen, Councillors

Reinstated APC council boss killed in Osun

2027: ADC Rep rallies northern Yoruba leaders for Tinubu

Rivers won’t recognise pro-Wike lawmakers, Fubara tells N’Assembly caucus

Abiodun promises 24-hour electricity in Abeokuta

North blessed, not inferior to other regions – Gombe gov

Don’t issue statements without clearance, Eno tells appointees

Lagos lawmakers demand investigation into DSS interference 

Nasarawa Assembly rejects commissioner-nominee, screen seven others

EU considers establishment of hydropower generation in Plateau

LASG, Lafarge sign MoU on waste collection

Amotekun Sends Back 114 Northerners In Ondo

Suspected herders kill 19 in fresh Benue attack

A’IBOM: Police recover AK-47 hidden in uncompleted building in Eket LGA

10 children rescued as police smash Anambra trafficking syndicate

Newlywed allegedly tortured to death in Lagos police custody

Midnight fire kills mother, two children in Ondo 

Suspected ritualists dismember another woman in Ogun


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1978, Hawaii hosted the first Ironman Triathlon. Contestants have to swim 3.86 km, bike 180.25 km and complete a marathon run measuring 42.2 km.
  • On this day in 1954, the first Church of Scientology was established. Despite many controversies, Scientology has gained thousands of members since its inception.

Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life. – Yoko Ono

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

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