SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 18/12/2024

National Assembly strengthens security as Tinubu presents 2025 budget

IG bars policemen from stop-and-search duty

Jigawa Uncovers 6,348 Ghost Workers Receiving N3.7bn

Edo Assembly suspends 18 LG chairmen, deputies over alleged insubordination

INEC restores Ezeokenwa as APGA chairman after Supreme Court judgment

MTN pays N200bn monthly in VAT — Tax committee

Crashed helicopter had no Flight Data Recorder, says NSIB report

StreetFoodz Naija winner gets N10m

Nigeria receives UNESCO certificate for Kano Durbar’s cultural heritage status

How I escaped assassination twice in Iraq – Pope

Nigeria, other African countries plan continental credit rating agency

Tinubu hosts Ghana’s president-elect, Mahama in Abuja


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Iguẹ festival has been celebrated in Benin, Edo State, for more than 1000 years except in December 1897 when the British invasion interrupted it. The festivals consists of ceremonies to strenghten the Oba and the people for the New Year.
  • Orthodox Christians in countries such as Russia, Greece, Ukraine and Romania celebrate Christmas on January 7.

Tinubu appoints Aisha Garba as UBEC executive secretary

Insecurity: Akpabio, Ningi tango over govs’ security votes

Senate proposes new capital requirements for insurance firms

Senate urges FG to fund ranching, review ECOWAS treaty

Reps probe non-delivery of 2000 tractors, others, despite N3bn agreement

Reps urge FG to complete Adamawa multi-purpose dam

Bill prohibiting foreign currency use in Nigeria scales 1st reading in Senate

Court sentences two kidnappers to death by hanging in Jigawa

Court stops Adeleke from appointing Owa-Obokun from Haastrup family

ICPC recovers N29.7bn, blocks diversion of public funds

FG has over 7,000 youth initiatives across MDAs – Minister

Govt officials, contractors to fly only Nigerian airlines – Keyamo

Why new CCT chair hasn’t assumed office six months after appointment

NBS survey: N2.2tr ransom paid in one year

FG vows to penalise vehicle owners damaging roads

Lung detox tea video misleading, not approved, says NAFDAC DG

Arms control centre seeks review of 1959 Firearms Act

Food inflation hits 40% despite FG $3.3bn agric loan

Electricity subsidies rise to N199.6bn – NERC

FCT minister disburses N388m to 10 communities 

New insurance bill to boost Nigeria’s GDP growth — NAICOM

CAC deregistered 300,000 dormant companies in one year

MDCN inducts 74 Sokoto varsity medical graduates

First Lady initiative lifts 9,500 elderly citizens with N1.9b

Red Cross distributes customised ATMs, relief materials to Anambra flood victims

Google, Facebook, others pay N3.8tn tax to FG – Repor

Lagos, Access Bank partner to deliver 704 housing units

Flour Mills revitalises Honeywell brand

NCC urged to intervene as 9mobile service disruptions persist

BUA unveils gypsum plaster plant

Nigeria needs strong, virile, independent judiciary – Ozekhome

PDP kicks as Edo Assembly suspends 18 LG chairmen for ‘disobeying’ Okpebholo

Ododo signs law establishing teaching hospital

Abiodun hosts France-based Nigerian singer, Asa 

Okpehbolo swears in officials, vows to end reliance on consultants

Kaduna gov returns Abacha family’s land revoked by El-Rufai

Self-acclaimed agitators engaging in lucrative criminality in South-East – Soludo

Why we established Kajola Dry Port – Abiodun

Sokoto Assembly passes N526.9bn 2025 appropriation bill

Kano Assembly confirms seven commissioner nominees

Katsina Assembly approves N692.2bn 2025 budget

Delta Assembly recalls two suspended members

Delta demands autopsy on Okuama leaders’ bodies

Workers celebrate as Ekiti begins payment of N70,000 minimum wage

Oyo begins N80,000 minimum wage January

FCT records drop in kidnapping, other crimes in 2024 – FCTA

Oyo fire service rescues 12-year-old boy from drowning

3 to die by hanging for killing Delta monarch


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1958, the world’s first communication satellite was launched aboard the Atlas rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Once in orbit, it relayed the first message sent to Earth from space – a short statement by American President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Find out who you are and be that person. That’s what your soul was put on this Earth to be. – Ellen DeGeneres

Good morning

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

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