SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 19/01/2025

Tragic weekend in Niger as 70 burnt scooping petrol from crashed tanker

BRICS: Nigeria becomes partner country

Autonomy: LGs move to open CBN accounts

Petrol price hike: Queues resurface at filling stations

Telcos tariff hike may push rate to N560/1GB

Suspected B/Haram, ISWAP members arrested in Osun, Adeleke hails DSS

Wike tsunami: VIPs rush to save Abuja property

Voters’ apathy mars Ondo LG polls

Marabouts flown from Senegal for me to become gov, but I refused — Diri

‘Nigeria Destroys Lives’, Kemi Badenoch Fires Fresh Shot

Catholic church suspends priest over secret marriage in United States

Nigeria-born journalist gets shortlisted for UK-based awards

Nigerians donate over ₦2m to schoolboy in Lagos businesswoman’s dance video


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Around 4,000 steps are enough to reap the health benefits of walking.
  • Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Tinubu celebrates Customs chief Adeniyi at 59

Speak truth to power without antagonising govt, VP Shettima tells media firms

NASS to commence work on Tax Bills

Tax Reform Bills: Governors’ Decision Not Enough, Says Ndume

Nnamdi Kanu petitions NJC, accuses Justice Nyako of bias

Army focused on addressing national security challenges — COAS

IGP approve kits, uniforms for officers

NGF chairman Abdulrazaq visits Niger over petrol tanker explosion

Presidency denies forcing Buhari to testify in Paris court

NCDC confirms 54 Lassa fever cases, 10 deaths

Nigeria’s electricity exports hit $112m amid persistent power outage

Lokpobiri directs NMDPRA to investigate petrol tanker explosion in Niger

NAFDAC seals Abuja pharmacy, arrests two over sale of expired drugs

Minister approves slots for youth leaders in presidential planning committee

95% bank debtors borrowed from MFBs in 2024 – CBN

SMEDAN plans N1bn conditional grant

Cybercrime Act failed to protect Nigerian journalists – Report

N’Assembly, judiciary employees constitute military reserve force – Report

Nigerians need to stop saying ‘May Nigeria never happen to you’ — Oyedele

Presidential aide seeks integration of NIN with student ID cards

PETROAN blames petrol price hike on crude oil

Nigeria loses $70m annually to outdated fishing laws – Operators

Afrexim Bank’s fund will boost aviation sector – Airlines

PalmPay does not give loans, says CEO

ASUU-LASUED threatens strike, citing poor welfare package, wage irregularity

Ned Nwoko set to dump PDP for APC

Obi, Otti’s c’ttee faults A’Court ruling affirming Abure’s chairmanship

Tribunal dismisses 13 APC petitions, affirm PDP victories in A’Ibom council polls

Soludo vows to give criminals war, launches Operation Udo Ga Achi

Soludo announces N5m reward for intel on kidnappers, armed robbers

Don’t toe Ekpa’s footsteps, Nwifuru warns Ebonyi scholarship beneficiaries

Terrorist attacks displaced 74 households in Chibok – Zulum

LG polls: Aiyedatiwa votes, calls PDP’s withdrawal cowardly act 

I rejected ritual offer to become gov, paid $10,000 compensation – Diri

Delta IGR hits N110bn annually — Commissioner

Katsina flags off pilot phase for electric tricycles

Lagos shuts school after pupil’s death

Lagos punishes hoodlums for defecating on pedestrian bridge

Plateau to prosecute 40 sex workers, cultists

Security operatives kill seven bandits, recover 61 cows in Katsina

One killed in Bayelsa cult war

Father, daughter beheaded over land dispute in Delta

Ogun husband arrested for bathing wife with hot oil


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1966, Indira Gandhi became India’s first female prime minister. She was assassinated on October 31, 1984.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. – Margaret Fuller

Good morning

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