SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 19/12/2024

Parents besiege hospitals as many children die in Oyo funfair stampede

FG plans to improve power supply with $750m World Bank loan

Death-for-fowl: Adeleke orders probe, clemency for convict

Controversial ‘Jesus is not God’ banner removed from Lekki mosque following backlash

PSC promotes over 8,000 police officers

Landing cost of petrol drops to N970 per litre — Marketers

Bid round: NNPCL loses as TotalEnergies, others win oil blocks

NBS confirms hack of newly redesigned website

Poland seeks to curtail asylum rights amid migrant pressure

UK inflation climbs further as families struggle with living cost

Niger Republic repatriates 310 Nigerians

‘You’re All Reelected,’ Tinubu Tells Lawmakers After Addressing Them As 11th Assembly


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Nigeria’s Zenith Bank decorates Ajose Adeogun Street on Victoria Island, Lagos, with beautiful and shimmering lights to celebrate the Christmas and New Year. The bank has maintained this tradition for the past 18 years
  • Every year, Norway sends a home-grown Christmas tree to London, where it is decorated with lights in Trafalgar Square. Standing a towering 20m tall, the terrific tree is a gift to say thank you for the help the UK gave Norway during World War II.

Tinubu arrives Lagos for Yuletide

FG plans N13tn loan as Tinubu presents N49.7tn 2025 budget

Unemployment will be tackled head-on in 2025, Tinubu assures youth

Tinubu reconstitutes leadership of 12 river basin devt authorities

AGF to meet Senate panel on tax reform bills today

2024 Budget Will Be Extended To June 2025 –Akpabio

Akpabio tasks heads of MDAs on prompt response to NASS’ invitation

Reps express satisfaction with President Bola Tinubu’s N47.9 trn 2025 budget

Court orders Interior Minister, NIS to ensure passport issuance within six weeks

Army acquires 43 drones, wings 46 Turkey-trained personnel

FG earmarks N250bn for Lagos-Abuja rail project in 2025 budget

Debt Servicing To Gulp N15.8trn As Tinubu Presents 2025 Budget

2025 Budget: FG earmarks N4.91tn for defence, security

Women Affairs Minister mourns victims of Islamic school stampede in Oyo

FG exempts cooking gas importers from duty payment

CNG conversion centres hit 170

NBS website hacked, bureau warns against fake reports

NAFDAC shuts 150 shops, seizes N5 bn fake products in Abia market

Out-of-school children: UBEC to boost school-based management committees

Internet users grew by 1.88 million in October – NCC

Diaspora remittances rose by 61% – CBN

Customs promote 1,419 junior officers

Fire destroys 126 shops in Niger markets — NEMA

NUC approves 10 new programmes for Kwara varsity

Tinubu’s wife empowers 250 Anambra elderly with N200,000 each

9mobile apologises for service downtime, cites fire, vandalism

NNPCL misrepresented facts on $1bn investment – Dangote

Contractual differences slowed Bodo-Bonny road project – Julius Berger

Divestment: Renaissance gets ministerial consent for Shell’s $1.3bn assets

Edo poll: Okpebholo demands dismissal of Ighodalo’s petition

2025 budget unrealistic, anti-people — PDP

Saraki, Plateau gov, N’Central bigwigs demand PDP chairman’s slot

Stampede: Organisers of Oyo children funfair arrested, says Makinde

We will explore AfCFTA benefits to grow economy, says Makinde

Jigawa governor sacks special assistant on gender

Opposition behind resurgence of violence in Kano– Yusuf

Kano gov promises new jobs for sacked cabinet members

Edo LG chairmen fault suspension, Okpebholo orders probe

Drama as Edo committee storms tribunal to recover vehicle conveying PDP lawyers

Kano resolves N4bn student debt, secures certificates

Kano landowners get January deadline to renew C-of-O

Lagos taskforce arrests 15 minors, 12 adults for street begging

Power restored to C’River LG after 15-year outage

Papa Ajasco meets Tinubu at Lagos Airport


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • Nigerian president, Olusegun Obasanjo, ordered the Nigerian Armed forces to raid the town of Odi, Rivers State, in response to the murder of 12 policemen by local militia.
  • On this day in 2012, Park Geun-hye, the first female President of South Korea was elected. She became the eleventh President of South Korea and also the first female head of state in Northeast Asia.

Ultimately what you do is secondary. But how you do it is primary. – Eckhart Tolle

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

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