SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 24/04/2025

Oborevwori, Okowa defect to APC with entire Delta PDP

Killings: Governors meet in Abuja today

INEC moves to legalise voting without PVC

NiMet workers’ strike disrupts flights, FG meets unions today

Dangote, Mikano, 103 others get FG’s tax waivers

Air Peace Suspends Flight Operations Nationwide Over NIMET Strike 

Marwa insists on drug tests for corps members

Zamfara Assembly in crisis as parallel sittings emerge

Kano ‘healing water’ site demolished over fraud fears — Hisbah

Lagos LG chair aspirant withdraws for Obasa’s son

Thousands pay tributes at Pope Francis’ body’s public viewing

ECOWAS to relocate Mali, Niger, Burkina Faso offices

US indicts Nigerian for $690k scam, false citizenship claim


DID YOU KNOW?

  • A Molotov cocktail, also known as a petrol bomb, is a hand-thrown incendiary weapon consisting of a frangible container filled with flammable substances and equipped with a wick. The wick is lit and the weapon is thrown, shattering and exploding on impact. It was named after Vyacheslav Molotov, a leading diplomat in the Soviet Union from the 1920s to 1950s.
  • The shortest war in history, the Anglo-Zanzibar war, lasted 38 minutes.

Killings: Tinubu demands fresh security blueprint from intelligence chiefs

End Killings Now, Speakers Tell FG, Governors

Reps vow to tackle outdated maritime laws

Africa needs accurate data to develop, Jimoh Ibrahim tells World Bank

$2bn crude-for-loan: AGF promises Kyari probe amid rising protests

Court orders 54 banks to return N9.3bn stolen by hackers

Jude Okoye, Psquare’s elder brother, released from Ikoyi prison after N1.3bn fraud charge

40-year-old woman to face trial for raping Bauchi boy

Tinubu issues fresh security directives, says ‘enough is enough’ – Ribadu

Collateral damage: NAF donates cash, boreholes to affected families, communities

NSCDC detains officers accused of N5.2m extortion

Minister, others advocate mandatory female running mates for presidents, govs

Lokpobiri urges more Nigerians to acquire IOCs onshore assets

Applicants can access $25m from cabotage fund – Oyetola

FG eyes N1.2tn from bond market in Q2

PenCom recovers N1.58b from defaulting employer

Rice most seized commodity in Q1 – Customs

2,030,627 candidates to write UTME from Thursday

Nigeria to host first AfCFTA Hackathon

Minna designated as alternate airport to Abuja

FG moves to handover N5bn 10MW Katsina Windfarm to state govt

FG clean energy initiative targets 3m women

NiMet union grounds weather services in Abuja, PH, Kano, Enugu airports

Wike questions Julius Berger over alleged contract breach

Wike hails Okowa, Delta Governor over defection to APC

Suspected cultists shoot YABATECH student dead

Nursing students mourn classmate found dead in Cross River drainage

Your reforms inflict hunger, poverty on masses, NLC tells IMF delegation

Ijaw youths demand pipeline surveillance contract

UBA posts N189.8bn profit in Q1

MTN Nigeria eyes 12% GDP contribution

Bago, Overland Airways boss hail President on airport upgrade

Delta signs MoU with Xenergi to develop Kwale gas eco-industrial park

FX reforms, interest rate hike trigger Fitch Ratings credit upgrade

2027 power shift: Opposition weakens as more PDP govs, senators eye APC

Anti-party activities: Atiku, Wike should leave PDP immediately — Bode George

Malami, El-Rufai can’t speak for CPC, says forum

Kano Senator Sumaila dumps NNPP, rejoins APC

Osun Rep member Oke quits PDP

Chidoka endorses Soludo for re-election

Insecurity: Yobe remains one of the peaceful state in the country, says Gov Buni 

Niger: Ban on motorcycles, tricycles not to punish citizens, says Bago

Niger gov backtracks on dreadlocks ban

Rivers protesters testing my will, Ibas warns

Delta gov lauds OFAAC for showcasing Anioma cultural heritage

Diri, Lokpobiri, PANDEF celebrate Bayelsa monarch at 90

Ogun supported fish farmers with N2.2bn – Abiodun

Zamfara factional Assembly rejects 2025 budget

Katsina Govt dedicates 30% of budget to climate action

Easter tragedy: Gombe donates N2m each to bereaved families

Lagos to eliminate malaria in 2027, says Health commissioner 

Ojo, Ejirin general hospitals begin operations soon – LASG

Two killed, 20 farms destroyed in fresh Plateau attack

Kwara seeks identification of lifeless body recovered from Asa River

Council chairman escapes bandit attack in Sokoto village

Police detain prime suspects in Niger over vigilante member’s death

Mother seeks N22m for daughter suffering chronic kidney disease


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1968, Czechoslovakia imposed military sanctions and suspended arms shipment to both the Republic of Biafra and the Nigerian government during the Civil War.
  • On this day in 2013, 1129 people died in Bangladesh in the worst building collapse disaster in modern history. The building was used by clothing factories producing garments for western markets, highlighting the disastrous working conditions in the industry.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. – Albert Einstein

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

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