SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 24/05/2025

Emefiele’s 753 duplexes: FG to sell houses to low, middle-income Nigerians

Marketers kick as P’Harcourt refinery faces shutdown for maintenance

Driving against traffic not enough for police to kill my 13-year-old son– Grieving father

1,593 Nigerians Killed In Road Crashes In 3 Months

Ground Rents: FCTA begins take-over of PDP Secretariat, INEC, CBN, NNPC lands Monday

Napoli crowned champions of Italian Serie A

Israeli strikes kill 16 in Gaza

Trump fires new 50% tariff threat at EU, drawing stiff response

Judge temporarily halts Trump block on foreign students at Harvard

South Africa rescues all 260 miners stuck underground alive

ECOWAS, Sahel Bloc begin talks on formal exit, security cooperation

Dabiri-Erewa, minister, celebrate 12-year-old Nigerian diaspora inventor, Eniola Shokunbi

13-yr-old swimmer Michelle Ibidapo wins gold at National Sports Festival


DID YOU KNOW?

  • The word ‘Android’ literally means a human with a male robot appearance. The female equivalent of this word is a ‘Gynoid.’
  • Earth is the only planet not named after a god.

Tinubu hails new Owa Obokun of Ijeshaland

Owa Obokun: Tinubu approves rehabilitation of Ilesa/Ife/Ibadan expressway 

Senate passes bill establishing FMC in Southern Kaduna

Supreme Court strikes 36 states’ suit against FG over recovered loot

FG summons: Natasha’s lawyers promise defence with ‘factual evidence’

12 Filipinos jailed for cybercrime in Nigeria

Military raids bandit camp in Plateau, kills one

2025 UTME: DSS, police arrest 20 for hacking results

DSS gives businessman accidentally shot during operation free medicals, N20m

Sit-At-Home Order Losing Grip In S/East – Ribadu

IGP disburses over N2.8billion in insurance to families of fallen officers

Nigeria turning the tide against insecurity – Badaru

FG to demolish old MMIA terminal, plans new structure — Keyamo

FG vows to strengthen domestic carriers

Airlines airlifting passengers without entry visas to be sanctioned – Tunji-Ojo

FG, UNESCO partner to tackle AI misuse, deepfakes on social media — Minister 

Student loan disbursement hits N54.2bn

Plateau set to become tech hub, as FG, state partner to empower youth

States, INEC reject calls to scrap state electoral commissions

Defection to APC won’t stop trial of corrupt governors – FG

‎Aviation contributes $1.7bn to Nigeria’s GDP – FAAN

Two injured as training aircraft crash-lands at Ilorin airport

Forest Security Service honours six, pledges to fight bandits

Nigerians spent $2m on medical tourism in 2024 – Report

FCTA to takeover 4,794 Abuja property over unpaid ground rent

Jonathan, Attah, others win NCDMB award

NUC re-accredits all 25 KWASU undergraduate programmes

UNILORIN unions slam FG over N50bn allowance

New ASUU President Piwuna assumes office, decries state of education sector

ASUU urges FG to address outstanding demands

Arewa youths hail Tinubu over Danfulani’s appointment as NAIC boss

MSF treats 5,076 babies free, as malnutrition cases rise in Kano

Anambra NBA to boycott court sittings over lawyer’s death

Hunters warn against politicising forest guards recruitment

Avoid second #EndSARS, Amnesty tells police

Power firms’ loans rise to N1.77tn

SEEPCO converts 90% fleet to CNG, plants 25,000 trees

Dangote, Niger govt unveil rice project

Edo host communities’ 110,634 residents benefit from Seplat eye treatments

I have no presidential ambition in 2027 – Yahaya Bello

Ex-APC presidential aspirant berates NWC, govs for endorsing Tinubu

Aregbesola Hosts Atiku As Opposition Consolidates Ahead 2027

2027 election results have been written, democracy is gone — Sowore

Peter Obi, Okaro, others attend Nkechi Nweje burial ceremony

Delta Reps member defects to APC

PDP crisis: Saraki-led reconciliation committee members visit Gov Mbah

Defect with me or resign, A’Ibom gov tells appointees

Ibas, senators seek effective prosecution of oil thieves, digital surveillance

We’ll Reject Scrapping Of State Electoral Commissions – Gov Sule

Plateau gov lifts mining ban for 159 cleared operators

Lagos debunks alleged tenancy law amendment

Ondo begins major waterway clearing to prevent floods

Ogwashi Uku monarch flags off construction of mother and child clinic

Fulani herdsmen must vacate farmlands, Benue monarchs tell govt

Truck kills WASSCE candidate in Ogun

Ondo man jailed 14yrs for raping stepdaughter

Kaduna housewife feeds co-wife’s baby acid

Pregnant Ogun women flee to Benin Republic as healthcare crumbles

Rivers pirates demand N100m for abducted WASSCE candidates


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1970, engineers began drilling the world’s deepest hole. The Kola Superdeep Borehole had reached the unsurpassed depth of 12,262 meters (40,230 feet) before the project was abandoned due to a lack of funding.

Adversity introduces a man to himself. – Albert Einstein

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

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