SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 25/12/2024

FG workers face gloomy Christmas over delayed Dec salaries

Defamation: LPDC declines to disbar Farotimi, activist leaves prison

Ooni’s ex-queen, others to spend Christmas, New Year in Agodi prison

FG partners Bloomberg to boost foreign investment image

We arrested 30,313 suspects, rescued 1,581 kidnap victims in 2024 —Egbetokun

Doctors demand 70-year retirement age in new FEC memo

Edo: Council chairmen resume work as plots to remove them thicken

Fubara approves N100,000 Christmas bonus for civil servants, pensioners

Oyo begins uninterrupted power supply to MDAs

Esu not Satan in Bible, Quran, traditionalists insist

On Christmas Eve, Pope Francis launches holy Jubilee year

NASA probe makes closest ever pass by the Sun


DID YOU KNOW?

  • The first Christmas card was sent in 1843 by a man named Sir Henry Cole in England. It was designed by an artist named John Callcott Horsley and showed a family celebrating together.
  • Boxing Day which is celebrated on December 26 since the 1700s comes from a UK tradition of giving gifts to the poor and working class in boxes.

Christmas: Tinubu, govs, lawmakers assure Nigerians of better economy

Nigerians facing complex security challenges, says Speaker Abbas

Barau Tops Chart Of Private Member Bills Sponsorship In Senate

Farotimi meets bail conditions, leaves prison

Court orders DSS to release Miyetti Allah’s president pending trial

Sharia court inauguration suspended as Makinde intervenes

34 female foreign nationals accused of cybercrime released on bail

COAS visits N’Delta, demands increased crude production

Moribund Ajaokuta Steel workers get N6bn for 2025 salaries

FG budgets N45.2bn for prison repairs, inmates’ welfare

CBN whistleblower platform for inauguration Jan 1

Customs dissolve joint border patrol team

NELFUND gets 1,500 daily loan applications, targets 1.8m students

NCC approves MTN’s spectrum lease renewal with Ntel

Thousands throng Abuja, Lagos parks for Tinubu’s reduced fares

1500/$ benchmark achievable with forex reforms – ABCON

Vitafoam proposes N1.375bn dividend as gross profit hits N30bn

Africa receives 40 new Boeing planes in six months

United Airlines airlifts 175 million Nigerians in 2024

Funke Akindele’s ‘Everybody Loves Jenifa’ hit $100,000 in diaspora sales

US-based Nnewi Union pays N17.8m medical bills of 17 indigent patients

Elumelu donates 1,800 bags of rice to Delta community

Tinubu, GAC, summon truce meeting, reconcile Sanwo-Olu, Obasa

PDP Tackles Tinubu Over Claims In Media Chat

Bayelsa, Enugu govs sign 2025 appropriation bills

Makinde appoints 33 PWDs, 127 others as supervisory councillors

Ibadan explosion: Makinde raises relief disbursement committee

Sokoto gov swears in new commissioners, SAs

Oil Theft: Children, Women Used As Shields At Illegal Refinery Sites – Diri

Otti sets 24 months to complete Abia international airport

Ondo Assembly passes N698.66b 2025 Appropriation Bill

Ondo, Ekiti, others get new police commissioners

LASG set to celebrate Badagry festival

Govt votes N350m to upgrade five Kano cattle markets

Kwara NLC seeks 50% tax cut for workers

Lagos council to rename road after Seyi Tinubu

Oko community celebrates Ofala festival commemorating Ekwueme’s 90th birthday

Abandoned two-year-old boy found at Lagos dumpsite

Kidnappers kill 10-year-old boy in Bauchi after N150,000 ransom


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1989, Romanian President Nicolae Ceaușescu and wife Elena were executed. They were deposed after a revolution and their trial lasted for about an hour and then they were summarily executed by a firing squad.

It is Christmas every time you let God love others through you. – Mother Teresa

Merry Christmas

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

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