SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 26/02/2025

Court exonerates Naira Marley, Sam Larry of Mohbad’s death

JAMB insists on March 8 deadline as over 1.5m apply for UTME

FCCPC summons MultiChoice over planned subscription price hike

Traders sue NAFDAC, SON for Onitsha drug market closure, allege theft

Plot against Murtala Muhammed started from Day 1 —IBB

Lagos Assembly Crisis: Meranda Poised To Resign As Party Leaders Settle For New Speaker

One-third of Elon Musk’s DOGE staff resign in protest

Ex-Brazil president Dilma Roussef hospitalised in China

Kemi Badenoch slams Trump’s Ukraine peace plan, says it rewards Putin

UK, Nigeria missing as US releases eligible countries for visa waiver programme

FG inaugurates Nigeria-Korea information access centre, eyes digital job growth


DID YOU KNOW?

  • The most remote place in the world is the Tristan da Cunha islands in the Southern Atlantic Ocean. They’re 2,434km from Saint Helena, the nearest inhabited place.
  • The only muscle that never tires is the heart. If you live to age 70, your heart will have beat around 2.5 billion times!

Tinubu presides over APC National Caucus meeting

Tax Reform Bills will drive Nigeria toward $1trillion economy – Senate

N30trn Ways and Means: Senate panel accuses CBN of frustrating probe

Senate refers Senator Natasha to Ethics Committee for probe

Senate backs Akpabio as Natasha files N100.3bn defamation suit

Reps propose alternative funding for security agencies

Prosecute illegal drug dealers, re-open Onitsha market, Southeast Reps caucus tells NAFDAC

Gas dispute: NLNG may pay $380m to Vitol, Glencore

EFCC arraigns 16 more Chinese for cyberterrorism

Mohbad withdrew assault complaints against Naira Marley before death – DPP

Army determined to end terrorism, says COAS

Nigeria’s W’Bank debt may hit $9.2bn as FG eyes six loans

Ribadu denies 2031 presidential bid, Presidency knocks El-Rufai

FG secures foreign funds for Lagos-Calabar coastal highway

Fed Govt partners Ekiti farm to enhance food security

Nigeria hosts first ITU summit as FG pledges $2bn for digital infrastructure

Visa-on-arrival policy not scrapped — Tunji-Ojo

Keyamo admits funds paucity in tackling aviation challenges

El-Rufai hurt over ministerial snub, says Onanuga

Customs Withdraws 4% Import Charges

Nigeria can surpass $1trn GDP target, says NNPCL boss Kyari

Terrorists exploit socio-political vulnerability to remain relevant, says NCTC boss

Fed Govt unveils minimum standards for senior secondary school education 

FGN bond auction records N1.63tn subscriptions

FG orders RMAFC to fast-track revenue allocation formula review

NBS: GDP grew by 3.84 percent in Q4 2024

Ecobank, firm eye $700bn global furniture market

Transcorp Power targets 25% of Nigeria’s electricity generation

Operators kick as 15% port charge hike begins March 1

S’East stakeholders demand Nnamdi Kanu’s release, establishment of human rights bureau

June 12 annulment: Falana vows legal action against IBB over 1993 detention

Tinubu govt not marginalising Muslims, APC tells Shari’ah council

APC dismisses anti-Ganduje plot as El-Rufai absent from NEC meeting

Anambra guber: APC rakes in N350m from sales of nomination forms 

Gov pledges promotion of Igbo language, culture in Abia

Okpebholo cries for protection as 24 killed in Edo violence

Imo Assembly pardons, recalls four suspended members

Kwara screens 5,290 applicants for 1,800 teaching jobs

Obasa awaiting ruling before returning to Assembly – Lawyer

52 arraigned for environmental offences in Ekiti

LASG begins consultation on Purple Line Rail project

Ekiti LG sponsors 100 UTME candidates

Ogun monarch orders arrest, detention of PUNCHman over trending video

Police Detain Officer Who Shot Immigration Personnel In Niger

Delta family, hospital disagree as father’s corpse disappears from mortuary

Two Ekiti teachers jailed 44 years for raping minors


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1885, in a race to share Africa to European powers, the Berlin conference gave Congo to Belgium and Nigeria to England.
  • On this day in 1991, the world’s first web browser was presented to the public. The browser “WorldWideWeb” (later renamed “Nexus”) was developed by Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist best known as the inventor of the internet.

People who are right most of the time are people who change their minds often. – Jeff Bezos

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

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