SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 27/02/2025

COAS increase troops’ feeding allowance to N3,000 daily

Again, Dangote Refinery slashes petrol price to N860/litre in Lagos

Nigeria’s oil production potential now 2.24mbpd – NUPRC

Naira rises to N1,490/$ in parallel market

Immigration arrests 378 illegal immigrants in Ogun

NAFDAC seizes N1tr worth of fake drugs in Lagos, Anambra, Abia

B’Haram abducts two, loots homes in Borno attack

Breast cancer cases to surge by 38% by 2050 worldwide, WHO warns

Ukraine can ‘forget about’ joining NATO, says Trump

US to remove transgender soldiers from military 

Tunisian jailed for life in France for stabbing 3 to death

FG seeks collaboration with Gambia on maritime security


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Alfred Nobel, a Swedish chemist, engineer and industrialist invented dynamite and other more powerful explosives. He invented many other things such as artificial silk and leather, and went on to register more than 350 patents in various countries. He is also famed for establishing the Nobel, the world’s most prestigious prizes for intellectual services rendered to humanity.
  • In Thailand, orange is traditionally associated with Thursday, and many people wear this colour on Thursdays.

205 Colleges of Education not enough, says Speaker

Reps direct Wike to appoint substantive Auditor-General

Reps committee invites FAAN’s CEO over alleged abuse of concessions

Case transfer: Nnamdi Kanu reports Abuja chief judge to CJN

Court refuses to recuse itself from Emefiele’s trial

N1.3bn alleged fraud: EFCC arraigns P-Square’s ex-manager Jude Okoye

Alleged N868.4m fraud: Ex-acting AG-F seeks to enter one more plea bargain

Alleged assault on DSS officers: Court remands 3 Lagos Assembly workers

Niger, others’ exit from ECOWAS affecting counter-insurgency war – Air chief

17 arrested for plotting violent protests in Kano

Foreigners forming criminal cells in Nigerian cities – EFCC chair

FG wants NNPCL, Dangote refinery listed on NGX

FG gives contractor 15 months to complete Enugu-Onitsha road rehabilitation

Abia, Ondo, others get UBEC’s N27.8bn education fund

Fed Govt terminates payment of states’ liabilities

Fed Govt trains 6,000 teachers in AI pedagogy

Umahi pushes for cement price reduction

USAID-donated drugs found in Lagos, Abia markets — NAFDAC

Tax reform shouldn’t subsume Customs, CG Adeniyi cautions

Customs intercept 2,433kg of cannabis on Lagos waterways

Concerns as forex reserves drop $2.3bn amid naira gains

FCCPC begins action on high cost of diabetes, BP medications

FG unveils 990kW mini-grid to power 3,900 households in Niger community

Fed Govt unveils electronic extension platform to boost farming, others

Why IOCs can’t allocate enough crude to refiners – FG

NLNG decries attacks on gas pipelines

CNG will reduce transportation costs – FG

Made-in-Nigeria helicopter ready soon, says NASENI engineer

Benue varsity shut as gunmen abduct four female students

First Lady distributes empowerment tools to 500 women in Niger

Unstable electricity hindering industrialisation in Nigeria – Dangote

Stanbic IBTC, Autochek to disburse N100bn for car loans

GTCO distributes 3,000 gas cylinders in Ogun community

NASFAT set to hold 30th anniversary

Fasoranti is Afenifere leader, says spokesman

APC NEC: Buhari, Osinbajo, Amaechi absent as Tinubu woos aggrieved members

APC NEC passes vote of confidence on Tinubu, Ganduje, PGF

Election cases: APC accounts seized over N8.9bn debts, says Ganduje

Mbah, Wabara present as PDP S’East zonal congress holds

Diri empowers 2,850 trainees, honours past govs

Sanwo-Olu hails choice of Lagos for ‘Move Afrika’ concert

Bodija explosion victims will get relief soon – Makinde

Osun crisis: Adeleke denies changing LG accounts signatories

Kogi gov flags off industrial park construction

Aiyedatiwa signs MoU for N15b investment in agriculture

Aiyedatiwa upgrades Ondo poly to agric varsity

OGITECH: Gov Abiodun splashes N6m on best graduating students

Ondo Assembly confirms two for commissioners, approves 10 SAs for governor

Lagos Assembly: Pro-Obasa clerk denied entry, threatens contempt suit

Kwara creates two new ministries

Gombe donates 50 vehicles to security agencies

Tolling of Epe-Mojoda-Ijebu-Ode Expressway begins March 24, says Ogun agency

Kano unveils 11 buses to transport students

Lagos, private sector begin exchange programme for workers

Sokoto: Hisbah Resolves 260 Marital Conflicts In 3 Months

Ogoni women reject proposed resumption of oil extraction in Ogoniland

2 Police Officers Killed In Gun Duel With Kidnappers In Plateau

Five mourners killed, 20 missing in Delta boat collision

Body of slain teenager disappears from Lagos morgue

21-year-old jailed six months for stealing fowl in Ogun


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1932, the neutron was discovered. English physicist James Chadwick was later awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery.
  • On this day in 1943, non-violent protests in Berlin prevented the deportation of 2000 Jews. The “Rosenstrasse protest” was carried out by the “Aryan” wives and relatives of detained Jewish men.

When a person really desires something, all the universe conspires to help that person to realize his dream. – Paulo Coelho

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

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