SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 28/02/2025

Consumers kick as FG plans fresh power tariff hike

NLC shelves protest as subscribers welcome 35% tariff hike

Ramadan: Sultan alerts Muslims on moon, Bauchi, Kebbi schools shut

Mass Wedding: Kebbi pays N54m dowry for 300 couples

Closure of Onitsha drug market: Traders sue NAFDAC, SON, NSCDC for N1bn

Obasa presides over Lagos Assembly plenary with four lawmakers

Lagos lawmakers reject Obasa, insist Meranda remains speaker

Mourinho gets four-match ban for ‘monkeys’ and referee criticism

Trump voices respect for Zelensky, downplays ‘dictator’ jibe

USAID: US cuts foreign aid contracts by over 90%

UK received 108,138 asylum applications in 2024 – Report

Israeli army admits failure on Oct 7, says it underestimated Hamas

Nigeria, Saudi Arabia sign pact to tap into $7.7trn halal economy

Nigerian passengers stranded in Togo after Air France flight diversion


DID YOU KNOW?

  • In 1988, British-American author, Salman Rushdie, published “The Satanic Verses,” a controversial novel about Prophet Muhammad’s life. The book was banned in some Muslim countries and triggered several assassination attempts on Rushdie. In Iran, the leaders issued a fatwa, or religious ruling, calling for Rushdie’s death. And an Iranian foundation reportedly still offers a $3.3 million bounty for killing him.
  • Sex releases endorphins and oxytocin, which can help you feel relaxed and take your mind off everyday worries.

Tinubu celebrates renowned educator Mama Ajibola on 100th birthday

Nigeria set to adopt successful global models for growth, Tinubu tells Airtel Boss

Natasha threatens to expose Akpabio as group petitions Senate

Lagos lecturer gets life jail for raping student

Dismissed Adamawa REC’s lawyer jailed for contempt

I rejected N500m offers during my mother’s burial – EFCC chair

EFCC arrests 19 suspected internet fraudsters in Benin

ICPC warns public servants against leaking classified documents, fraud, others

FG, states, LGs share N1.7tn January revenue

FG targets $100bn GDP boost from creative industries growth – Minister

FG Owing GenCos, DisCos N4trn – Minister

Climate change threatens food system, says minister

Continuous teacher development essential for national progress, says Alausa

Telecom tariff hike necessary to save jobs, economy – Tijani 

Minister inaugurates roads in Rivers, commends NDDC

Retired low-income earners to get living wage – PenCom

Inheritance tax not reintroduced in tax bills, says Oyedele

FCCPC asks MultiChoice to suspend price hike pending investigation

Fed Govt sets up special committee to tackle boat mishaps

Fake drugs: NAFDAC reopens Abia markets, Afenifere urges DG’s protection

NAFDAC sensitises Kano stakeholders to verification device in N’West

RMAFC condemns states’ failure to implement pay guidelines

FCT-IRS rakes over N43.8 billion in January

ASUU declares indefinite strike, shuts Sokoto varsity

Wigwe University appoints Justice Augie Pro-Chancellor

NANS elects new president, vows to resist tuition hike

Transcorp Hotels profit rises by 138%

Lafarge Africa doubles profit to N100bn

Nestlé pays $20m forex debt

Tanker drivers resume fuel loading in Lagos

Fuel importers face N75bn monthly loss after Dangote price cut

Scrabble Federation appoints six zonal youth coordinators

LED billboard owners struggling with high energy cost – OAAN

Buhari moves to Kaduna after 20 months in Daura

IBB should allow Vatsa rest after killing him for alleged coup – Family

Atiku condemns Tinubu’s silence on Lagos assembly crisis

APGA sets N30m for Anambra gov form

Lagos Assembly: Obasa returns as Akande, Osoba panel’s intervention collapses

Kano gov suspends acting Head of Service over workers’ salary deductions

Rivers crisis: Fubara questions INEC’s neutrality

Makinde, other govs attend Oyo monarch mother’s burial

A’Ibom gov mediates oil firm, host community dispute

Sanwo-Olu unveils Charterhouse $150m campus in Lagos

Oyebanji mourns as driver dies, others injured in govt bus crash

Aiyedatiwa warns appointees against corruption, laziness

Obasa apologises to DSS over assault on men by Lagos Assembly officials

Police restore Meranda’s security detail, explain withdrawal

Kogi secures $500m World Bank fund for education, healthcare

Bauchi votes N7.5bn to renovate primary healthcare centres

Kano commissioner insists 160 ‘ghost’ workers in water board, staff begin strike

Kwara distributes 73,364 textbooks, sports kits to pupils

Kano probes workers’ salary underpayment

Kano Govt To Tinubu: Remove The Emir You Enthroned And Kept In Graveyard

LASIEC gears up for LG poll, inspects offices

Rivers monarch opposes market closure over funeral rites

Policemen reject N1m bribe, arrest Imo child traffickers

Driver handed abducted Oyo corper to kidnappers – Sister

Tension as 30-year-old cultist stoned to death in Bayelsa

Abductors of Makurdi varsity female students demand N40m ransom


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1935, nylon was invented. Wallace Carothers first produced the polymer at the DuPont Experimental Station in Wilmington, Delaware, United States.

Don’t look back unless it’s a good view. – Tupac Shakur

Good morning

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

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