SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 29/01/2025

Telecoms 50% tariff hike: Subscribers head for court as NCC talks deadlocked

Imported goods must be cleared in 30 days – Customs

Ramadan: Sultan orders moon-sighting, Jigawa votes N4.8bn for feeding

Presidency fumes as El-Rufai criticises govt, urges opposition to unite

First Lady Tinubu unveils Gov Abdulrazaq’s signature projects in Kwara

Davido launches electric bike line in Africa

Victor Boniface passes Saudi’s Al-Nassr medicals, to earn €15m per season

Trump stops HIV funding for Nigeria, others

ECOWAS: Uncertainty as Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso exit deadline elapses today

Soldiers intercept Niger Republic arms dealers in Zamfara

3,690 Nigerians listed as US mass deportation continues

Nigerian risks life jail in US over teenager’s death

32-year-old Nigerian dies during childbirth in UK


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Cuba’s Fidel Castro was instrumental in Angola’s struggle for independence in 1975 by supplying 36, 000 fighters with weapons in 1970 to support the People Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA).
  • The first person selected as the Time Magazine Man of the Year was Charles Lindbergh in 1927.

Tinubu returns after Dar-es-Salam energy summit

$3bn power investment to benefit 23m Nigerians – Tinubu

‘Resolve differences’ – Tinubu tells Fubara at 50

Energy Infrastructure Vandalism Now A National Emergency, Shettima Raises Alarm

Reps Speaker faults census delay, plans to meet Tinubu

Senate threatens arrest of HYPREP boss over Ogoni clean-up funds

Rep denies requesting N480m to approve varsities’ 2025 budgets

Nnamdi Kanu slams N20b libel suit against police spokesperson, Adejobi

Police arraign Sowore today for calling Egbetokun ‘illegal IG’

Debt: Sterling Bank petitions IG over court ruling violations

Mohbad’s father urges police to summon late son’s brother, wife

1,088 arrested for financial crimes, $11m, N142bn recovered – Police

Police bust syndicate supplying motorcycles to Boko Haram in Niger, Kaduna

EFCC returns recovered Abuja land documents to fraud victims

Nigeria’s real estate to hit $2.25tn in 2025 – FG

CBN waives 2025 license renewal fee for BDC operators

Heavy sanctions for FX code breaches, CBN warns banks

FG targets 25% reduction on cost of port operations – Oyetola

We’ll release report containing all illegal air charter operators soon — Keyamo

FG approves 25-year licence for 10 gas distribution companies

FG eyes $3bn from single window for trade processes

355,726 rights violations complaints received in December — NHRC

Govt earned N12bn from data protection in 2024 – NDPC

1,000 Kwara traders get Remi Tinubu’s N50m grant

Turkish Airlines resumes flights to Benghazi

Missing luggage: Passenger sues Virgin Atlantic for N26m

United Airlines: US probes Washington-bound flight

FUT Minna graduates 5,826 students, 119 bag first-class

MOUAU VC urges fresh students to shun cultism

UNILAG radiography graduates stranded over accreditation crisis

I’m not leaving APC, El-Rufai declares

El-Rufai practised tyranny while in power, says Shehu Sani

Adebanjo-led Afenifere canvasses Nnamdi Kanu’s release

NEC, disputed secretary’s seat top as PDP BoT meets today

Atiku: Nigeria On Verge Of Losing Democracy

Opposition tackles Atiku over alleged N50m APC bribe

Peter Obi makes U-turn, says he’s not against coalition

Edo poll: PDP alleges irregularities in 765 polling units

You were broke, Wike bankrolled your election, Dogara tells Bauchi gov

PDP knocks Aiyedatiwa as lawmakers get N200m for phone calls

Office privileges, power won’t change me – Fubara

280-bed space Ojo General Hospital ready December – Sanwo-Olu

Okpebholo approves 21-year jail term for cultists

Adeleke unveils plans for content creation studio in Osun

Abiodun kicks as group launches Ogun Sharia court, invites litigants

Bauchi gov swears in eight new special advisers

Gov Mbah, Wabara, Senators Absent As S’East Stakeholders Pass Confidence Vote On Anyanwu

C’River gov unveils initiative to empower retired civil servants

Zamfara Assembly dismisses lawmaker, declares seat vacant over absenteeism

Akwa-Ibom govt, family mum on death of deputy gov’s daughter

Edo deputy gov denies rift with Okpebholo

Borno outstanding entrepreneurs to get N300,000 grants

Ex-gov candidate sues Anambra over illegal recertification, revalidation levy

Katsina to employ 300 health workers to tackle shortages

Ondo to spend N12bn on child, maternal mortality

Catholic priest distributes 100 sewing machines, 20 bikes, cash grants in Ebonyi

Enugu man arrested for cutting wife’s wrist over alleged infidelity

Two die, five injured in Lagos building collapse


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1886, German engineer Carl Benz, patented the first modern automobile. His “Benz Patent-Motorwagen Nummer 1” was the first gasoline-driven car.

Success is nothing more than a few simple disciplines, practiced every day. – Jim Rohn

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