NEWSPAPER HEADLINE Week Jan 01 - Jan 07, 2025
07 Jan
- Device Goes Off in Abuja School, Kills One, Injures Four
- NSITF to Widen Reach to Informal Economy in 2025, Says MD
- 2025 Budget: Reps Appropriations C’ttee to Lay Report Jan 31
- Lassa Fever: nCdC, experts advocate Hygiene, early Treatment
07 Jan
- THISDAY Lifetime Achievement Awards Finalised By Board of Editors
- Appropriation Bill: Senate to Suspend Plenary for Two Weeks
- Nigeria Finally Meets OPEC Quota, Lokpobiri Credits Tinubu for Increased Oil Output
- Economy: Orji Kalu Hails Tinubu for Ignoring IMF, W’Bank Recommendations
07 Jan
- Growing Concern Over 4 Quality Of Private Schools
- No Conflict Between Emir Of Ilorin, Kwara Governor – Palace
- Budget Defence: Reps Read Riot Act To Ministers, Others
- Onion Farmers Blame Price Hike, Scarcity On Flood, Climate Change
07 Jan
- LG: Court orders Okpebholo, House to maintain status quo
- 80 bandits killed in Katsina as hoodlums levy Zamfara communities
- Have I really crossed the line?’ Obi queries, alleges threat to life
- Lassa fever: NCDC, experts raise alarm, advocate prevention, early treatment
07 Jan
- 2 killed in Abuja school bombing
- B/Haram attacks military base, kills soldiers, vigilantes in Borno
- Cut corporate taxes to 19%, NACCIMA tells Tinubu
- Disengaged staff sue CBN, demand compensation
07 Jan
- Airlines miss out on Detty December windfall
- States’ failure worsens Nigeria’s jobless crisis
- ATM queues disappear as PoS withdrawals surge 77%
- Oil firms bank on less bureaucracy to raise output
07 Jan
- New Year message: My life under threat, Obi alleges
- ISWAP raids Borno military base, six soldiers feared killed
- Ibadan stampede: Justice must be done —Makinde
- KPMG Banking Industry Survey: UBA emerges top 5 in customer experience
07 Jan
- We wrote 6 govs, only Uba Sani, Sanwo-Olu met us
- I killed Okada rider, sold machine for N310,000 in Niger – Suspect
- 2025 budget: PRESIDENTIAL C’TTEE ON TAX REFORMS: Senate to suspend plenary for 2 weeks on resumption
- Abuja school explosion kills 2 students, injures 4
07 Jan
- Banditry: Niger gov issues bomb alert, urges farmers to stay away from farms
- DATA OUTAGE: CONCERNS MOUNT OVER INACCESSIBILITY OF NBS' WEBSITE
- Sen Kalu: Tinubu right to have ignored IMF, World Bank recommendations
- HOW FAMILY PLANNING PREVENTS STUNTED GROWTH –AAFP
06 Jan
- Fresh agitation trails states’ poor execution of new minimum wage
- Tinubu hails Mbah for repositioning Enugu for economic growth
- Terrorists kill Miyetti Allah chairman, three others in Katsina
- Insurgencies, insecurity to end in 2025, CDS tells personnel
06 Jan
- LND seeks South’s backing to form national party
- Remittances from abroad shore up naira, boost exchange rate
- How ‘Detty December’ defied Nigeria’s economic crisis
- Importers seek quarterly exchange rate regime, duty waiver to revive trade
06 Jan
- Your choice of presidential candidates undermining democracy
- NDLEA nabs ex-convict in Rivers, recovers 316,800 bottles of codeine
- Five persons die in Delta tanker explosion, banks, houses burnt
- We’re turning brain drain to brain gain in health sector – FG
06 Jan
- 2027: Northern bloc plans to register with INEC
- nsecurity: We may engage local arms manufacturers –CDS
- CBN: Non-oil export earnings up 25.3% to $6.03bn
- PDP’ll produce more govs, take Aso Rock in 2027 –NWC
05 Jan
- AMAA’s Expanding Role In The Black Creative Industry Is Real, Says Raymond Osigwe
- PUBLIC HEALTH, ENVIRONMENT SUFFER AMID THRIVING INFORMAL RECYCLING SYSTEM
- NAPTIP Arrests Notorious Dubai-based Human Trafficker
- #2027Watch:Mass Transit Reproach On Nigeria
05 Jan
- What we want from Tinubu, govs in 2025 - Nigerians
- NFF to name foreign coach for Super Eagles in few days
- Omokri to Obi: You lack moral rectitude to criticise Tinubu’s economic policies
- Equity market sustains growth trend, gains N247bn
05 Jan
- Doctor catches cancer from patient in firstof-a-kind case
- NLC, TUC TO FG: Workers expect pro-human policies this year
- Youths block highway as gunmen kill 2 farmers in Kogi
- Nigerians spent N11.5 billion to watch movies at cinemas in 2024
05 Jan
- How 15 People Were Killed In Jigawa Communal Clash – Residents
- Tax Bills: Tinubu Must Listen To Criticisms – Kwankwaso
- CN Confirms FCT Blackout, Begins Power Rationing Monday
- CN Confirms FCT Blackout, Begins Power Rationing Monday
05 Jan
- Tinubu in Enugu, Says It’s Time to Unite, Build Nigeria
- CDS to Frontline Troops: Take the Fight to Criminals’ Hideouts, Flush Them Out Completely
- Valuation of GTCO, Nine Other Banks Rises to N7.87tn in 2024 Amid Banking Recapitalisation Drive
- Northern Elders Demand Suspension of Tax Reform Bills
05 Jan
- Inside Kaduna’s peace deal with bandits
- Ajaokuta project too big to be handled by government — Alhaji Magaji Inuwa
- Abuja residents to experience 16-day blackout
- Money, prestige, fame attracting billionaires to football
05 Jan
- LGs Autonomy: Govs afraid of losing political relevance –NULGE President, Olatunj
- True leaders achieve success through humility, foresight, says Shettima
- Tinubu, NGF, others condole with Aiyedatiwa over SSG’s deat
- 2025 Budget over ambitious, unrealistic –LCCI, NES, others
04 Jan
- North’s Almajiri children plead for education
- Let Obas protect their people instead of renting rooms for herders who keep cattle for them —Prof. Toyin Falola
- Nigerians don’t want one-party state, says Makinde
- We are building Nigeria’s very first motorway in Ibadan
04 Jan
- Govs Brace Up For LG Autonomy
- Nasarawa Holds Key To Nigeria’s Food Security Drive – Shettima
- We Did Not Force 1,000 Staff To Retire, Says CBN
- Experts Blame Flight Disruptions On Infrastructure Deficit, VIPs, Others
04 Jan
- What we want from Tinubu, govs in 2025 - Nigerians
- NFF to name foreign coach for Super Eagles in few days
- Equity market sustains growth trend, gains N247bn
- Chinese Foreign Affairs minister to visit Nigeria, Namibia, others January
04 Jan
- FG's reforms creating employment, greater economic prospects
- Democracy under threat from APC, we’re working to dislodge it in 2027
- LG Autonomy: NULGE frowns at six-month implementation delay
- APC plans to remove elected PDP Council Chairmen in Edo –Sources
04 Jan
- Wike to Rivers Elders: I Will Not Apologise to Odili
- Shettima: Nigeria’s Economy Recovering, Anticipates Bumper Harvest in 2025
- Cardoso: 1,000 CBN Staff Exited Voluntarily with Full Benefits
- Court Orders Temporary Seizure of 21 Bank Accounts over Alleged Money Laundering
04 Jan
- Inside Kaduna’s peace deal with bandits
- Ajaokuta project too big to be handled by government — Alhaji Magaji Inuwa
- Money, prestige, fame attracting billionaires to football
- Lakurawa kill 2 policemen, rustle over 200 cows in Kebbi
03 Jan
- NNPCL invites Obasanjo on a tour as he raises issues over refineries
- Northern groups laud FG’s efforts in tackling insecurity in the region
- Ondo gov set to amend chieftaincy declaration of traditional stools
- Estranged husband sets wife’s apartment ablaze in Edo on New Year’s day
03 Jan
- Kalu advocates economic competition among states
- CATHOLIC PRIEST DETAINED FOR SHOOTING MAN DEAD
- FG Returns History To School Curriculum
- How To Start A Successful Finance Blog
03 Jan
- Nigerians long for rewards of economic reforms
- FG rolls out initiatives, targets food security
- Obasanjo, NNPC differ on return of Warri, Port Harcourt refineries
- Kalu advocates economic competition among states
03 Jan
- THISDAY Unveils Winners of Young Global Leaders of Commemoration Awards
- LCCI: Tinubu's New Year Speech Projects Critical Themes Crucial to Nation’s Growth
- Obasanjo Doubts Workability of PH, Warri Refineries Despite NNPC's Announcement
- Court Dismisses Suit Seeking to Compel Fubara to Re-present 2024 Budget
03 Jan
- NNPCL tackles Obasanjo over operational status of Port Harcourt Refinery
- French remarks: Apologise to Nigeria, northern elders, others tell Niger president
- Navy arrested 215 suspects, destroyed 468 illegal sites in 2024 – Official
- Stop blackmail, better days assured under Tinubu, APC replies Obi
03 Jan
- 5 months after, FG yet to implement duty waiver
- Wike allocates N10bn for rent, furniture to Akpabio, Abbas, 2 others
- Obasanjo, NNPCL disagree over refineries
- How 140 policemen died in FCT in 2024 – CP
03 Jan
- Nollywood’s 12-month haul paves way for 2025 success
- Phone financing schemes gain traction on economic crunch
- How NNPC blocked Dangote’s $750m offer for local refineries – Obasanjo
- New routes, aircraft scarcity mark Nigeria’s aviation in 2024
03 Jan
- Sources: How DSS' covert operations ensured peaceful celebrations in S’East, others
- Why telcos are seeking 100% tariff hike, by MTN CEO
- 2024: Value of China's trade surplus with Nigeria up 91.4% to $16.3bn
- Tinubu’sreforms unavoidable, will pay off –Kalu assures Nigerians
02 Jan
- Withdraw tax reform bills, NLC, Kano govt tell Tinubu
- President’s New Year speech not in tandem with realities – PDP, TUC
- Flooding, infl ation, others defi ned agric sector in 2024
- Expect more dividends of democracy this year – Governors
02 Jan
- I have no disagreement with govs —Tinubu
- No hope in sight for Nigerians, PDP reacts to Tinubu’s New Year message
- Tax Reforms: North playing politics —MBF
- 2025 budget: Obi deplores exclusion of North Central Development Commission
02 Jan
- PDP, Obi, Atiku set agenda for Tinubu, better Nigeria in 2025
- Tax bills:N’Central council backs Bauchi gov, urges Tinubu to address concerns
- Police nab 230 robbery, kidnap suspects, secure 128 convictions from 388 cases
- Juvenile trials:Enforcing justice, rehabilitation via reformative process
02 Jan
- Governors Renew Commitment To Good Governance
- Tariff Hikes, Competition, Others May Define ICT Sector In 2025
- Fake Video: Mahdi Shehu Remanded In Prison
- Wike Outlines FCT Achievements, 2025 Plans
02 Jan
- How Nigerian govt secured release of seized $6m arms funds by the US
- Tinubu to govs: We won’t fight, control your LGs, fulfil expectations at grassroots
- NSA lauds security agencies, assures of enhanced security in 2025
- Police apprehend cab driver targeting female passengers in Rivers THURSday 2 January, 2025 1 Rajab, 1446 No. 3, 481 www.blueprint.ng N250 P 1
02 Jan
- ASUU To Tinubu: Poor welfare chasing young, vibrant Nigerians from lecturing
- Expect enhanced security this year, NSA tells Nigerians
- ano rejects Tinubu’s Tax Reform Bills, says it’s ill-timed
- CBN: October consumer credit fell by 17.6% to N3.50trn
02 Jan
- Farmers smile to the bank as onion price jumps 108%
- How fuel, food squeezed families in 2024
- Investors flock to govt debt as rates crowd out firms
- inubu pledges support for manufacturers to lower food, drug prices
01 Jan
- NLC sets 2025 agenda for FG as Tinubu rallies Nigerians for positive prospects
- Issues, personalities that will shape Nigeria’s business sector in 2025
- Market capitalisation adds N21.85trn in 2024
- PDP wants Tinubu, IGP to prevail on Edo govt over LG chairmen’s suspension
01 Jan
- Eyes on key economic indices as Tinubu promises new dawn
- Partial compliance trails part payment of N250b USSD debt as first deadline expires
- Investors made N22tr from Nigerian stock market in 2024 despite firms’ exit
- Gale of defection to ruling party will hurt democracy, CHRICED warns
01 Jan
- Listen to Nigerians, Bauchi gov tells Tinubu
- New Year: Tinubu, Abbas, Atiku, others deliver messages of hope
- Bandits abduct many passengers, burn vehicle in Zamfara
- Prof Aisha emerges UniAbuja VC as 67 senate members kick
01 Jan
- Be hopeful, 2025‘ll be better, Tinubu reassures Nigerians
- Troops neutralised 1,000 terrorists' leaders, 10,937 others in 2024 – DHQ
- Tinubu determined to fix Nigeria’s economy – Akpabio WEDNESDay 1 January, 2025 30 Jumada Akhir, 1446 No. 3,480 www.blueprint.ng N250 P
- NDLEA arrests 1,290 suspects, recovered 4,589.361kg illicit substances in Kaduna
01 Jan
- Don't get distracted by politicians, Tinubu warns Nigerians, declares 2025 year of great promise
- 2024: Nigerian equities investors' returns up 50%, gain N21.85trn
- Nigeria’s population to cross 237m by 2025, UN Report projects
- HOUSING CRISIS: FG UNVEILS N250BN REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT FUND
01 Jan
- Tough and Resilient... President Bola Tinubu is Man of the Year
- Tinubu to Nigerians: Your Sacrifices So Far and in Months Ahead Won’t Be in Vain
- FG Launches N250 Billion Real Estate Investment Fund for Affordable Housing
- Ondo Resident Doctors Begin Indefinite Strike
01 Jan
- Your Sacrifices Won’t Be In Vain– Tinubu
- We'll Bury Terrorists Threatening Nigerians – DHQ
- Tax Bills, Electoral Reforms, Anambra Poll May Shape 2025
- PDP Made You, Damagum Replies Kwankwaso
01 Jan
- Naira stability, lower inflation to shape economy in 2025
- Telcos pin growth hopes on tariff increase in 2025
- NGX closes 2024 with 38% investment retur
- Grid collapse, vandalism mark power sector woes