NEWSPAPER HEADLINE Week Jan 15 - Jan 21, 2024
21 Jan
- Nation’s security stretched as bandits wreak havoc across states
- Northern youths kick against calls for investigation of Matawalle
- Deconstructing myriads of challenges facing education sector in Nigeria
- Embrace modern entrepreneurship with online visibility for your business
21 Jan
- Emirates created by Ganduje’ll be revisited – Kwankwaso
- AFCON 2023: What’s your assessment of the Super Eagles’ performances so far?
- Take a lot of fluid to enable your kidneys function well – Experts
- 2023 polls: You’re good to go, Supreme Court tells 6 govs
21 Jan
- 2027:OPPOSITION MULLS BUHARI'S 2015 STYLE
- DHQ: We're gathering intelligence, increasing surveillance on kidnappers
- Explosion rocks Agip facility, as Ogoni experiences oil spill
- Aviation: €67m radar system for upgrade, 13 years aftet
21 Jan
- Kidnappers spread tentacles
- EDO GOV PRIMARY: APC NWC wades in, voids screening of aspirants
- Stop approval of more universities, Afe Babalola tells NASS
- Victim with fractured skull requires brain surgery
21 Jan
- Despite SIM-NIN Linkage, Insecurity Worsens
- Katsina residents turn to ox-driven carts, donkeys, bicycles to cut transportation cost
- Silent crisis: Exposing gender based violence among internally displaced women and girls
- After S/Court verdict: Gov Yusuf’s battle to justify Kano masses’ faith begins
21 Jan
- Electricity Subsidy: Flawed Tariff Assumptions, Public Welfarism And A Dying Industry
- How Project Gazelle Is Explored To Ensure FOREX Inflow, Naira Stability’
- Tinubu Seeks Financing Mechanism, Equitable Capital Market Access For Developing Countrie
- Rivers Communities Raise Alarm Over Fresh Oil Spill From SPDC Pipeline
21 Jan
- Despite Security Deployments, Kidnappings Continue
- My Challenges As Olu Jacob’s Wife – Joke Silva
- AFCON 2023: Bounedjah Scores Late To Salvage Draw For Algeria Against Burkina Faso
- ECOWAS Commends Sierra Leone For Letting Ex-President Koroma Travel
21 Jan
- Amaechi Counsels Nigerians Not to Flee the Country, Says Enormous Opportunities Abound
- Akpabio: It’ll Be Abnormal for Me Not to Have APC Produce Akwa Ibom Gov in 2027
- Marketers Await Commercial Terms for Lifting Products from 650,000bpd Dangote Refiner
- FCT: Police Parade 29 Kidnappers, Other Criminals Arrested in Bwari
21 Jan
- Nigerian politicians prioritise high life above governance
- Time to deploy tech against insecurity scourge –Nigerians
- Economic crunch: More Nigerians still vulnerable despite palliatives
- Losing faith in the Judiciary will not do Nigeria any good - Egwu
20 Jan
- Applicants In States Face Multiple Challenges
- Kwankwaso Insists On Revisitation Of Kano Emirates Issue
- Police Nab Kidnapper In FCT As NSCDC Foils Kidnap Of Pupils In Kwara
- Attempted Coup: NAF Jet Ferries Ex-Sierra Leonean Leader To Abuja
20 Jan
- My dad was pulled from AFCON 2023 retirement to head ICPC due to his incorruptibility
- Ibadan explosion survivors recount harrowing experiences
- Tension in Benue community as bandits kill 2 soldiers, 2 others
- Wike approves 2 Police Divisions for Gwagwalada Area Council
20 Jan
- 2023 polls: You’re good to go, Supreme Court tells 6 govs
- AFCON 2023: What’s your assessment of the Super Eagles’ performances so far?
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20 Jan
- Kwankwaso: Kano Govt to Revisit Issue of Five Emirate Councils
- Insecurity Festers in FCT, Gunshots as 3 Abducted at Estate Despite Special Intervention Squad
- All Eyes on CBN as It Schedules MPC Meetings without Quorum of Committee
- Archbishop Adewale Martins: Killings, Insecurity Escalating in Nigeria Because Perpetrators are Not Punished
20 Jan
- Wives Associations, Standing Tall, Filling Gender Gap
- Women Still Suffer Exclusion When It Comes To Access To Land And Other Natural Resources’
- Fresh Tension In Kano Over Plan To Revisit Sanusi's Dethronement
- Governorship Tussle: Supreme Court Affirms Election Victories Of Six Govs
20 Jan
- Miyetti Allah’s security outfit invitation to anarchy —Middle Belt leaders
- Supreme Court affirms election of Ogun, Gombe, Delta, Kaduna, Nasarawa, Kebbi governors
- Dangote Refinery begins registration of product distributors
- We’ll come after you, Wike promises Kidnappers
20 Jan
- Meet ex-inmates who turned a new leaf
- With Netflix, other streaming sites, Kannywood’s problem solved – Naziru Dan Hajiya
- First Jos gaspowered tricycle rider shares experience
- S/Court affirms Nasarawa, Gombe, Delta, 3 other govs’ elections
19 Jan
- Police Rescue Abuja Resident after Gun Battle with Kidnappers
- Nasarawa in Sombre Mood as S/Court Delivers Governorship Judgment Today
- NG-CARES: 35 States, FCT Get N210bn Reimbursement
- S/Eagles Back on Track for Second Round after Downing Hosts
19 Jan
- FG slaps Emefiele with 14 more charges
- S'Court upholds Gombe Gov's election victory, PDP knows fate today
- Justice ministry to tackle FG's priority areas
- Sokoto govt retrieves 70 vehicles from ex state officials
19 Jan
- DisCos to now buy electricity directly from producers
- At 22.90%, Nigeria’s stock market offers world’s best return
- Nigerians buy more noodles as rice gets pricier
- Nigeria break jinx in Cote d’Ivoire AFCON group win
19 Jan
- Shettima: We’re Not in Davos to Beg, But Dialogue on Equal Terms
- Five More Governors Know Fate Today as Supreme Court Delivers Judgments
- Lokpobiri: FG Ready to Immediately Approve Shell’s $2.8bn Deal with Oil Consortium
- Ighodalo Pledges to Position Edo to Tap from $17trn Global Idle Capital
19 Jan
- It’s Judgement Day For Sule, Fubara, Oborevwori
- AFCON: Super Eagles Bounce Back, Beat Cote d’Ivoire 1-0
- Emefiele To Be Arraigned On 20-count Charge Today
- LEADERSHIP AWARD TESTAMENT OF OUR CORE VALUES – OLUSOLA
19 Jan
- How poor planning, corruption ruin N200b school feeding initiative in states
- States tighten noose on mining as Ibadan explosion death toll now five
- Shettima urges African leaders to ramp up continent’s $3.1tr GDP
- Over 100,000 unarmed Nigerians killed in eight years, says report
19 Jan
- Olukoyede: EFCC investigators taking bribes, compromising corruption fight
- Pension Assets: Investments in fixed deposit hit N1.213trn
- 2024:FG to spend N1.6trn on electricity subsidy for consumers
- FG mulls automatic employment for First Class graduate
19 Jan
- With 20-count amended charge, court stops Emefiele from travelling abroad
- NIMC, NCC team up with security agencies to track kidnappers
- One killed, over 70 houses set ablaze in Kogi communal clash
- AFCON: Super Eagles down Elephants of Cote D’Iovire
19 Jan
- Dollar sells for N1,355 at black market
- Army uncovers reservoirs with 3m litres of crude oil in Rivers
- Days after CBN depts move: FG relocates FAAN to Lagos
- FG’s revenue-generating agencies feeding fat on collections – Adio
19 Jan
- EFCC files 20-count amended charge against Emefiele
- Supreme Court to deliver judgment in 13 gov cases today
- Anyaoku opens centre to promote reading culture, research in Anambra
- AFCON: Nigeria defeats host Cote d’Ivoire
18 Jan
- Ibadan Explosion: FEC Directs Review of Laws on Explosives
- Kidnapping: FG Warns against ‘Crowd-funding’ for Victims Ransom
- CBN Expends $2bn to Clear Forex Backlog in Three Sectors
- Niger Boat Mishap: Divers Recover 8 Bodies, Rescue 11, 12 Missing
18 Jan
- Wike: We Must Stop Paying Ransom to Kidnappers, Bandits
- Federal Court Quashes Regulation Empowering NBC to Fine Broadcast Media
- CBN Uncovers Gross Violations of Market Regulations, Vows Sanctions
- Kyari Links High Cost of Crude Oil Production in Nigeria to Insecurity, Others
18 Jan
- Wike: We Must Stop Paying Ransom to Kidnappers, Bandits
- Federal Court Quashes Regulation Empowering NBC to Fine Broadcast Media
- CBN Uncovers Gross Violations of Market Regulations, Vows Sanctions
- Kyari Links High Cost of Crude Oil Production in Nigeria to Insecurity, Others
18 Jan
- Anguish as massive explosion leaves Ibadan in ruins, tears, blood
- FG talks tough on Abuja kidnappings
- NiMet to present 2024 seasonal climate prediction Feb 20
- NAFDAC rolls out palliatives to support MSMEs in ease of doing business
18 Jan
- IOCs’ exit deals to test Tinubu’s investment drive
- OPay celebrates remarkable achievements in 2023 and unveils ambitious plans for 2024
- Nigeria among top destinations for greenfield project pledges in Africa
- Nigeria eyes Eurobond issuance, $1.5bn from W’Bank
18 Jan
- Doubt Trails January Student Loan Takeoff
- 9,734 Persons Killed, 4,067 Others Abducted In 2023 – Report
- Northern Elders Reject Relocation Of CBN ‘Key Departments’ To Lagos
- Bye-elections: INEC Releases Final List Of Candidates
18 Jan
- Outrage as Ibadan explosion exposes illegal mining, weak regulations
- Without security, we have no business in govt, says Wike
- Nigeria may borrow more to sustain DisCos, GenCos as NERC adjusts tariff
- Naira falls to N1,320/$ amid uncertainty over MPC status
18 Jan
- Kidnapping: Crowdfunding for ransom, payment unlawful –FG
- Forex: CBN hires forensic firm to checkmate transaction abuses
- EXTERNAL RESERVES TO HIT $34BN BY END OF 2024'
- OPEC: Nigeria most increased oil production member for December
18 Jan
- FG declares ransom payment illegal, warns against crowdfunding
- FG needs N1.6trn to subsidise electricity in 2024, NERC reviews tariff
- Ibadan explosion: Tinubu sets up c’ttee to review laws on explosives
- CBN tackles FX transactions abuses in clearing liabilities backlog
18 Jan
- Security agencies infiltrated by fifth columnists – Plateau gov
- How illegal miners’ explosives wreaked havoc in Ibadan
- Residents flee 10 Zamfara communities after bandits’ threats
- Stop raising ransom for bandits, FG tells Nigerians
18 Jan
- Victims recount ordeal, 58 houses damaged, foreigners listed as owners of mining company
- NERC approves electricity tariff increase for DisCos, retains subsidy
- Kyari: Fuel subsidy removal has eliminated cross-border smuggling of oil products
- CBN unearths FX transaction abuses in clearing liabilities backlog
17 Jan
- Rising Insecurity Disturbing, Ungodly, Sinister, Says Tinubu
- N438m Contract: Tunji-Ojo Fails to Appear before CCB Investigators
- Abductors of LG Chairman, Orderly, Two others Demand N50m
- FAAC Disburses N1.35trn Revenue to FG, States, LGCs — NBS
17 Jan
- How Nigeria can attract more investments, achieve economic growth in 2024 –Rewane
- Shell to sell Nigerian onshore subsidiary, SPDC, for $1.3bn
- Nigeria's stocks market sustains gaining streak, up N1.82trn P.? Insecurity: Tinubu vows to root out all agents of darkness S'Court reserves judgments in Nasarawa, Kebbi states Gov'ship election Footwear Training: FG plans to improve skilled youth workforce How Nigeria can attract more investments,
- Insecurity: Tinubu vows to root out all agents of darkness
17 Jan
- Tinubu, Wike, Service Chiefs Brainstorm On Crisis
- Trump Sweeps Iowa Caucus Ahead Of 2024 Race
- 80 Rescued, 12 Confirmed Dead In Niger Boat Mishap
- Cancel Domestic Crude Oil Allocation To Ease Forex Supply – Agora Policy
17 Jan
- Shell Strikes Landmark Deal to Sell All Onshore Nigerian Oil Assets for $2.8bn
- FG: Cutting Budgetary Expenditure Not Feasible Option for Nigeria Now
- Tinubu: Buhari Courageously Took Over Power When Terrorism Peaked in 2015
- Atiku Faults NNPCL Planned Private Sector Operatorship of Port Harcourt Refinery
17 Jan
- Kidnap plague threatens Tinubu’s food security plan
- Nigerians resort to herbal concoctions on rising cost of drug
- Shell’s $2.4bn asset sale spotlights local firms
- CBN in silent mode as naira slide spreads pain
17 Jan
- Pandemonium as massive explosion rocks Ibadan
- Tinubu meets security chiefs, says kidnapping, banditry ungodly
- GOVT ISSUES 13 NEW POWER GENERATION, DISTRIBUTION LICENCES
- Revenue: FG to earn N771.5bn from port levies in 2024
17 Jan
- We’ll wipe out every agent of darkness, Tinubu tells Nigerians
- Edo 2024: APC settles for direct primary, rules out zoning
- Nigeria gets $14m grant for polio eradication
- NPC Ltd uncovers 83 illegal refineries, 15 pipelines in 7 day
17 Jan
- NSA’s Office commits N32bn to new buildings
- Residents feared dead, buildings destroyed as explosion rocks Ibadan
- S/Court reserves judgment in Nasarawa, Kebbi gov’ship disputes
- Insecurity: Bandits abduct 17 in Niger
17 Jan
- Explosion rocks section of Ibadan
- Why I didn’t sack Emefiele —Buhari
- Like Buhari, I have adopted policy of non-interference —Tinubu
- Fiscal federalism, restructuring important for good governance —Makinde
17 Jan
- FG opts for conditional divestment as oil majors trade $4.5b assets
- FG’s order on border closure still in force, says Customs
- State police, restructuring, security agencies panacea to kidnappings, others
- Political class, security chiefs promise action on killings, abduction epidemic
16 Jan
- NNPCL Begins Search for Private Operators for Refurbished Port Harcourt Refinery
- At Armed Forces Day, Tinubu, Other Leaders Honour Nation's Fallen Heroes
- Higher Food, Energy Prices Pushed Inflation Further to 28.92% in Dec
- Makinde: Oyo Will Take Advantage of New Electricity Law to Improve Power Supply
16 Jan
- Outrage as kidnappers raise ransom on abducted sisters to N700m
- Nigeria's inflation hits 28.92 per cent amid high food cost
- How gains in manufacturing, banking stocks lifted equities market by
- NNPC seeks private companies to operate P/Harcourt refinery
16 Jan
- N438m contract: Interior minister faces CCB today
- 5 bodies recovered, scores missing as boat carrying 100 capsizes in Niger
- Residents flee as bandits attack military camp in Katsina
- Armed Forces Remembrance Day: Tinubu, Akpabio, govs honour fallen heroes
16 Jan
- Nigeria’s problem is low exports, not high imports
- Inflation nears 30% as uncertainty clouds MPC meeting
- Here’re analysts stock picks for 2024
- Atiku, Obi, Kwankwaso have agreed to join forces – Utomi
16 Jan
- FCT Residents Blame Security Agencies
- President, Governors, Lawmakers Pay Tributes To Fallen Heroes
- Supreme Court: Nasarawa APC, PDP Sign Peace Deal
- Detained Vessel: 23 Arrested, Tinubu Orders Probe, Hails Tantita
16 Jan
- Nigerian Legion:Nation needs more soldiers to combat insecurity
- Year 2023 closed with higher food inflation figure of 28.9% –NBS
- OPERATIONS: NNPC LTD TO ENGAGE MAINTENANCE FIRM FOR PORT HARCOURT REFINERY
- CBN: Banks’ credit to economy drops by 1.15% to N64.9trn
16 Jan
- Abuja kidnappers jerk ransom to N700m
- Armed Forces day: Akpabio, lawan, govs, seek better welfare for living heroes
- APC, Buhari hail first party national chair Akande at 85
- FCTA staff protest perm sec posting by head of service
16 Jan
- Adelabu unfolds road map for power sector, says FG spent N700bn on electricity subsidy in 2023
- List of new Oyo State Park Management State Executives on pages 18 to 24
- Nigeria’s inflation rate hit 28.92% in December —NBS
- EFCC arrests ex-minister Charles Ugwuh, one other for alleged N3.6bn loan fraud
16 Jan
- FG strained to meet 650m barrels target over crude-backed loans
- Tinubu leads Armed Forces Remembrance Day celebration
- FG’s N35,000 wage award remains till new minimum wage, NLC declares
- Nigeria’s inflation ends 2023 at 28.9% as naira anxiety worsens outlook
15 Jan
- Anxiety as CBN Moves 1,533 Personnel out of Abuja
- School Feeding: Kogi Sacks 111 Cooks over Alleged Fraud
- NiMet Predicts Three-day Dust Haze from Monday
- Dangote Says Refinery, Game Changer as Production Begins
15 Jan
- Three charts show Nigeria is not import-dependen
- Tech-driven drug supply to boost health sector growth
- FG says borrowing from CBN won’t violate law
- Otedola, Oando boss laud Dangote as refinery goes live
15 Jan
- Tinubu's Minister, Buhari's cronies panic as Edun's panel begins probe
- How Dangote Refinery output will impact FX market, rising inflation
- Equities market extends weekly bullish run as investors gain N1.85trn
- How Dangote Refinery output will impact FX market, rising inflation
15 Jan
- Mixed Reactions as Nigerians Crowdfund Ransom to Rescue Family of Six Abuja Captives
- Presidency: We Won’t Spare Anyone Found Culpable in Humanitarian Ministry Scandal
- PDP Heads to NJC over Appeal Court Verdict Ousting Plateau Lawmakers
- FG Expresses Concern over Incessant Attacks on Power Assets
15 Jan
- 2024 Budget:NASS approves N4.3bn as personnel cost for moribund Ajaokuta Steel Coy
- We'll continue to defend democracy, says CD
- Foreign reserves' depletion cuts LC payments to $1.14bn –CBN
- Report:Nigeria to lose more multinationals as operating costs worsen
15 Jan
- Concerns, outrage over kidnapped 6 Al-Kadiryar girls
- s/Court: We never traded off Kano with NNPP, says APC
- Nigeria double digit inflation to remain at average of 23.47% in 2024 – Adedipe
- Bankers, stakeholders applaud CBN on headquarters’ decongestion
15 Jan
- Concern As Pantami Raises Ransom For Victims
- Kingmakers Reject Deposition Of Kogi Monarch
- Armed Forces Day: PAGE 6 We Won’t Compromise Nigeria's Unity – Akpabio
- Detained Vessel: We Loaded 119 Tonnes Of Crude Oil – Captain
15 Jan
- N10tr legacy industries rot away amid low earnings, unemployment
- President Tinubu, stop corruption before it kills Nigeria
- I spent N500m defending my election, says Abia federal lawmaker
- How age restriction worsens nation’s unemployment crisis
15 Jan
- Bandits hold 5 sisters after killing 1 in Abuja
- Airlines’ trapped funds: Pressure mounts despite $61m release
- 100 days of war on Gaza: Israel kills 23,968 Palestinians
- S/Eagles avoid upset against Equatorial Guinea
15 Jan
- PDP, APC set to clash in Plateau
- How Dangote Refinery exposed Nigeria’s shipping inadequacies
- LIRS affirms January 31 deadline for employers to submit annual tax returns
- Controversy trails alleged plan of foreign airlines to pull out of Nigeria