NEWSPAPER HEADLINE Week Feb 01 - Feb 07, 2024
07 Feb
- FG Convenes Emergency Meeting to Address Rising Food Prices
- Cardoso: Nigerians Spent $40 Billion in 10 Years on Foreign Education, Medical Tourism
- Tinubu: No Room for Celebration Until Military Ends Insecurity, Returns to Nigeria
- FG: Why Some Pharmaceutical Firms Left Nigeria
07 Feb
- Senate Summons Economic Team Over Hardship
- I Deeply Appreciate LEADERSHIP Award – Gerawa
- Alleged N80bn Fraud: Kogi Kicks As EFCC Includes Bello In Charges
- Names Of INTELS Directors Missing On CAC Website
07 Feb
- Nigerians Spend $30bn on Foreign Education, Medicals in 10 Years
- Akinola Urges Huge Investment to Unlock Trillion-dollar Blue Economy
- Enugu Residents Bemoan High Cost of Drinking Wate
- Armed Herdsmen Kill Scores in Three Benue Communities
07 Feb
- Why Naira is on free fall-CBN gov
- Tinubu’s Finance team in NASS, defends high cost of living, resolves to address inflation
- World Bank worries over high global food prices
- We’ll hold service providers accountable for service delivery
07 Feb
- Cardoso’s FX reforms deliver record $844m single-day trade
- Nigeria struggles to close 7-million metering gap
- Subsidy back as naira slide spares petrol price
- Nigeria’s 5G subscriptions jump eightfold in six months
07 Feb
- Inflation, price hike push an egg a-day diet beyond Nigerians’ reach
- Naira free fall:CBN blames rising number of Nigerians schooling abroad, medical tourism
- NNPCL spends N267.98b on security as oil operators struggle
- MOUAU shuts down, orders immediate vacation of students from campus
07 Feb
- Forex volatility may drive fuel pump price to over N800
- Intensify efforts at stemming multidimensional insecurity
- NAIRA CLOSES WEAKER ON OFFICIAL MARKET, CRASHES TO N1,433.89/$1
- Banks’ credit to government up 36.5% to N9.01trn
07 Feb
- Foreign education, medical tourism killing Naira – Cardoso
- INEC issues certificate of return to 3 senators, 15 reps, others today
- Tinubu returns, as FG unlocks storage facilities to arrest food scarcity
- Power outage: Our husbands no longer touch us over heat – Rivers women
07 Feb
- House of Reps wants action to end hunger
- Dad accused of defi ling 8-month-old daughter remanded
- Excessive taxation on telcos counterproductive – NCC
- 17 feared dead in attacks on Benue communities
07 Feb
- Nigerians spent $40bn on foreign education, medical treatment in 10 years —CBN gov
- Gbajabiamila, Ribadu, ministers meet, say govt will unlock food in storage facilities
- Economic hardship: PDP tackles APC over claims opposition behind protests
- Rising poverty endangers Nigeria’s existence —SMBLF
06 Feb
- Economic hardship triggers protest in Niger
- Data protection industry created 10,000 jobs in 2023 –NDPC
- Terrorism: Court denies Fubara's loyalists bail
- NAFDAC raises alarm on fake oxytocin injections in circulation
06 Feb
- FG Expresses Concern over Rising Cost of Living, Protest in Minna
- AfDB Ready to Disburse $540 Million SAPZs Fund to States
- Buckingham Palace Says Britain’s King Charles Diagnosed with Cancer
- Bank Directors Back CBN's Reforms Initiatives, Urge Industry Compliance
06 Feb
- Protests Erupt in Minna over High Cost of Foodstuffs
- Kidnappers Seize Passengers on Two Abuja-bound Buses
- Mutfwang Relaxes Curfew in Mangu from 8pm to 7am
- Fidelity Bank Records N101bn Profit as Debts Hit N577bn in 2023
06 Feb
- CBN sets sights on outstanding $2.2 billion FX backlog
- Domestic fuel supply unlikely to tame rising airfares
- Lingering court cases limit Nigeria’s oil sector prospect
- Old problems in power sector keep Nigerians in darknes
06 Feb
- Nigeria needs third force, counter-terrorism agency to tackle insecurity –Expert
- Cardoso: New MPC to focus on price stability, inflation
- NBS: ELECTRICITY CONSUMERS IN NIGERIA ROSE TO 11.71M Q3,202
- I'll personally report devastating hunger, starvation to Tinubu
06 Feb
- FG bans alcoholic beverages in small sachets
- Kidnappers swoop on 2 buses in Kogi
- First Lady pledges N.5m each for women farmers, to train 2,960
- Surpass your N5.079trn 2024 target, Senate tells Customs
06 Feb
- Food Cheapest In Nigeria Despite Complaints – Governors
- King Charles Diagnosed With Cancer
- CSOs To EFCC: Name Those Laundering Money For Terrorists
- 15.9m Students Spend N159bn On Mobile Data Monthly
06 Feb
- Building materials, labour spike construction costs by 200%
- Poor citizens protest high cost of living, hardship in Minna, Osun
- EFCC arrests pastor over N1.3b fake grants, money laundering
- Refrain from wild celebrations if S’Africa loses, Nigerian High Commission warns
06 Feb
- Protest rocks Niger over cost of living
- After S/Court victory, Fintiri vows to prosecute suspended Adamawa REC’s allies
- Harsh forex reforms will strengthen naira – Cardoso
- Many passangers abducted on Kogi-Abuja highway
06 Feb
- High cost of living sparks protest
- 14 passengers in two buses travelling to Abuja kidnapped in Kogi
- Entities got more forex allocations than they asked for, CBN gov reveals
- King Charles diagnosed with cancer
05 Feb
- Presidency, Atiku clash over Tinubu's policies
- Northern youths trace insecurity, economic woes to Buhar
- NCAA warns domestic airlines on flight disruptions
- Equities market sustains weekly gains by 1.97 per cent
05 Feb
- Tinubu’s Economic Policies Dash Hopes, Cause Despair, Says Atiku
- Kyari, Tambuwal, Musa Set for Honours at 7th DAILY ASSET Annual Awards
- Lawan Mourns Former Yobe Governor Bukar Ibrahim
- No Plans to Convert Domiciliary Account Holdings into Naira - CBN
05 Feb
- FX crisis reignites questions over NNPC’s dollar remittance
- Stock market bounces back as investors price in earnings
- Violence, irregularities cause suspension of by-elections in four states
- Tinubu’s economic policies dashing hopes, creating pain – Atiku
05 Feb
- Cardoso: $2.4bn FX Claims Not Valid, $2.3bn Settled, $2.2bn Outstanding
- S&P Global Affirms Nigeria’s Credit Outlook Remains Stable at ‘B-/B'
- Atiku: Tinubu’s Economic Policies Uninformed, Creating Pains, Despair
- Wigwe University Says Home Students Will Pay in Naira, Explains Dollar Fees
05 Feb
- Nigerians Struggle With Fake Foods, Products
- Abducted Ekiti Pupils, Teachers Regain Freedom
- Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim Is Dead
- APC, PDP, NNPP Win Rerun, Bye-election Seats In States
05 Feb
- Duty increase, spot FX rate adoption throw market into panic
- World Cancer Day: High cost of care worsens epidemic, 78,899 death toll yearly
- Abducted Ekiti State schoolchildren, teachers regain freedom, driver killed
- Kidnapping epidemic: A failure of intelligence, action at federal capita
05 Feb
- Niger's exit from ECOWAS'll affect regional fight against terrorism –Rtd Gen
- Nigeria's doctor/patient ratio worsening as 900 medics migrate yearly –Ministe
- Customers' deposits in 7 banks hit N24trn in 2023
- NCAA: 53% OF FLIGHTS OPERATED IN NIGERIA IN 2023 DELAYED, AIRLINES TO BE SANCTIONED
05 Feb
- Terrorists attack Yobe collation centre, kill 2
- 200,000 youth to acquire skills in W/Bank IDEAS project
- Solid minerals: $20bn UK, Saudi Arabia, Turkey investments coming – Investor
- Presidency blasts Atiku, says ex-VP new opposition-in chief
05 Feb
- Teenager killed as Customs officials chase smugglers
- CBN investigator’s past stalks Tinubu’s assignment
- Darkness in major cities as national grid collapses
- Nigeria fails to meet oil production targets in 10yrs
05 Feb
- Economic challenges: Presidency, Atiku in war of words
- Police parade suspected killer of Ekiti monarchs
- Cancer killed over 500,000 Africans in 2022 —WHO
- How unstable exchange rate affects importers, cargoes at ports
04 Feb
- Japa: No Easy Life For Nigerians In Europe – Belgian Official
- Import Duty Rises 48.49% As CBN Adjust Customs Exchange Rate Again
- Cancer Patients Continue To Die With Little Or No Treatment
- Bandits Kidnap 53, Kill 3 Escorting Bride In Katsina
04 Feb
- Insecurity: Nowhere to hide
- What next for MC Oluomo after exit from Lagos NURTW?
- Kenya banks on West Africa to grow tourism number
- Super Sunday: Arsenal welcomes Liverpool to Emirates Stadium
04 Feb
- FG Shoots Down Report of Plans to Convert $30bn Domiciliary Accounts to Naira
- APC Wins House Seats in Lagos, Ondo, Cross River as INEC Suspends Elections in Akwa Ibom, Enugu, Kano
- ECOWAS: Don’t Endanger Our Age-long Bonds of Fraternity, Niger Republic Tells Nigeria
- US Confirms Sale of 12 Attack Helicopters, Others to Nigeria for $1bn
04 Feb
- Rerun/Bye-elections: Voter Apathy, Violence Mar Polls
- Tinubu Plans Executive Order To Address Soaring Medicine Costs, Minister Reveals
- Foreign Airlines’ $600m Backlog Still Trapped In Commercial Banks – Keyamo
- Our Abuja, Tinubu And Northern Elite (2)/INSIDESTUFF
04 Feb
- CONFUSION, APATHY, MAR PROCESS
- Crude import from US’ll spike product cost for Nigerians –IPMAN
- 2027: G-5 ex-gov disowns Ortom over Tinubu
- Tantita, NILDS, BBBF, ERISCO elated
04 Feb
- Anxiety As voters elect GbAjAbiAmilA, UmAhi, others’ replAcement
- cp igwe assumes duty, warns criminals to leave Fct
- eyes on nass as women arise over insecurity
- 'Appoint sam nda-isaiah’s brother solomon sA entertainmen
04 Feb
- Forex crisis pushes hajj fare to N4.9m
- Bandits abduct 55 wedding guests in Katsina
- FG tracks social media content creators, influencers
- Nigerians to pay more for goods as FG raises cargo clearance rate
04 Feb
- Killings, kidnapping in S’West turning into terrorism
- Irregularities, vote-buying, ballot-snatching mar rerun elections across states
- Intending pilgrims to pay more as Hajj fares rise from N2.9m to N4.8m
- After contributing N7m, kidnappers insist on N15m
03 Feb
- DHQ talks tough, strategises against Nigeria’s insecurity
- I spent my first music earnings on 'sex workers
- My theatre background prepared me for success as OAP
- N 2023: Super Eagles sends Angola home, books semi-final ticke
03 Feb
- In Move to Further Stabilise Market, CBN Reviews Banks’ CRR Framework
- Senegal, Nigeria Extol Dangote over Industrialist's Massive Investments Propelling Africa's Devt
- NUPRC: Ongoing IOCs' Assets Divestment to Local Firms Not Yet Complete, Undergoing Due Diligence
- Super Eagles Soar into AFCON Semifinal, Defeat Angola 1-0
03 Feb
- Parties Face Voters Amid Economic Hardship
- Relief For Banks As CBN Stops Daily CRR Deductions
- FG To Grant Waivers For Employment Of Health Workers
- Police Search For Killers Of Kwara Monarch
03 Feb
- Re-run/Bye-elections: DSS, Police Pledge Adequate Security
- Worries As CBN Raises Customs Duty Exchange Rate To N1, 356.883/$
- Mining Development: Nigeria, U.S. Explore Areas Of Strategic Partnership
- World Cancer Day: Expert Tasks Govt On Free Mammogram Programme For Early Detection
03 Feb
- Sanwo-Olu, Mbah, Diri, others renew faith in Nigeria
- How my dad became very rich doing business with Europeans
- We're committed to ending terrorism, banditry, kidnapping
- MERCY KILLING A painless death from an incurable disease
03 Feb
- Anxiety As voters elect GbAjAbiAMilA, UMAhi, others’ replacement
- Troops kill 185 terrorists, arrest 212 others
- How North-east lawmaker aids, sponsors bandits, kidnappers – Investigation
- eyes on NASS as women arise over insecurity
03 Feb
- Joy undiluted as Super Eagles soar into AFCON semi-finals
- Day British boxer stunned Dambe spectators in Katsina
- Rumbling in Kano APC, NNPP over Ganduje’s olive branch to Kwankwaso, Gov Yusuf
- Hijab sign of freedom, not oppression – Muslim women
03 Feb
- Sultan, Emir, others express shock over killing of obas
- 2018 Offa robbery: Drama as police arrest witness in court
- 32-yr-old pregnant mother of 9 arrested for killing owner of stolen plantains
- Oyo govt suspends traditional ruler over alleged links to illegal miners
02 Feb
- Naira finds some relief as markets digest CBN actions
- Okonjo-Iweala, others stress need for value addition in Nigeria
- Inflation, FX crises put Nigerian-used cars out of reach
- Business activity hits 13-month high amid naira weakness
02 Feb
- Governors demand state police amidst spike in killings, kidnappings
- NiMet urges collaboration on climate change adaptation
- Atiku flays FG's directive to NNPCL to remit oil sale proceeds to CBN
- N109bn fraud: I was tricked by EFCC to indict myself –Ex AGF
02 Feb
- Again Suspected Herdsmen Invade Benue Community, Kill 15
- PDP Governors Visit Mutfwang over killings, Donate N100m
- Akpabio, Others Extol Cardinal Onaiyekan at 80
- Ministry of Finance Urges Staff to Embrace Digitalization, Innovation
02 Feb
- Dollar Falls in Parallel Market to N1350/$, Official Rate at NAFEX Window Holds at N1,461
- $2.4bn Oil Assets Sale: Shell Says Role of SPDC JV in Remediation of N’Delta Environment Unchanged
- Despite Clarification, Atiku Insists Letting CBN Take over Oil Sale Receipts Violates NNPCL’s Legal Statu
- Decentralising Security is Solution to Nation’s Insecurity, PDP Govs Maintain
02 Feb
- Again, Student Loan Misses January Deadline
- Nigeria Vs Angola: Peseiro Plays Down Favourite Tag
- Kidnappers Demand Food Items, N290m To Release FCT Hostage
- LEADERSHIP AWARD WILL SPUR ME TO DO MORE – NATASHA
02 Feb
- Over 120 extortion points double travel time, travellers’ pains in S'East
- FG decries miners’ N2tr debt, illegal operators
- Bandits abduct director near military base as report cites rising impact of insecurity
- Nigerians sell their relatives as low as N30,000 to traffickers, NGO reveals
02 Feb
- Nigerians groan amid helplessness
- Glamour, glitz as New Telegraph holds 2023 Awards
- CBN: Lenders' credit to economy up 48.2% to N96.19trn
- FDIS: UNITED STATES' INVESTMENT IN NIGERIA TOTALS $5.6BN
02 Feb
- Don’t pitch North against other regions
- even months not enough to fix Nigeria, FG tells citizens
- Nigeria: ‘Global cut in rates by central banks’ll ensure foreign investors’ return
- APC to establish youth, women, physically challenged secretariats – Ganduje
02 Feb
- Parents lament, IGP moves AIG to Ekiti
- INEC excludes PDP from Saturday rerun in Plateau
- Benue community boils again, 15 bodies recovered, several victims missing
- Gunmen abduct Federal Housing Authority director in Abuja
02 Feb
- Nigerians decry rising cost of living
- Gaza: NSCIA asks ICJ to halt genocide against Palestinians
- Ekiti abduction: ‘Our children left without food, beaten by captors
- Ahead Saturday’s by-election, Plateau PDP protests omission on ballot
01 Feb
- Religious Sect Launders Money for Terrorists, EFCC Reveals
- Senate Summons Cardoso as Naira Falls 1,500 to Dollar
- Global Growth Steady at 3.1% in 2024 – IMF
- Benue APC Shuns Peace Move, Suspends State Chairman
01 Feb
- EFCC indicts religious bodies for terrorism, money laundering
- Court orders arrest of Rivers Chief of Staff over burnt assembly complex
- Wike insists on May 29 take-off date for Abuja light rail
- Palliative: Reps order Fire Service to refund N48bn to FG
01 Feb
- No Negotiation With Bandits, North West Governors Vow
- Binani Loses, Supreme Court Affirms Fintiri’s Election
- 2 Courts Give Conflicting Orders Over Arrest Of Fubara's Chief Of Staff
- 2 Courts Give Conflicting Orders Over Arrest Of Fubara's Chief Of Staff
01 Feb
- Anger, misery rise across Nigeria as naira freefall worsens
- Gas shortage casts doubt on $25bn Nigeria Morocco pipeline
- FG’s debt service-torevenue ratio hits 4-year low
- NNPC pays N140.55bn for Oando-branded retail stations, jetty, others
01 Feb
- CBN Unfolds Measures to Boost FX Supply, Mitigate Foreign Currency Speculation
- Keyamo: We are Going Ahead with FAAN’s Relocation
- Lokpobiri Confirms Negotiations to End $1.3bn OML 245 Dispute
- Femi Otedola Emerges Chairman of FBN Holdings
01 Feb
- NEF, Ohanaeze, CSOs angry over Tinubu’s private trip to Paris
- Naira drops to 1,400/$ at official market
- CSOs to Tinubu: Niger, Mali, B/Faso’s exit from ECOWAS poses security threat
- First Bank Holdings appoints Otedola board chairman
01 Feb
- EFCC probing Nigeria Air deal –Keyamo
- Terrorism Financing: N30bn laundered, N7bn traced to religious organisation –EFCC
- enate summons CBN Gov over worsening economy, free fall of naira
- Otudeko to get 2 board seats after withdrawing all court cases
01 Feb
- EFCC uncovers religious sect laundering N7bn for terrorists
- Police nab 3 yahoo suspects for defrauding Kaduna varsity students N60m
- Rivers crisis: Court orders arrest of Fubara’s CoS Ehie, 5 others
- Senate summons CBN Gov Cardoso as Naira plummet
01 Feb
- Senate summons CBN gov on state of economy
- EFCC uncovers religious body laundering money for terrorists
- Femi Otedola named board chairman of FBN Holding
- Supreme Court dismisses Binani’s appeal, affirms Fintiri as Adamawa gov
01 Feb
- CBN frantically tightens noose on banks’ FX operations, speculators
- EFCC traces N7b to religious bodies, alleges faith leaders laundering funds for terrorists
- Women protesters in Nasarawa to pay N500,000 bail after 12 days incarceration
- Poor preparation, logistics stall student loan scheme