NEWSPAPER HEADLINE Week Feb 08 - Feb 14, 2025
14 Feb
- N’Assembly Passes N54.99trn 2025 Appropriation Bill
- Lokpobiri Meets Afreximbank President, Oramah, over Planned Take-off of $5bn Energy Bank
- We’re Battle-ready for ISWAP’s Threat, Southwest Govs Warn Terrorist Group
- Ribadu to Canada: Go to Hell If You Can’t Respect Nigeria’s Military High Command
14 Feb
- Ribadu tackles Canada for ‘denying’ CDS, others visas
- N/Assembly passes N54.99trn 2025 budget
- S/West govs to establish joint security surveillance team
- UTME: Parents, candidates express frustration at registration centres
14 Feb
- South-West govs to set up joint team to combat ISWAP’s threat
- Loan controversy: Onasanya appears in court to clear name
- NASS passes N54.9trn 2025 Budget
- NSA lashes at Canadian Embassy for denying CDS, other senior military officers visa
14 Feb
- $100m oppor tunity investor s can’t ignore
- Nigeria’s Grammy jour ney: Fr m King Sunny Ade to Tems
- even affordable European destinations
- Mildr ed and Kingsley Okonkwo: Dy namic mar r iage influencer s
14 Feb
- Hidden costs of providing healthcare in darkness
- NSA criticises Canadian embassy for refusing CDS, others visa
- Loan controversy: Onasanya appears in court to clear name
- Customs intercepts large cache of arms, ammunition in Lagos
14 Feb
- ACF, Afenifere Renew Stance On Rotational Presidency
- Minimum Wage Must Be Implemented In FCT Area Councils – Wike
- DHQ Launches Operation To Rehabilitate Former Bandits In North East
- NSA BERATES CANADIAN EMBASSY FOR DENYING CDS, OTHERS VISAS
14 Feb
- IGP faults Audit Report, seeks discrete, closed-door investigation
- NASS passes N54.9trn 2025 budget after N750bn increase
- roops neutralised 75 terrorists, arrested 138 criminals in one week – DHQ
- roops neutralised 75 terrorists, arrested 138 criminals in one week – DHQ
14 Feb
- N’Assembly passes, raises 2025 Budget by N750bn to N54.9trn
- Tax/tariff regime making mess of minimum wage –NLC
- S’West govs laud Tinubu's reforms
- Underwriters defy headwinds, post N142.2bn profit
13 Feb
- Tax reform bills survive in Reps, scale second reading
- PDP NWC confirms Udeh-Okoye as national secretary, transmits name to INEC
- Senate scraps ‘special fund’ account for regional development commissions, NYSC
- How Joop Berkhout, who lived for books, writers, died in his Ibadan home
13 Feb
- Importers divert cargo to Togo, others to evade tariff hike
- Group laments over 5,000 Nigerians stranded in Iraq
- 124 journalists killed in 2024, Israel mostly responsible, says CPJ
- Tinubu meets Google, wants Nigeria to drive Africa's AI evolution
13 Feb
- Crisis Brews In PDP Over Disciplinary Committee
- Tinubu Pushes AI, Tech Collaboration With Google
- Tariff: We Will Shut Down Telecom Operations, Labour Warns
- Anxiety Over Taraba Deputy Gov’s Whereabouts
13 Feb
- PDP crisis festers, Ortom, Anyanwu, others shun disciplinary panel
- 025 Hajj: NAHCON secures Mashair for 52,000 to beat deadline
- Troops neutralise Kachalla Na Faransa, Dogon Bakkwalo, others in Zamfara, Sokoto
- TEF partners UAE, AlNahyan on $6m empowerment for 1,000 young Africans
13 Feb
- NLC declares war on telecos, directs boycott of services till month end
- At last, PDP recognises Ude-Okoye as N'Secretary
- FG reviews plans to counter violent extremism
- Oil, gas sector posts N6.69trn in revenue amid escalating energy prices
13 Feb
- PDP NWC: Udeh-Okoye is Our National Secretary, We’re Bound by Court Judgement
- 50% Tariff Hike: NLC Threatens March 1 Shut-down of Telecom Firms’ Operations
- Fitch Ratings: Nigerian Banks Progress Towards New Capital Requirements
- AfreximBank-facilitated Hospital Complex Abuja Starts Operations June
13 Feb
- Univer sities demand N1.5m in medical cour ses’ racket
- Niger ia’s cold storage cr isis opens N160bn oppor tunity
- Disease r esistance tr eatment fuels $50m investment
- Mor e Niger ians to celebrate Valentine as luxur y spending gr ows
12 Feb
- Perish thought of 2027 presidency, Ganduje tells northern politicians
- FG committed to reducing food prices through agricultural investments —Information minister
- Police lost 178,459 firearms as of 2018 —Auditor-General’s report
- Reps want immediate halt to proposed hike in telecoms tariffs
12 Feb
- El-Rufai: Tinubu May Get Jonathan’s Treatment Ganduje: APC Will Adhere to North-south Zoning
- Wabara’s Purported Suspension Null, Void, Reckless, Unconstitutional, Says PDP NWC
- Local Oil Service Providers Demand $1.5bn Contracts on Shell’s $5bn Bonga North Project
- CBN Raises Charges on ATM Withdrawals for Bank Customers
12 Feb
- Abductors of APC nat’l director demand N350m ransom
- Nigeria gains point as Transparency Intl ranks country 36th most corrupt
- OIC meets over Trump’s plan for US takeover of Gaza
- Reps to begin debate on tax reform bills toda
12 Feb
- CBN bets on breaking PoS monopoly, improving banks’ cash operations
- FG mandates use of NIN for social services, NEWS PAGE 6 interventions
- New tariff regime begins as telcos implement 50% hike on calls, dat
- 300 die in tanker fire in four months, says FG
12 Feb
- Experts Fault Reintegration Of Repentant Terrorists
- 169,000 Benefit From FG's Student Loan
- There Are Plans To Arrest Me – El-Rufai
- CBN Introduces N100, N500 Charges On ATM Withdrawal
12 Feb
- Drop your 2027 ambition for Tinubu’s second term
- Reps query NIS’ 10-year unaudited report, Senate shocked at 3,907 missing police rifles
- INEC to security agencies: Replicate the Ondo feat in Anambra, FCT, other polls WEDNESDay 12 February, 2025 13 Sha’aban, 1446 No. 3,515 www.blueprint.ng N250
- CBN scraps free ATM withdrawals for other banks’ customers
12 Feb
- Power'll return to you in 2031, Ganduje tells northerners
- Tariffs: FG earns N1.08trn from non-oil export processing charges
- SMS price increases to N6 as telcos implement 50% tariff hike
- ATM CHARGES: CBN INTRODUCES NEW TRANSACTION FEES
12 Feb
- Foreign investor s’ confidence grows as Eurobond yields dip
- aira stability lower ed business costs in January – Report
- Outrage over MT N’s data pr ice hike
- We r isk losing an entire generation to drug addiction – Elegushi Foundation
11 Feb
- Stronger naira unsettles FX market amid waning dollar savings
- Women sexually violated or killed every 10 minutes in Nigeria’
- 800 ex-Boko Haram fighters undergoing de-radicalisation, says DHQ
- 800 ex-Boko Haram fighters undergoing de-radicalisation, says DHQ
11 Feb
- New electr icity tar iffs seen shocking consumers
- Soaring seed costs price far mers out of bumper harvest
- CJN decr ies persistent allegations of inefficiency, delayed justice, bias, in the judiciar y
- See oppor tunities in difficult situations, commissioner inspires N YSC members
11 Feb
- NAFDAC DG, Adeyeye, Doubles Down on Death Penalty for Fake Drug Dealers
- Supreme Court Reserves Ruling in Four Rivers Cases, Dismisses Fubara’s Appeal on Budget
- Elon Musk Bids $97.4bn for Control of OpenAI, Firm Rejects Offer
- Reuters: Dangote Refinery to Hit Full Capacity in Next One Month
11 Feb
- Pro-Wike, Fubara Camps 4 Differ Over S’Court Verdict
- Analysts Project 15% Inflation As MPC Holds February 18
- Why I Visited Obasanjo In Abeokuta – Atiku
- Nasarawa Poised For Greater Success – AG
11 Feb
- 2027: Adesina hints at presidential run
- Palestinians will have no right to return under Gaza plan – Trump
- Japa: ‘One doctor attending to 1,800 cancer patients
- 6 die in Jigawa, Niger road crashes
11 Feb
- Atiku, Tambuwal, others’ visit to Obasanjo sparks fresh debate
- Power outage: What FG, UCH, IBEDC resolved to do
- Supreme Court reserves judgment in four appeals on Rivers political crisis
- Relocate NLNG plants to Niger Delta, PANDEF tells FG
11 Feb
- S’Court dismisses Fubara’s appeal, Amaewhule-led Rivers assembly remains
- JAMB to candidates: Come to headquarters if you’ve biometric challenges
- My visit to Obasanjo not about 2027 – Atiku
- Katsina: Musawa LG engages 75 Islamic scholars to pray against banditry
11 Feb
- Rivers: Supreme Court dismisses Fubara’s suit against 27 pro-Wike lawmakers
- AUTO: DANGOTE PEUGEOT BEGINS 3008 GT ASSEMBLY IN KADUNA
- Mass Housing: FG launches private sector-driven N100bn facility
- PANDEF To Tinubu:Non-assent to SSDC Bill leaves S’South orphaned, excluded
10 Feb
- Manufacturers, others decry new 4% levy on imports
- You can’t relocate Palestinians to Saudi land, Arab nations tell Netanyah
- Cashless payment: Commuters protest delay at Keffi-Akwanga road tollgate
- How I lost 6 family members to kidney disease – Yobe LG chair
10 Feb
- Questions persist over PDP national secretary
- NECA rejects new 4% Customs levy, warns it will further impoverish Nigerians
- FG steps into power outage crisis at UCH
- Investors favour 364-day Bonds, Treasury Bills
10 Feb
- Rice output hits 4-year low on high costs
- Fintechs eat banks’ N80tr n transfer s lunch
- Naira, public bor rowing seen pushing money supply grow th by 51%
- Stockbr oker s to champion strategies to achieve $1tr n economy
10 Feb
- Patients, caregivers desert UCH wards as health services decline
- Devt, equity concerns fuel controversy over proposed states
- FBN Holdings emerges best performing Tier-1 bank with 17.65% YtD gains
- MAN, NECA warn of NPA, Customs charges’ impact on businesses, Nigerians
10 Feb
- Expectant Mothers Yet To 4 Access Free Caesarean Section
- FCT Bus Terminal Construction Generates 3,000 Jobs
- Court Affirms FCCPC’s Authority Over Telecom Sector
- FBN Holdings Emerges Best Performing Tier-One Bank
10 Feb
- NECA, MAN, Saraki Fault Customs’ Fresh 4% Levy, NPA's 15% Hike in Port Charges
- In Landmark Ruling, Court Affirms FCCPC's Regulatory Authority in All Sectors of Economy
- Tinubu, Macron, World Leaders, Pay Tributes to Herbert Wigwe on First Anniversary Ceremony
- Namibia's 'Founding Father’ Sam Nujoma, Dies at 95
10 Feb
- NDLEA foils cache of heroin, NAFDAC seeks death penalty
- Sack of Adamawa REC, 2 others good omen for 2027 polls – Arewa Think Tank
- Unregistered pilgrims: S/Arabia restricts multiple-entry visas for Nigeria, 13 others
- Mass wedding: Kebbi earmarks N54m dowry for 300 couples
10 Feb
- Health workers’ exodus'll create a powder keg if not addressed
- FY’24: Six banks’ profits jump 104.7% to N1.46trn
- Leadership Crisis: Why I can never leave PDP, by Bode George
- Benue communities face humanitarian crisis as gunmen intensify attacks
09 Feb
- We don’t need new parties to oust APC
- Herbalists making charms for Yahoo boys are criminals —Elebuibon
- We are making efforts to rescue Imam, 9 others abducted in Sokoto mosque —Police
- APC North-Central takes hard stance over attack on SGF, govs
09 Feb
- Why Nigerians Should Not Downplay Tinubu’s Foreign Trips
- El-Rufai, Amaechi… PARTY CHIEFTAINS WITH AXE TO GRIND AGAINST APC
- People Are Concerned With ‘Stomach Infrastructure’ And Act With Emotions –Fayemi
- Soyinka’s Death And The King’s Horseman Lights Up Sheffield Theatre
09 Feb
- Why VP is yet to occupy new house
- Farming is the stupidest thing to do (for a retiree) – Alhaji Garba Gumel
- Your budget lacks transparency, Obi tells Tinubu
- A day at Lagos exotic meat market
09 Feb
- CNS: Military Has No Excuse Not to Defeat Terrorism, Banditry, Oil Theft, Other Threats
- CNS: Military Has No Excuse Not to Defeat Terrorism, Banditry, Oil Theft, Other Threats
- Recapitalisation: Access Bank, Zenith, Fidelity, FCMB Reject N4.8bn Subscriptions in Compliance with CBN’s Guidelines
- South-east Must Connect to Central Govt Through APC, I'll Connect Anambra in November, Says Ganduje
09 Feb
- How porous borders worsen Nigeria’s security challenge
- Nigerians brace up for Trump’s ‘America first policy’ implementation
- Worries as ‘wayside’ hotels turn havens for ritual killing
- Worries as ‘wayside’ hotels turn havens for ritual killing
09 Feb
- 29 States Abandon 270 Multi-billion Naira Projects
- Israel Releases 183 Palestinian Prisoners For 3 Hostages
- ECOWAS@50: Gowon, Obasanjo, IBB, Others Seek End To Regional Crises
- NBTE To Become National Commission For Technical Education – Bugaje
09 Feb
- PSC Vs IGP: Senate asks Commission’s Chair to explain quit order to officers
- IPOB heads to S’Court over proscription order
- US abolishes Drop Box visa process for Nigerians
- Anambra 2025: APC aspirants bicker over election during Ganduje's visit
09 Feb
- FG didn’t scrap JSS, SSS classes, minister clarifies
- InEC to nigerians: Support electoral reforms
- The historical evolution of Zazzau Emirate
- Equity market sustains growth profile, gains N371bn
08 Feb
- Why VP is yet to occupy new house
- Farming is the stupidest thing to do (for a retiree) – Alhaji Garba Gumel
- Your budget lacks transparency, Obi tells Tinubu
- A day at Lagos exotic meat marke
08 Feb
- People Are Concerned With ‘Stomach Infrastructure’ And Act With Emotions –Fayemi
- El-Rufai, Amaechi… PARTY CHIEFTAINS WITH AXE TO GRIND AGAINST APC
- Soyinka’s Death And The King’s Horseman Lights Up Sheffield Theatre
- Why Nigerians Should Not Downplay Tinubu’s Foreign Trips
08 Feb
- Why we’re not excited by Third-Party insurance policy
- FALAE, YAKASSAI, UWAZURIKE, OTHERS DISAGREE AS REPS FAULT PROPOSALS
- FG launches contactless passport renewal system in Europe
- Agunechembaraids 26 kidnappers’ camps, arrests 67 suspects in 3 weeks
08 Feb
- The historical evolution of Zazzau Emirate
- FG didn’t scrap JSS, SSS classes, minister clarifies
- Nigerians in Europe can now renew passports onlin
- InEC to nigerians: Support electoral reforms
08 Feb
- The future of finance is in technology — Segun Aina, Fintech chairman
- We are committed to keeping bandits out of Lagos —Hausa, Fulani leaders
- Adebutu mourns death of Alaperu of Iperu-Remo
- PDP govs plotting to form new party, Anyanwu, disputed National Secretary alleges
08 Feb
- Soludo: We’re Bent on Cleansing Anambra State of Criminals
- Again GHL Explains How First Bank Failed to Meet Obligations After Benefits
- INEC: Almost Two Years After 2023 Elections, Electoral Offences Cases Still Pending Before Courts
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