NEWSPAPER HEADLINE Week Mar 15 - Mar 21, 2024
21 Mar

- CJN to collect N5.3m monthly as Reps pass new bill
- Court refuses to stop impeachment move against Edo Deputy Gov, Philip Shaibu Pg
- BVN, NIN linkage: Give it more time to run, Catholic Church urges FG
- Access Bank to acquire 100% holding in NBK from KCB Court refuses to stop impeachment move against Edo Deputy Gov, Philip Shaibu Pg 6 Pg 15 Pg
21 Mar

- CBN: We Have Settled All Valid Forex Backlogs
- NNPC Says Processes for Public Ownership of Its Shares to Begin Soon
- Tinubu: Slain Army Officers, Soldiers will Be Given Befitting Burial, National Honours
- Economic Hardship: Tinubu Places Temporary Ban on Foreign Trips for FG Officials
21 Mar

- Nigeria gets most payout from Shell in first since 2020
- Air Peace’s maiden London flight fully booked amid scarce cheap tickets
- Relief as CBN finally clears $7 bn FX backlog
- FG unveils plans to build skilled workforce
21 Mar

- Operators Exploiting Gaps To Under-declare Crude Output
- Court Refuses To Stop Shaibu’s Impeachment
- Again, National PAGE 24 Assembly Extends 2023 Budget’s Lifespan
- Senate, Service Chiefs Meet On Killing Of 17 Soldiers, Officers
21 Mar

- FG spends N6tr subsidy on unavailable electricity in 10yrs
- Okuama killings: Urhobo monarchs, INC call for independent inquiry
- CBN says all valid FX backlog cleared
- Senate passes student loan bill
21 Mar

- Controversy trails leaked list of terrorists’ financiers
- Reps raise CJN’s monthly pay to N5.3m, S/Court justices N4.2m
- N193bn intervention loans declared lost by CBN
- Why I will not negotiate with bandits – Gov Radda
21 Mar

- FG lists Mamu, 14 others, BDCs as terrorism financiers
- N3.7trn ‘budget padding’: CSOs demand list of constituency projects
- Tension mounts over Edo PDP chair's whereabouts, abductors incommunicado
- Allow MDAs do their work, Tinubu pleads with National Assembly
21 Mar

- FG lists Mamu, 14 others, BDCs as terrorism financiers
- N3.7trn ‘budget padding’: CSOs demand list of constituency projects
- Tension mounts over Edo PDP chair's whereabouts, abductors incommunicado
- Allow MDAs do their work, Tinubu pleads with National Assembly
21 Mar

- Reps approve new salaries, allowances for judicial officers
- Nigeria earned $4.92bn from taxes, royalties, fees from oil major
- NLC, LP tussle over party control
- CBN LIQUIDATES VALIDATED $7BN FOREX BACKLOG
21 Mar

- Senate, service chiefs in closed-door meeting
- MPC members list challenges facing Nigeria’s economy
- NASS passes student loan bill
- Japa: Nurses sue council, health minister, others over implementation of new guidelines
20 Mar

- Loan sharks target poor citizens, exploit, violate privacy rights
- Man bags life jail for defiling neighbour’s 11-year-old daughter
- NEITI: Nigeria’s federating units shared N10.14 trillion in 2023
- Reps summons Pate, perm sec over $300 million malaria fund
20 Mar

- For Cardoso, February’s jumbo rate hike not big enough
- Insurers see sector growth rising on policy enforcement
- Adaora Umeoji becomes first female GMD of Zenith Bank
- Manufacturers’ credit sales growth slows on rising inflation
20 Mar

- Oborevwori Briefs Tinubu on Delta Killings, Says State Taken Aback By Development
- Zenith Bank Appoints Adaora Umeoji GMD/CEO
- NEITI: With 23.56% Rise in Revenue, FG, States, LGs Shared N10.14tn in 2023
- TCN Announces Capacity Increase of
20 Mar

- Oborevwori Meets Tinubu over Delta Killings...as Senate Probes incident
- Oil prices hit fourmonth high, trades at $87.22/brr
- CBN lifts restrictions on FX for importation of dairy products Court rejects Nnamdi Kanu’s fresh request for bail P.14 P.2 P.1
- CBN lifts restrictions on FX for importation of dairy products
20 Mar

- Okuama: 17 officers, soldiers killers may be mercenaries, says Akpabio
- Ways And Means: Senate insists on total loan recovery
- CALCIUM, VITAMIN D MAY LOWER CANCER RISK BUT RAISE HEART RISK –EXPERTS
- Revenue: Nigeria faces N1trn gas export deficit
20 Mar

- Be warned, INEC’ll stick to timetable, March 24 deadline
- Killers of military personnel may be foreign mercenaries – Akpabio
- I never supported violence in South-east – Kanu
- I never supported violence in South-east – Kanu
20 Mar

- Kano, Katsina, Sokoto, 4 others spend N28.3bn on Ramadan feeding
- Akpabio under fi re for linking soldiers’ killings to mercenaries
- ‘Children executed by Israeli forces in raid on Gaza hospital
- Adaora emerges Zenith Bank’s fi rst female GMD
20 Mar

- Panic In Bayelsa As Troops Launch Manhunt For Killers
- Troops Rescue 32 Kidnap Victims In Kaduna, Katsina
- Adaora Umeoji PAGE 21 Appointed Zenith Bank GMD/CEO
- FAAC Allocation Increased By 23.56 Per Cent In 1 Year – NEITI
20 Mar

- Delta gov meets Tinubu; Akpabio, NHRC weigh in on killing of 17 military men
- Senate threatens to debit account of banks
- Impeachment: Edo Assembly directs CJ to constitute panel to probe dep gov
- Zenith Bank appoints Adaora Umeoji first female GMD/CEO effective June 1
19 Mar

- DHQ: There'II Be Measured, Injurious Consequences for Killing Military Personnel
- Tinubu to Okpebholo: Victory is Important, Presents Party's Flag to Edo Guber Candidate
- New, Legitimate Constitution, Path to Nigeria's Solution, Anyaoku, Sanwo-Olu, Adebanjo, Others Declare
- Alleged Terrorism Financing: Court Orders Binance to Release Data to EFCC
19 Mar

- Analysis: Nigeria at wits’ end as oil thieves overrun surveillance
- Court orders Binance to release Nigerians’ data to EFCC
- FG flags off N40bn mass metering for army formations
- Nigeria probes potential NIN database breach
19 Mar

- Kaduna:Fear, tension as bandits kidnap 87, loot shops in fresh attack
- Adopt 2014 Confab report, Anyaoku tells FG
- UNDERSEA CABLE DAMAGE: TELCOS RESTORE SERVICES TO 90% CAPACITY
- CBN: Unease as sacked directors refuse to sign retirement letters
19 Mar

- With 86 in fresh attack, 466 kidnapped in 19 days – Investigation
- How 28 MDAs illegally withdrew N13.95trn – Audit report
- Delta: Senate backs Tinubu's charge to military over killing of officers, soldiers
- OAU SSANU, NASU protest shut offices, UNILORIN averts exams’ disruption N12.7bn released for provision of meters in military barracks – Official You've failed the people, LP chides own Reps members P 10 P 16 Page
19 Mar

- 86 abducted in fresh Kaduna attack
- Anyaoku, Adebanjo, ex-govs call for new constitution
- Undersea cable cut: Business owners count losses; services restored
- SSANU, NASU ground activities at varsities; NLC to join action
19 Mar

- Okuama killings: Senate backs Tinubu on arrests, prosecution of masterminds
- Naira Devaluation: Pension funds decline by $18.9bn in one year
- Experts proffer ways out of rising inflation
- Dun & Bradstreet launches new product variants to empower SMEs
19 Mar

- Bandits Sustain Attacks On Kaduna, Abduct Another 86
- Sanwo-Olu, Anyaoku, Adebanjo, Others Clamour For New Constitution
- Soldiers’ Killers Won’t Escape Justice – Defence Ministers
- Soldiers’ Killers Won’t Escape Justice – Defence Ministers
19 Mar

- Low, middle class defer homeownership plans for food
- Implementation hurdles for copious provisions in new Electricity Act
- Metering gaps remain despite N273.3b loan to DisCos for meters, others
- Court convicts five for murder, kidnapping in Rivers