NEWSPAPER HEADLINE Week Oct 01 - Oct 07, 2024
07 Oct
- Concerns over naira’s fair value after CBN’s $2b lifeline
- Fubara swears in chairmen, APC upsets Benue, PDP shines in A’Ibom
- Nigeria’s cargo clearance costs 179% above neighbours, says report
- Stop bringing ill-gotten money as offerings, Muoka warns
07 Oct
- Why naira stability hinges on 2m bpd of oil
- How Nigeria’s 18.3m out-ofschool children cripple economy
- Coscharis Technologies secures $4bn to provide power solutions to businesses
- CBN is serious about fair, efficient markets - Cardoso
07 Oct
- How multi-billion naira illicit arms entered Nigeria 23 times in 7 years
- Higher interest rate painful for borrowers but necessary to control infl ation – CBN
- Gunmen abduct school principal, 8 others in Kaduna
- Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway: FG threatens to revoke Berger’s contract over price dispute
07 Oct
- Protests greet outcome of Rivers, Benue A’Ibom LG polls
- NDLEA nabs Canadian lady with N9bn worth of Opioids at MMA MONday 7 October, 2024 4 Rabi’ul Thani, 1446 No. 3,418 www.blueprint.ng N250 PaGE 1
- $1.9bn Kano-Maradi railway project to be completed Dec. 2026 – FG
- Dambazau, Yayale Ahmed head ACF security, reconciliation c’ttees
07 Oct
- Israel-Hezbollah Conflict:Many Nigerians unwilling to leave Lebanon, says FG
- H1’24: Tier 1 banks’ assets rise 38.2% to N130.45trn
- NASS'll tinker with existing laws to guarantee full LG autonomy –Akpabio
- CARDOSO: CBN COMMITTED TO TRANSPARENCY IN FOREX DEALS
07 Oct
- New Rivers begins from now —Fubara
- Why we floated the Naira —CBN gov
- Experts decry low oil revenues to federation, seek review of PIA
- Ondo flood victims count losses, appeal for help
07 Oct
- New Rivers begins from now —Fubara
- Why we floated the Naira —CBN gov
- Experts decry low oil revenues to federation, seek review of PIA
- Ondo flood victims count losses, appeal for help
07 Oct
- New Rivers begins from now —Fubara
- Why we floated the Naira —CBN gov
- Experts decry low oil revenues to federation, seek review of PIA
- Ondo flood victims count losses, appeal for help
07 Oct
- Fubara: Desperate Situations Require Desperate Measures
- Yemi Cardoso: Floating of Currency Key to Achieving Forex Market Reality
- As Israel’s Wars Rage, Thousands Gather to Mark First Anniversary of Oct 7 Hamas’ Attack
- FG Approves N820bn for Completion of Abuja-Kaduna-Kano, Bodo Bonny Highways
07 Oct
- APC Reps Fume Over N1m 4 Salary Deductions For Okpebholo
- Tinubu, Buhari Hail LEADERSHIP’s 20 Years Of Ethical Journalism
- ACF Sets Up 2 Committees On North’s Challenges
- Varsity Workers Issue 21-Day Ultimatum Over Withheld Salaries
07 Oct
- Withhold allocations to states failing to conduct credible LG polls
- Implementation of EFEMS to ensure trust, achieve efficient fx markets –Cardoso
- Nigeria evacuates citizens from Lebanon amid conflic
- MPR Hike: Interest rate at 27.25% may squeeze SMEs, threaten $1trn economy target-Experts
06 Oct
- Tapping to cash out: How the young, old got hooked
- Despite health risks, laws, more Nigerians switch to charcoal, firewood
- World Teachers Day: 4yrs after promises, Nigerian teachers yet to get improved salary, welfare
- Rivers, Benue, Akwa Ibom, Jigawa hold LG polls today
06 Oct
- Prof. Azinge crowned Asagba of Asaba
- Rivers: Fubara takes charge as APP coasts to victory
- M’East Crisis: FG puts intelligence, security agencies on alert – Investigation
- LOBBYISTS BESIEGE TINUBU, DELAY RESHUFFLE –SOURCES
06 Oct
- Tension at Alex Ekwueme University Teaching Hospital as money for residency training vanishes
- Furore over Adeboye’s comments on paying tithe in churches
- Prof. Azinge ascends throne as 14th Asagba of Asaba
- Prof. Azinge ascends throne as 14th Asagba of Asaba
06 Oct
- Fubara’s Proxy Party, APP, Wins 22 Chairmanship Seats in Rivers LG Polls
- Tinubu Must Be Supported at All Costs, Osoba Tells South-west APC Leaders
- Edun Confirms Sale of Crude Oil, Refined Petroleum Products in Naira for Currency Stability
- Alake Kicks against State Govts’ Interference in Mining Operations
06 Oct
- Fubara’s Proxy Party, APP, Wins 22 Chairmanship Seats in Rivers LG Polls
- Tinubu Must Be Supported at All Costs, Osoba Tells South-west APC Leaders
- Edun Confirms Sale of Crude Oil, Refined Petroleum Products in Naira for Currency Stability
- Alake Kicks against State Govts’ Interference in Mining Operations
06 Oct
- Daring Hackers On The Prowl Amid Strict Anti-Cybercrime Measures
- Tackling Fuel Supply Crisis: Lessons From NLNG Templat
- SouthWest Politicians’ Lip Service To Development (3)
- WITH UNCOORDINATED STRATEGIES, MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED IS IMMINENT
06 Oct
- Bandits Still Control 04 Communities In 24 Katsina, Zamfara LGs
- I’m After Next Generation Of Nigerians Not 2027 Election – Tinubu
- I Will Be Fair To All, New Asagba Assures Subjects
- Criticisms Trail Tinubu's 14 Foreign Trips In 9 Months
06 Oct
- Avoidable danger: How open manholes ‘swallow’ people on Nigerian roads
- Nigeria’s challenges will be tackled if leaders focus on improving lives – Akobundu
- Tinubu under pressure as economy continues to totter
- Herdsmen, kidnappers hamstring Nigeria’s diversification efforts
06 Oct
- I’m not thinking of 2027 polls now
- LG ELECTION: Fubara regains control of Rivers as APP sweeps 22 out of 23 LGs
- Northern elders drum up support for constitution review
- Woman who delivers quadruplets in Delta appeals for help over mounting hospital bill
05 Oct
- Tapping to cash out: How the young, old got hooked
- Despite health risks, laws, more Nigerians switch to charcoal
- Rivers, Benue, Akwa Ibom, Jigawa hold LG polls today
- World Teachers Day: 4yrs after promises, Nigerian teachers yet to get improved salary, welfare
05 Oct
- LG poll sparks fear of breakdown of law and order in Port Harcourt
- Court remands man for allegedly raping his daughter
- More terrorism commanders killed in battlefield, says DHQ
- Story of 71-yr-old Pa Adeola jailed for life for raping friend’s granddaughter
05 Oct
- Tension in Rivers as Fubara Insists on LG Polls
- Ahead of NEC Meeting, Governors, Atiku, Wike Jostle for Control of PDP
- President Bows to Pressure, Confers GCON Honour on Abbas
- Barau, Doguwa Tackle Kwankwaso, Declare NNPP Has Pauperised Kano People
05 Oct
- Rivers:Tension as Fubara vows to resist attempts to stop LG poll
- POS scam: Fraudsters target female operators, deploy various tricks
- CBN sells $543.5m to authorised dealers in 11 days
- ETHNIC NATIONALITIES DISAGREE ON RETURN TO REGIONALISM
05 Oct
- SouthWest Politicians’ Lip Service To Development
- Daring Hackers On The Prowl Amid Strict Anti-Cybercrime Measures
- Tackling Fuel Supply Crisis: Lessons From NLNG Template
- WITH UNCOORDINATED STRATEGIES, MISSION UNACCOMPLISHED IS IMMINENT
05 Oct
- Rivers of war •Fubara draws battle line with IGP over LG polls •Traditional rulers ask Tinubu to call police to order •PDP asks Rivers to resist intimidation, vote en masse
- Any politician that is not corrupt in Nigeria is lucky —Senator Ndume
- motekun arrests family of seven for burglary, theft of food items
- Bandits invade mosques in Katsina, disrupt Jumat service
05 Oct
- Poor Services Persist As Subscribers Hit 18.7m
- Tinubu Makes U-turn, Confers GCON On Abbas
- Banditry: Katsina Farmers Use Elderly Women To Harvest Crops
- Pioneering Editors Celebrate 20 Years Of LEADERSHIP’s Impact
04 Oct
- Drop Arms Or Be Killed, Tinubu Warns Terrorists
- IN 4 BILLS, TINUBU ASKS NASS TO REPEAL FIRS ACT, ENACT NRS, OTHERS
- Drop Arms Or Be Killed, Tinubu Warns Terrorists
- Reps Seek Downward Review Of NHIS Medicine Price Lis
04 Oct
- Kwankwaso: Wind of Change Will Blow in 2027, Security, INEC Will Run Helter-skelter
- Nigeria Targets 4 Million bpd Oil Production, 10bcf Gas Output By 2030
- NWDC: Women Fault Tinubu Over All-male Board Membership
- LAUNCH OF EXPANDED MSMES CLINICS/INAUGURATION OF ENUGU GARMENT AND FASHION HUB
04 Oct
- ASUP issues 14-day ultimatum to FG over unresolved issues
- Court grants Taraba ex-gov, Ishaku, N150m bail in alleged N27b fraud suit
- Tension as Pro-Wike, Fubara camps head for climax in Rivers’ council polls
- Companies battle inflation, FX issues, lose 30% of share value in nine months
04 Oct
- Insecurity: CDS Musa kicks against hiring of Military contractors
- Shettima commissions Enugu Fashion, Garment hub, gifts MSME participants N10m support
- Nigerian universities on brink of shutting down due to funding –ASUU
- ASUP issues 14-day ultimatum to FG over unresolved issues
04 Oct
- High-electricity Bills:Varsities on verge of shutting down –ASUU
- Tinubu moves to rename FIRS, forwards 4 tax reform bills to NASS
- Insecurity:Porous borders threat to Nigeria's security challenges –FG
- NIGERIAN FIRMS CUT DOLLAR DEBTS ON NAIRA'S WEAKNESS
04 Oct
- Multinationals exit Nigerian operations to limit FX exposure
- Nigeria foot-drags to unlock N180trn assets as debt piles
- Nollywood script writing fails to match screen success
- Nigerian oil and gas sector facing dwindling human capital development – Avuru
04 Oct
- TINUBU TO TERRORISTS AT NAN LECTURE: Surrender now or face brutal end like your leaders
- North not neglected in Renewed Hope road infrastructure - Umahi
- Malkohi camp where IDPs rent farm land for survival
- Tinubu wants FIRS renamed NRS, transmits tax reform bills to NASS
04 Oct
- FG targets more revenue from taxes as Tinubu sends 4 bills to N/Assembly
- Niger boat mishap: Death toll hits 36 as 20 more bodies recovered
- Middle East tension pushes global oil prices up
- Insecurity threatening northerners’ existence – ACF
04 Oct
- Tinubu to terrorists, bandits: Surrender or face renewed military onslaught
- Senators back bill for South-South Development Commission
- Protest in Rivers over LG election
- Court bars VIO from confiscating vehicles, imposing fines
03 Oct
- Tinubu jets off to UK amid lobbying for cabinet slots
- Ondo guber poll:Youths storm INEC office, demand redeployment of REC
- Confusion over Rivers LG polls as REC denies releasing 2023 voter register to RSIEC
- Senate rejects private investigators bill amid fears
03 Oct
- Corruption:We recovered N13bn diverted public funds in Sept –ICPC
- Insecurity:Ndume asks Tinubu to engage mercenaries
- Canadato reduce study permits for Nigerians, others
- Nigerian oil firm moves to buy state-owned refinery in Trinidad
03 Oct
- Engage Military Contractors to Wipe Out Boko Haram, Ndume Tells Tinubu
- Israel Declares United Nations Chief, António Guterres, Persona Non Grata
- FG Unveils New Fiscal Incentives to Boost Oil, Gas Sector
- Naira Redesign Was Good for the Economy, Former Acting CBN Governor, Shonubi Tells Court
03 Oct
- Boat ferrying 300 capsizes in Niger, 16 bodies recovered
- 64th Independence: Reps reject CFR national honour on Tajudeen Abbas
- Terrorists slaughter 6 farmers, abduct 5 others in Borno
- Israel, Lebanon attacks: Move to safer place, NIDCOM advises Nigerians
03 Oct
- Engage services of military contractors to wipe out terrorists
- Naira plunges by 8.25% amid escalating FX crises
- BOI to disburse N1bn single-digit interest loan to 140 manufacturers Naira plunges by 8.25% amid escalating FX crises
- Workers kick as FG suspends sale of subsidised rice BOI to disburse N1bn single-digit interest loan to 140 manufacturers Naira plunges by 8.25% amid escalating FX crises
03 Oct
- 64 years of phantom contracts, investment noise
- Lending apps surge 80% as personal loans hit N7.5trn
- Money supply: Flood of cash amid growth drought
- 140 manufacturers to access N1bn BOI single-digit loans
03 Oct
- 169 Passengers Feared Dead In Niger Boat Mishap
- Reps Want GCON National Honour For Abbas, Reject CFR PAGE
- Poverty In Northern Nigeria On Increase – Minister
- Boko Haram: Ndume Seeks Engagement Of Mercenaries 31 rescued, 70 bodies recovered Search continues as Kwara, Niger communities mourn 4 Poverty In Northern Nigeria On Increase – Minister
03 Oct
- FG introduces tax incentives, VAT modifications on diesel, CNG, others
- Atiku writes National Assembly, proposes rotational presidency •Wants minimum education qualification raised
- Adeleke threatens to sue APC director for N5bn over alleged defamation
- Ekiti returning to Awolowo’s farm settlement era to boost food security —Oyebanji
03 Oct
- 16 buried, 150 still missing after Niger boat mishap
- Constitution review: Atiku proposes rotational presidency
- MAN to FG: Sanction officials making policies that ruin businesses
- Iran-Israel war: FG moves to evacuate Nigerians in Lebanon
02 Oct
- Nigerians can’t find peace despite growing security budgets
- Glitz, music herald BusinessDay Top 25 CEOs Awards 2024
- Why NNPC prioritises Dangote in naira crude sales
- Again, protesters demand improved living conditions for Nigerians
02 Oct
- Protests in Lagos, Ondo, Osun, halted in Abuja
- Independence Day: Jonathan, govs, Mark say Nigeria’ll overcome challenges
- Media Trust elevates Idris, Iyaji to DEIC, GE; Saleh, Aminiya Edito
- Northern Youths Celebrate Independence Day, Appreciate President Tinubu
02 Oct
- Tinubu, Shettima, others celebrate Independence Anniversary in Aso Villa
- Hardship on campuses getting in Abuja unbearable, ASUU warns Tinubu
- CITIGROUP: CBN SHOULD ADOPT FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO SHIELD NAIRA
- Fuel importation hits 6-month high at 35% increase in September
02 Oct
- #FearlessInOctober Protest Poor In States
- Uncertainty Over Naira-for-crude Policy As FG Fails To Release Guideline
- I Didn’t Steal Kaduna Money, I Will Swear With Quran – El-Rufai
- PDP Is Not One Man’s Enterprise – Governors
02 Oct
- Protest in Lagos, Abuja, others over hardship
- Iran launches ballistic missiles at Israel
- PDP slams Tinubu’s Independence Day speech
- Tinubu, Shettima, others mark Independence Day in Aso Villa
01 Oct
- Tinubu To Nigerians: I’m deeply aware of your struggles in these challenging times
- Food Inflation: World Bank lists Nigeria among hardest hit nations
- CJN: Tinubu swears in Kekere-Ekun, pledges to respect judiciary’s sanctity
- Nigeria at 64, happy independence Anniversary
01 Oct
- Nigeria at 64, Happy independent day Nigeria
- Marketers face pricing hurdles over direct Dangote petrol purchase
- Judiciary must remain truly independent - Tinubu
- Nigeria at 64, our spirit celebrate Naija, happy independence Nigeria
01 Oct
- October 1: IGP orders water-tight security
- Petrol subsidy will bankrupt Nigeria, Omokri warns •Calls for understanding
- Half year: UBA grows earnings by 40% to N1.37trn October 1: IGP orders water-tight security •Declares interim dividend
- Nigeria at 64, Happy independent day Nigeria
01 Oct
- Hardship: I’m committed to sustainable solutions –Tinubu
- NAF probes Kaduna airstrikes, insists only terrorists killed
- New SANs: CJN Kekere-Ekun warns against disobedience to court orders
- Nigeria at 64, Happy independent day Nigeria