Nigerian Newspapers Headlines, Monday, 18 January 2021

Nigerian Newspapers Headlines

DAILY INDEPENDENT

Biden To Issue Executive Orders To Reverse Trump Policies

COVID-19 Resurgence Threatens Schools’ Resumption In Imo

Communal Crisis: Isoko Youths Threaten To Shut Down Oil Facilities

Governors Thwarting Efforts At Restructuring -Okechukwu, VON DG

NNPC Records ‘28.38bn Trading Surplus In Sept. ‘ Report

Air Accident: DG NCAA Challenges Stakeholders To Perform Optimally

Possession Of Human Head: Amotekun Arrests Two Cemetery Guards In Ondo

Scholarship: Zulum Pays 23, 776 Borno Tertiary Students With N624m

COVID-19: Aviation Roundtable Urges Domestic Operators To Consider Merger

Fayemi Orders Reopening Of Schools In Ekiti, Reviews Curfew

ACJHR Urges FG To Stop NIN Registration To Curtail Spread Of COVID-19

LASU Staff Unions Cancel Proposed Strike Action

AfCFTA: Commodity Exchange Positions Nigeria For Effective Operations

Over 8,000 Passengers Access e-Ticketing On Abuja-Kaduna Rail Line

PUNCH  

Face masks: How COVID-19 took tailors, teenagers out of job market

Foundation builds 110 houses for poor in Ebonyi

Equity market closes week positive with 2.63% gain

Bayelsa residents sight helicopters as oil pollutes water

Dangote completes Nigerias longest concrete road

Wildlife consumption common in Nigeria despite COVID-19 Report

London stocks fall as investors mull UK GDP

NAICOM wants insurance firms to drive industry premium

Police plan autopsy on Imo five-year-old found in car

Kaduna gunmen ambush anti-bandits policemens vehicle, four killed, cop missing

FG has lost grip of security, says PANDEF

Ex-Rivers Rep dies 10 days after losing wife

Suspected Gana loyalists kill three in Benue attack

Storage facilities: Nigeria may waste 100,000 COVID-19 vaccine doses, say Experts

Borno mob lynches soldier for killing five civilians

Army conniving with herdsmen on attacks -Ogun monarchs

Dont disregard experts advice, NMA tells FG as schools resume

LP urges Wike to invest N78bn refund in agric

Dont let Buhari sell public assets, SERAP urges National Assembly

Envoys list: Buhari posts ex-ministers to UK, Spain, Emenike to US

Kwara partners Lagos on agric, unveil 10-year transformation plan

Indian, bankers case: EFCC tackles Lagos, challenges pardon

Stop inciting ethnic tension, Akwa Ibom kings warn groups

COVID-19 enforcement: Edo deploys 800 constabulary, threatens prosecution

NNPC records N28.38bn trading surplus in September 2020

Ekiti relaxes curfew, orders schools to reopen Monday

Nigerian Twitter doubts Zulums claim on Christian Boko Haram members

UPDATED: Friends mourn as robbers kill winner of IBM competition in Lagos

Pictorial: Five memorable PDA of Obama, Michelle that will melt your heart

Arik Air keeps mum on AMCONs planned international airline

Sanwo-Olu orders police to impound vehicles with covered number plate

How Boko Haram recruit children in Northern Nigeria

Nigeria needs priests, pastors after Christs heart, says Kaigama

COVID-19: How Nigeria lost Onwudiwe, three other profs in two weeks                                                                                  

THISDAY

Equities Investors Gain N552bn as Market Rebounds

Austrian Firm to Build Pipeline Factory in Nigeria

Uncertainty over IG’s Tenure Hampers Activities at Force Headquarters

Analysts: Heirs Holdings’ $1.1bn OML 17 Deal Renews Confidence in Economy

FG Fixes December for Completion of Apapa-Oworonshoki Expressway

With CBN’s Intervention, Discos’ Revenue Collection in Steady Rise

NNPC Reports $120.49m Crude Oil, Gas Revenue in September

18 Kidnapped Kano Traders Regain Freedom

Police Confirm Killing of Four Officers By Kaduna Bandits

Gunmen Kill 80-year-old Woman, Four Others in Kaduna

Bandits Kill Catholic Priest, Kidnap 17 Villagers in Niger

Gana’s Loyalists Kill Three Persons in Benue Community

Dangote Completes Nigeria’s Longest Concrete Road

Buhari, Atiku, Abiodun, PDP, Ogun APC Mourn Former Minister, Martins-Kuye

INEC Lists Hurdles to Anambra, 2023 Elections

Falana-led Coalition Seeks Renewal of #EndSARS Protesters’ Passports

Lekki Homeowners Threaten Showdown with Police, Thugs over Land Grabbing

One Killed, 11 Missing as Two Communities Clash in Akwa Ibom

Sanwo-Olu Orders Police to Impound Vehicles with Covered Number Plate

NCS Onne Command Generates N118.9bn Revenue

FG Pumps N1.62bn into Community Works Project to Boost States Economy

SUN

Court decides legality of APC caretaker committee today

2023: My reservations about president of Igbo extraction ‘Pat Utomi

Irregular COVID-19 results force NWFL league postponement by one month

Achieving financial freedom through Nigerian youth investment fund

Agriculture key to revamping Nigeria’s economy ‘Kwatu, MD, Niger Resources

Lagos to borrow N192bn for infrastructure upgrade

ILO advocates better treatment for workers working from home

Electricity tariff: Labour condemns billing of Nigerians in foreign currency

AIB, NCAA working closely to promote air safety, reduce accidents

Buhari, Abiodun, others mourn ex-minister, Martins-Kuye

Apapa-Oshodi-Ojota-Oworonshoki Expressway ready in April

Stop Buhari from selling govt properties to fund 2021 budget, SERAP tells Lawan, Gbajabiamila

2023: Support group tackles Oladapo over comment on Tinubu

Armed Forces Day: Ikpeazu presents 2 houses to security chiefs

US vows action against election riggers in Uganda

FG reaffirms partnership with Canada on human rights protection

GUARDIAN

How politics, inexperience combine to stall Ogoni clean-up

Ogoni group blames SPDC over pollution of Niger Delta communities

EFCC seeks to upturn Lagos’ ‘pardon’ to three convicts

Police begin clampdown on vehicles with covered number plates

Four policemen die repelling ambush on convoy in Birnin-Gwari

Tension in Lagos estate as homeowners threaten showdown with police, thugs

Ukwa people laud Ikpeazu for emergence of son as Ohanaeze scribe

Investors’ appetite for high dividend stocks pushes index by 2.63%

Experts seek tough regulatory policies to drive insurance growth

Outdated NIMC facilities stalling NIN-SIM linkage

NNPC sells $120.49m volume of oil, gas as trading surplus dips

Ohanaeze crisis deepens as faction heads for court

Unclaimed dividends, dormant account balances safer with government, says CAC

Ekiti earmarks N1.4b for Amotekun, N8b for social services

NAF helicopter gunships destroy 6 more terrorists’ gun trucks in Borno ‘ DHQ

2,663 inmates in Lagos Correction centres in 2020 are awaiting trial ‘DPP

VANGUARD

Biden to issue executive orders to reverse Trump policies

NNPC records ‘28.38bn trading surplus in Sept ‘ Report

IGP lauds police personnel for repelling bandits’ attack

Kugbo Market Fire: Nasarawa State Govt, WOOD-ET AL, throw lifeline to affected traders

Ekiti Govt disowns online training advert

Bandits kill 80-year-old woman, 4 others in parts of Kaduna

COVID-19: Aviation Roundtable urges domestic operators to consider merger

N167.8m: Court discharges lawyer, Oyo State council official over alleged fraud

Ekiti battles insecurity, set aside N1.4bn for Amotekun in 2021 budget

Apapa-Oshodi-Ojota-Oworonshoki Expressway ready in April ‘ FG

Security agencies must synergise to tackle insecurity in Nigeria ‘ Expert

Seven suspects nabbed over gang rape, murder of 11-year-old girl

247 Fulani women receive FG’s Rural Women Cash Grant in Kebbi

Kaduna: Bandits kill 80-year-old woman, 4 others

LG polls: APC sweeps all 44 LG, councilorship seats in Kano

No rift between Obaseki, PDP leaders’ Aziegbemi

2023 Election: We didn’t endorse Tinubu ‘ Ondo, Ekiti former Speakers

COVID-19: Reps want FG to postpone reopening of schools by 3 months

Obiano suspends sale of Anambra’s assets in Enugu state

Trump’s opposition to Biden’ll intensify rivalry between conservatives, other races ‘Fagge

2021 Budget: Ekiti to spendN1.4bn to equip Amotekun, N550m on drones

LASU workers shelve strike over end-of-year bonus, minimum wage arrears

COVID-19: Schools to remain shut in Kaduna except Kadpoly & Open University

We’ll no longer work under pitiable condition, SSANU, NASU tell govt

Suspension of schools’ resumption applies to all educational institutions in Edo ‘ Govt

COVID-19 second wave: Gradely offers free digital training to 5,000 teachers

UNILAG online classes free, not charging ‘50,000 ‘ Management

Experts counsels against multiple sexual partners to forestall Hepatitis B infection

COVID-19: Edo govt to arrest persons without face masks in public

We’ve capacity to conduct 600 COVID-19 tests daily in Edo ‘ Obaseki

Yellow fever: Enugu targets additional 710,149 residents for vaccination

COVID-19: NCDC reports 1,598 new infections, 7 deaths

COVID-19: Treatment centres struggle as oxygen crisis escalates

Four police killed in battle with bandits, one missing ‘ Police

Death of Fr John Gbakaan: Stop killing of religious leaders by bandits, CAN tells FG

17 persons kidnapped in Niger

Fourpolice officers killed in battle with bandits, one missing ‘ NPF

Tension as soldiers threaten to shoot RRS officers over covered number plates in Lagos

Zulum approves N624m scholarship for Borno tertiary institution students

EndSARS: Police frustrating our petition ‘ Counsel tells panel

TRIBUNE

Edo government says tertiary institutions are included in suspension of schools’ resumption

Traditional rulers, Yoruba political chieftains, others to grace PAN Yoruba summit in Ibadan

UNIBEN to bar students who refuse to wear face masks

Nigeria records 1,444 new COVID-19 cases, total now 110,387

Awo Free Education @66: Scholars, experts proffer way forward

Nigeria recorded 70 COVID-19 deaths last week ‘ highest in six months

APC membership revalidation/registration: Tension as chieftains battle for party structures, supremacy

NATION

Ekiti to procure N550m drones to fight kidnapping, banditry

Bandits kill 10 in Zamfara, abduct 17 in Niger

Village razed in Oyo communal clash

Navy arrests suspected oil thieves in Ondo

Fayemi appoints perm sec as judge

#EndSARS panel to start public hearing in Oyo

Police sergeant held in Rivers robbery attack

Kidnapped Ekiti petrol dealer freed

Buni to meet governor, ministers over Kwara APC crisis

How Executive, Senate can kill House of Reps push for better electricity, education, others

Amotekun rescues two cemetery guards

Anambra poll and challenges before INEC, by Yakubu

Southwest PDP: Lagos PDP pledges support for Makinde

Atikus exit paves way for Intels to stay

Stanbic IBTC Asset Management gets AA (IM) rating

Govt should allow forex to float to solve scarcity

Monetary policy will determine share prices

CBN releases framework to boost e-payment adoption

Nigerian stocks buck global downtrend with N552b gain

Four officers killed, one missing as police repel ambush

No resumption date yet for Kaduna schools

How Catholic priest was killed in Niger

JUST IN: Lagos schools to run second term for 61 days

Bandits kill Catholic Priest in Niger

HERALD

Other Nigerians Blame Northerners For Their Problems ‘ Tanko Yakasai

Stop Buhari from selling public properties to fund 2021 budget ‘ SERAP tells Lawan, Gbajabiamila

FG directs foreign diplomats to obtain NIN

Updated: Ex-Minister Martins-Kuye Dies In Lagos

WhatsApp: Threat To User Privacy Started In 2016 ‘ Report

Husband beats Nigerian wife to death in Italy

Interior Designer, Ehi Ogbebor Shows Off Her Lover, MC Oluomo

Those against restructuring don’t understand it ‘ Odigie-Oyegun

DAILY TIMES

2023 election: We didnt endorse Tinubu Ondo, Ekiti former speakers

CAN asks Buhari to stop killing of religious leaders

Experts warn against fresh lockdown

2023: Ohuabunwa joins presidential race

FG approves NIN enrolment centre for diplomats

Fishermen report another oil spill at Chevrons Funiwa oilfield off Bayelsa coastline

2023: Tinubu Ramps Up Support In SWest Ahead of Declaration

Armed Bandits killed 5 police officers in Kaduna LG

Zulum canvasses review of 1999 constitution to allow under 40 contest for office of President

NNPC records $120.49m crude oil receipt in September

DAILY TRUST

States ‘squander’ billions as ruling parties clear LG polls

Kidnapped Ekiti petrol dealer freed

62 shops affected in Lagos market fire

Navy arrests 24 with six boats, 100,000 litres of diesel in Ondo

NCAA D-G to aviation stakeholders: We don’t want blood on our hands

COVID-19: Edo, Kaduna govts suspend school resumption

23, 776 Borno students receive N624m scholarships

4 policemen killed, 1 missing in Birnin-Gwari attack

DisCo to engage 200 communities on revenue collection

No plan to recruit youth to fight banditry – Gov’t

Gunmen killl livestock guard

Relief as Abaji water project takes off after 10 years

Division created by Trump would go away in America

Why Buhari must save the local councils

NDDC: A 2021 Redemption Agenda for Stakeholders

2 years after commissioning, Baro Port remains desolate

BUSINESSDAY

How rising food prices stretch cash-strapped Nigerians’ wallets

Parents, schools stare at empty wallets as students resume today

Food policy: Buhari puts ideology above evidence and rationality

Heirs Holdings’ $1.1bn OML 17 deal a vote of confidence in Nigerian economy

Kehinde Muibi: Entrepreneur building a successful construction business

COVID-19: We must not repeat yesterday’s mistakes

How Oluyemi left pharmacy to build a successful catering business

Fitch sees oil rally lifting Nigeria’s external reserves to 16-month high

NEW TELEGRAPH

FG: NIN registration mandatory for Diplomatic Corps members, others

102 senators sponsor 448 bills, 7 have none

Bandits kill Catholic Priest, kidnap brother, 17 others in Niger

Scores escape death, as fire razes 12 shops, six rooms at Ijeshatedo

Troops destroy 13 suspected terrorists’ gun trucks in 2 operations ‘ DHQ

NIGERIAN PILOT

COVID-19: FCTA reads riot act as schools resume

Stop Buhari from selling govt properties to fund 2021 budget, SERAP tells NASS

NCPC boss commends Buharis vision on Peace Building

MARTE: Coalition applauds Nigerian Army, troops for victory over Boko Haram

Okechukwu to critics: Remember how Govs thwarted Buharis effort to restructure Nigeria

EFCC must investigate Gov. Umahis ownership of multi-billion naira hotel Ebonyi group

Group commends Lalong on security, restoration of peace in Plateau

Insecurity: Is Buhari really under spell’

 

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