Nigerian Newspapers Headlines, Tuesday, 9 February 2021

Nigerian Newspapers Headlines

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Trump wants impeachment trial dismissed

Fani-Kayode leads talk with APC, four PDP govs plan defection

Hoodlums disrupt another APC meeting in Kwara, vandalise cars

Why PDP must retake Anambra governorship Wike

Northern groups back Gumi, demand national grazing policy

APC tackles Obiano for declaring curfew from US

Edo stray bullet victims mother demands N50m compensation, boys genital damaged

How Bayelsa lost OML 46, by Sylva

Petrol landing cost rises to N180, oil crosses $60

IMF rules out Nigerias full economic recovery before 2022

FG planning to replace BVN with NIN Minister

Customs intercept N788.18m smuggled rice, PMS from Seme border

2.85 million farmers benefitted from anchor borrowers programme CBN

FG warns foreign investors against enslaving Nigerians

NDDC: Metamorphosis of Niger Delta interventionist agency turning into politicians cash cow

AfDB to promote youth enterprise bank, says Adesina

Govt releases N37bn COVID-19 survival fund

E-payment transactions rise by 50.3%, hit N162.95tn

Stock market extends losing streak, sheds N80bn

Stock market begins new trading week with 0.35% loss

Three Chinese miners abducted in Osun freed

El-Rufai, Bello oppose Gumis peace shuttle, IPOB attacks cleric

Abductors of man conveying brothers corpse to Enugu demand N5m

Buratai reels out achievements as COAS, says Im not a politician

Senate debates service chiefs, ambassadorial nominees, others as National Assembly resumes

Fleeing Fulani herdsmen return to Ogun community

Kaduna sex party: Police witnesses disagree on suspects, incident

Buharis COVID-19 jail threat: States list enforcement obstacles as Nigerians shun compliance

DSS arrests, releases SSANU, NASU officials over ongoing strike

Corruption thrives because offenders are not jailed Amaechi

10 suspects arrested, weapons seized in Benue communal conflict

Lagos demolishes Banana Island, Ikoyi houses over violations

Ibarapa land now free of killer herdsmen, resident safe Amotekun

AU allocates 42 million vaccine doses to Nigeria, CACOVID donates oxygen

Five killed in Plateau attacks, Zamfara bandits surrender 28 AK-47 riffles

Provocative sermons: JNI backs Ganduje for ban on Islamic cleric

Amotekun arrests 15 illegal gold miners in Ondo

NDLEA recovers N3bn illicit drugs in Kogi

Kidnap epidemic: Police arrest 13 suspects in FCT, Taraba

Ayade swears in Justice Ikpeme as Cross River Chief Judge

#OccupyLekkiTollGate: Nobody will bring Lagos down, says Sanwo-Olus aide

First sitting US congressman, Wright, dies of COVID-19

TI on Nigerias deep-seated culture of graft

No sex party in Kaduna, police witnesses tell court

BREAKING: Again, FG postpones National Sports Festival

ICPC arraigns two FRSC officers for extorting motorists

Bandits dont deserve mercy, El-Rufai tells Gumi

FG seals Abuja laboratory for issuing fake COVID-19 results

LASU postpones exam indefinitely as workers shut campus

IGP didnt pay N2bn for tenure extension Police

13 cases of UK COVID-19 variant now in Nigeria PTF

Senate to debate Fulani herdsmen crisis Tuesday                                                                             

THISDAY

INEC Commits to Equitable Distribution of Extra Polling Units

Citing Safety, FG Bars Private Sector COVID-19 Vaccination

Afenifere Seeks Foreign Intervention to Combat Herdsmen Crisis

Buratai: I’m Not Bothered by Opposition to My Nomination as Ambassador

Buhari Lauds Chinese Support for Nigeria

BUA Advocates Liberalisation of Cement Policy to Crash Price

Petrol Retailers Raise the Alarm over Rising Depot Price

Gambari Leads FG’s Delegation to Condole with Momoh’s Family

Insurgency: Again, Army Chief, Attahiru Visits Troops in Borno

DPR Licenses Firm to Establish LNG, Condensate Floating Plant

Boko Haram Landmines, Informants in 13 LGs Threaten Military Operations in…

PIB Passage Will See Changes to Oil Companies Taxes, Says Ahmed

DPR Licences Firm to Establish Condensate Floating Plant

Moghalu Faults CBNs Action on Cryptocurrency Transactions

FG Hands Over 2.5km Internal Roads to Maiduguri Varsity

FG Targets 5m Jobs in Agricultural Sector

NNPC Negotiates Terms with Oil Majors to Retain Investments

LCCI Calls for Urgent Resolution of Security, Policy Challenges in Oil Sector

Moghalu Urges CBN to Reconsider Ban on Cryptocurrency Transactions

Pregnant Unmarried Policewoman: Ekiti AG Sues IGP

Stock Market Sheds N368bn as Investors Take Profit

NCC, Others to Strengthen Collaboration with FIRS

SUN

Nomination of ex-service chiefs as ambassadors worrisome ‘Uwazuruike, ex-president Aka Ikenga

Gov. Yahaya Bello advocates politics without bitterness as he receives Fani-Kayode

Ayade swears in Justice Ikpeme as CJ after 13 months legal tussle

APC membership registration’ll enhences party’s performance in 2023- Hon. Komsol

Okagbare records new records in Arkansas Indoor tourney

Cryptocurrency: ABCON backs ban to prop anti-money laundering stance

NSE: Equities down by 0.34% as investors lose N74bn

Nigeria rejects advice to devalue currency ‘IMF

Nigerian youths plan #OccuppyLekkiTollGate to protest reopening

2023: Igbo should negotiate power with other zones Ex-CJ, Umeadi

Alleged money laundering: Court grants Kalus request to challenge retrial by EFCC

Parliamentary workers issues 21-day ultimatum for full implementation of financial autonomy

Stop comparing Fulani herdsmen, bandits with freedom fighters IPOB tells Gumi

GUARDIAN

CBN sticks to unpopular option on digital currency

Removal of traditional rulers by governors: Only law should determine what is gross misconduct, say lawyers

Our vision for Ekiti as a place to live, work, play is being fulfilled, says Fayemi

First sitting US congressman dies after Covid diagnosis

Reps panel seeks explanation on NNPC’s withdrawal of $20.3b from NLNG account

Nigeria to receive BUA-purchased COVID-19 vaccines next week

Girl kills mother with hot water, injures other over detergent

Presidency justifies lobbying as senate begins hearing on ex-service chiefs

Protests brewing in Lagos as judicial panel hands over Lekki toll gate

NOUN staff resolve to join ASUU

INEC reviews five-year election strategic plan

Fani-Kayode meets Bello, Buni, may defect to APC

Police arrest 19 suspected cultists over mayhem in Lagos

Tension grips Ogun communities as herders allegedly butcher farmer

Man bags life imprisonment for raping 14-year-old in Ekiti

Nigerian Army sponsors Blessing’s bone marrow transplant in India

Gunmen abduct relative conveying dead body in Edo

Lagos to build more schools to check out-of-school children

India glacier disaster leaves 26 dead, workers hunt for survivors

Okagbare ‘excited’ after setting two personal bests in one night

Pandemic takes mental health toll on US youngsters

VANGUARD

Lagos Assembly passes motion banning illegal sales of COVID-19 pandemic drugs

Ex-Katsina LG Chair lands in trouble for allegedly abetting bandits

2023: INEC inaugurates C’ttee to develop Election Project Plan

Brent approaches $60/pb as supply cuts, stimulus hopes lift prices

Kwara APC crisis deepens as party scribe rejects registration officials

Gov Ugwuanyi emerges new PDP leader in South East

Kaduna LGs get N152.4m performance grants

Bitcoin hits record near $45,000 after Tesla investment of $1.5bn

Bitcoin hits record high above $43,000

Nigeria records 28,876 tobacco smoking-related deaths annually’ Research

Covid-19: South Africa suspends use of AstraZeneca vaccine

Cultists’ clash: Police arrest 19 in Lagos

Lawmaker wades in as renewed Luu-Sue, Zor-Sogho war claims 5

COAS tasks troops to hasten fight to end insurgency in N/East

COVID19: Resident Doctors shun government Plea, embark on strike in Nasarawa

11 year-old boy demands N50m compensation over police stray bullet that hits his scrotum

BUA pays for one million doses of AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccines, promises 5m more

Violence rages as warring communities fight on

Allow govs conduct Anambra congresses, guber primary ‘ Wike tells PDP NWC

500,000 women in Commonwealth countries living with Cervical Cancer, says CMA

We are going to debate farmers, herders clash ‘ Senate

LEADERSHIP

Joe Biden Has Started On A Wrong Note

Minimum Wage: FCTA Set To Screen 17,000 Teachers In 12 Days

There Was No Sex Party In Kaduna, Police Witnesses Tell Court

N7.1bn Fraud: Court Grants Kalu Leave To Challenge Retrial

We’ll Not Tolerate Industrial Slavery, PCC Warns Foreign Firms

2021 Vital Year For China-Nigeria Relations ‘ PMB

UK Defends AstraZeneca Vaccine After South Africa Halts Roll-out

Fear Of Arrest Forces Kano Residents To Wear Face Masks

IGP’s Tenure Extension, Prerogative Of President ‘ Police

COVID-19: Anxiety As Nigeria Records 13 Cases Of British Variant

ACF, el-Rufai Kick Against Compensation For Bandits

Ambassadorial Nomination: Presidency Denies Lobbying Senators Over Ex-Service Chiefs

IMF Asks Nigeria To Establish Unified Exchange Rate

Diaspora Group Wants Kogi Governor To Contest 2023 Presidency

Again, COVID-19 Forces Postponement Of National Sports Festival

Lagos Demolishes Illegal Structures On Waterfront To Restore Shorelines

el-Rufai To Sheihk Gumi: Don’t Waste Your Time Negotiating With Bandits

Police Arrest 27 From Criminals Hideouts In Lagos

Ayade Swears In Cross River’s First Female Chief Judge, Charges Her On Justice To All

USDonates Critical Diagnostic Equipment To Nigeria’s TB Control Programme

PMB Has No Anti-Igbo Agenda, Says Igbo Leader

There Was No Sex Party In Kaduna, Police Witnesses Tells Court

TRIBUNE

NBET’s payment shortfall to GenCos hits N865bn in 21 months ‘ Report

Kwara APC sues for peaceful conduct during registration

Edo 2020: Sports festival postponed for fourth time

COVID-19: Nigeria records 643 new infections, six deaths

FG set to modify Nigeria’s education system

Bitcoin hits record near $45,000 after Tesla investment

We did not see any sex party in Kaduna,’ police witness tells court

New rail, port development will increase GDP contribution by seven per cent ‘ FG

#EndSARS: Mother of 11-yr-old boy hit by stray bullet in genitals demands N50m compensation

IGP didn’t pay N2bn for extension of service ‘ Police

We’re not in a hurry to confirm ex-service chiefs as non-career ambassadors, says Senate

NATION

Seven feared killed as uneasy calm returns to Osun communities

Experts project $6 trillion loss to cybercrime

Communal crisis: Lawmakers, others search for peace in Ogoni

PDP governors tackle Secondus over Anambra poll, others

Aig-Imoukhuede Institute commences leadership programme for public servants

Presidency justifies lobbying as Senate set to screen Buratai, others as ambassadors

Why Fed Govt revoked Bayelsa OML 46 licence, by Sylva

IPOB to Gumi: Stop comparing us with terrorists

Momoh: Weve lost a valuable member of human community, says Buhari

Naira overvalued at official market, IMF tells CBN

Final forfeiture of Patience Jonathans $5.8m, N2.4bn for hearing April 13

Petrol scarcity looms as depots shutdown

Presidency justifies lobbying as Senate sets to screen ex-Service Chiefs

DAILY TIMES

NNPC Records 54% Increase in Trading Surplus for November

NAFDAC shuts down factory for revalidating expired food spices

WBank tasked on electricity projects in Nigeria, $500 million fresh aid

Ministry, CBN collaborate to ensure provision of NIN through BVN

Gombe joins 7 states to receive FGs free inputs distribution to smallholder farmers

Gov. Ayade swears-in Justice Ikpeme as C River CJ after 10 months

52 Governorship aspirants, others defect to PDP in Bayelsa

Facebook blocked in Myanmar after users protest military coup

Why Nigeria, 7 other countries banned digital currency trading

DAILY TRUST

Local vigilantes arrest three informants in Kaduna

NDLEA recovers illicit drugs worth over N3bn

Troops recover weapons from group loyal to late bandit, Kachalla

Boko Haram: PEF donates operational vehicles to NSCDC

Lagos police beef up security ahead of another #EndSARS protest

NACA: Nigeria plans to end HIV/AIDS transmission in 3yrs, identifies N1.2m patients

Nigerian universities and COVID-19 protocols

Doctors fault JOHESU over MDCN bill, others

HERALD

Police deny IGP paid N2bn for tenure extension

Buhari expresses satisfaction as China-Nigeria relations clock 50

Afenifere backs Soyinka, says farmers-herdsmen clashes capable of causing civil war

Nengi Bags New Ambassadorial Deal With Tech Company

Ikorodu Bois nominated for Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards 2021

Queen Elizabeth influenced law to conceal private wealth ‘ Report

Crypto ban will trigger stock market rebound ‘ Experts

BUSINESSDAY

Updated: Oil’s remarkable rise to pre-pandemic levels could be big catalyst for Nigeria

Here are reasons Beechwood Park 2 is haven for investment, homeownership

Nigeria’s transportation sector: Climate change and adaptation strategies (1)

Fashola sees opportunities as ICRC certifies federal highway initiative

The cost of militancy in the Niger Delta

IMF confirms Nigeria digging deeper into financial crisis

DAILY INDEPENDENT

Insecurity: Amotekun Should Rise Up To Its Responsibility ‘Agunbiade

NNPC Rakes In N2.015 From Fuel Sales

Bi-Courtney Imports $500,000 X-Ray Machines

Imperatives For More Universities In Delta

Iran Seeks First US Step Toward Nuclear Deal

NIGERIAN PILOT

Sheikh Gumi sponsoring bandits in the North Nnamdi Kanu

UBEC to build digital schools in Nigeria- Bobboyi

Death of co-accused stalls EFCCs arraignment of ex-FCT Ministers CoS

Stranded NDDC scholars charges new Sole Administrator to prioritize payment of stipends

Northern elders applaud Sheik Gumi for taking the step to end banditry in Nigeria

President Buhari compensates outgoing service chiefs with ambassadorial slots

NEW TELEGRAPH

Buhari’s reward for ex-Service Chiefs

Again, Nigerian varsities back in trenches

AAUA sacked lecturers, admin staff reinstated

A gathering of men behind the wheels of music

Provost, others task students on skill acquisition

COVID-19: Nestl donates water, sanitation facilities to Ogun schools

Runsewe: Abuja Crafts Village now free from criminals

S’west France hit by heavy floods, Paris area on flood alert

Civil War comments: Arrest Soyinka now, Northern Elders tell FG

 

 

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