NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 31ST JANUARY, 2024

NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 31ST JANUARY, 2024

Mary Akanbi

31st January, 2024

Read the latest breaking news headlines, Nigerian news, Entertainment, Sports & Business below;

Naira plunges in ‘official market’, CBN warns forex dealers

Kidnapping epidemic: Abductors demand N100m for Ekiti schoolchildren, teachers

300 stranded Europe-bound Nigerians return from Libya

Nationwide outcry as 30 women remain jailed in Nasarawa

N200,000 minimum wage no longer realistic – Labour

Female soldier beaten by superiors, sent to psychiatric hospital – Son

AU expresses regret as Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger send formal withdrawal notice to ECOWAS

Tinubu condemns killing of traditional rulers in Ekiti, orders immediate rescue of kidnapped pupils

Insecurity: Demand greater accountability from service chiefs, Abbas tells Tinubu

House committee on constitution review meets Wednesday

N136m unpaid loan: Court orders seizure of Senator Umeh’s assets

NBA asks court to void FG’s annual vehicle ownership levy

Falana sues 36 states over N68bn UBEC funds

Police arraign six persons for pirating Toyin Abraham’s movie, Malaika

N4.6bn ONSA fund shared to organise prayers against insecurity — EFCC witness

IG deploys 17 AIGs, 18 CPs in police shakeup

Trapped funds: CBN releases fresh $64.44m to foreign airlines

Canada’s British Columbia bans admission of Nigerian students, others for two years

Sign CDAs or forfeit your licence, Alake tells mining companies

FERMA repairs 102km N’East failed road

Fed govt to ban single-use plastics, styrofoams in MDAs

NRC earns N287m from cargo haulage in three months – Report

Defence College gets advisory council 30 years after establishment

Kogi Poly matriculates 4,349 students as Rector warns against cultism, cybercrime

Court orders Total Nig to pay sacked workers N50m damages

Military committing terror attacks against Igbo —IPOB

Fasoranti remains Afenifere leader not Adebanjo – Secretary

APC chairmanship: Bello disowns campaign posters, says no vacancy in party’s top job

Edo: PDP clears 10 aspirants, APC makes N650m from forms

Sanwo-Olu appoints new heads for LAGESC, LSWMO

Don’t impose taxes, levies on petty traders- Ebonyi gov

1.5m in Benue IDP camps, says Alia

Adeleke imposes curfew as two die in communal clash

Makinde creates post-traumatic centre for Ibadan explosion victims

We’ll rally Northern govs, monarchs to end Poliovirus —Zamfara Gov, Sùltan

Kaduna: Gov Sani receives boy tortured by Almajiri teacher in Suleja, vows prosecution

Imo Assembly asks Uzodimma to recover legislative quarters

Niger drags power ministry, electricity companies to court over N136bn debt

Court bars Anambra govt from imposing caretaker c’ttees on communities

Four women feared killed in Bauchi mining site collapse

WNDD: 5m risk river blindness, elephantiasis in Kaduna

Ondo court remands man, 35, for raping 55-year-old colleague to death

Ogun: Two police inspectors, corporal dismissed for robbery

Guard kills self over ex-wife’s remarriage in Kano

Police raid Imo forest, arrest 5 Fulani abductors

Traditional ruler’s palace, commissioner’s residence burnt in Edo over burial disagreement

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*TODAY IN HISTORY*

*. On this day in 1961, Ham the Chimp travelled into outer space. The chimpanzee survived the US Mercury Program test flight with just a bruised nose.

*. On this day in 1996, a suicide bombing in Sri Lanka killed 91 people. Separatist Tamil Tigers detonated a truck loaded with explosives in front of the central bank in Colombo.

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