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NEWS HEADLINES-25 JAN 22

NATIONAL

Nigeria records 241 new cases of COVID-19, total confirmed cases now 252,428. 

FG, Egypt in bilateral talks on electricity supply. 

Cyber, political risks top concerns in Nigeria — Report. 

Gbajabiamila’s office, NBA sign MoU on law reform. 

FG accuses Nigerians of sabotaging social investment programmes. 

APC: Factors that’ll shape successful convention. 

CSOs storm APC, PDP headquarters, demand southern president in 2023. 

We didn’t kill Abiola, Abdulsalami clarifies. 

Family Disagrees With Abdulsalami, Says Abiola Denied Proper Medical Attention. 

Fulani Group Endorses Tinubu For Presidency. 

2023: You Can’t Bully Atiku, Tinubu On Account Of Age – Showunmi. 

2023: Atiku Will Spend Single Term Of Four Years If Elected – Dokpesi. 

Japan-based Nigerian union president joins presidential race. 

FG sets aside PIA, to pay N4.6tr on fuel subsidy. 

Labour set for protest, FG suspends subsidy removal, NBA warns govt. 

UTME, Direct Entry registration begins February 12. 

Rice pyramids amid soaring prices of food items. 

Federal workers’ pensions, gratuities gulp N208bn in seven months. 

SAN, six other lawyers may be sanctioned over conflicting orders. 

IPMAN faults NLC’s planned protest against subsidy removal. 

FG, NASS urged to revisit retirement age in military. 

Army 38: All Eyes on Malami to Act

FAAN kicks as Customs comptroller breaches airport security, seizes gate forcefully. 

BUSINESS

INFLATION: Money supply rises 16.5% to N43.9trn. 

FG probes online banks over breach of customers’ data privacy. 

CBN’s e-invoicing directive will facilitate trade — LCCI. 

Credit to private sector rises 18% to 35.7trn. 

Why CBN Must Sell Dollar To BDCs – Agusto. 

DisCos must go, EKEDC as case study. 

Sacked GMs: After Protest, AEDC Reaches Truce With Unions. 

Economists, stock market wait on monetary tools as MPC meets. 

Petrol subsidy: FG targets 1m vehicles’ conversion to CNG in 3 years. 

NLNG begins hospital support programme, signs MoU with 6 teaching hospitals. 

ACROSS THE STATES

Oyetola inaugurates former Health Minister, SAN, others as chairmen, members of boards. 

You are architect of your trouble, Osun APC faction tells Oyetola. 

Rise in students’ attacks on teachers in Ogun. 

Delta Govt empowers 593 youths on ICT. 

Diri sacks monarch, others as abducted commissioner regains freedom. 

2023: Why I denied nursing any Guber ambition at Lagos retreat — Pastor Umo Eno. 

Rival cult clash in Makurdi claims two lives. 

Kidnapping: Traditional rulers as endangered species in Plateau. 

Use of Hijab/Berret in Schools: Kwara govt insists it’s optional. 

Hanifa’s killers remanded, Kano revokes private schools’ licences. 

Aisha Buhari wants public execution for Hanifa’s killer. 

Hanifa: I’ll Sign Death Warrant Of Killer – Gov Ganduje. 

Four escape death as train crushes tricycle in Kano. 

Kidnappers Gun Down Police Officers In Jigawa, Set Patrol Van On Fire. 

Kebbi NLC mobilises for mass protest against fuel subsidy removal. 

Fleeing kidnappers’ dynamite destroy Catholic College Chapel in Taraba. 

HUMAN ANGLE

Monarch, 4 aides assassinated in Ogun. 

Police arrest man whose lover was found dead in their after fleeing home in P-Harcourt. 

Absence Of FFK’s Estranged Wife Stalls Criminal Defamation Suit. 

Concerns over ‘never-die-habit’ of hanging on buses. 

Alleged kidnap: Kaduna man drags 2 women to court over missing wife, child. 

Again, Prophet Jeremiah Fufeyin assists Nollywood actor, Clem Ohameze with 1.5M after successful surgery. 

Ellen James, US-based Ghanaian beauty queen, philanthropist impacting lives on a global level. 

Josephine Oboh-Macleod makes history in Scottish politics. 

Woman finds $3m lottery ticket in junk email folder. 

INTERNATIONAL

Military says it has seized power in Burkina Faso. 

US troops on high alert over Ukraine stand-off. 

UK Prime Minister confirms scrapping of Covid-19 tests for travelers arriving England. 

PM birthday event held in No 10 during lockdown. 

One killed in gun attack on German students. 

SPORTS

[AFCON 2021] Random jottings: Fans reject Eagles shirts after loss to Tunisia. 

AFCON: We shouldn’t write off Super Eagles, Buhari tells Nigerians. 

Simon apologises to Nigerians, pleads for continuous support. 

Eguavoen set to hand over to Poseiro, denies resignation rumours. 

AFCON: Six dead, many injured in stampede after Cameroon vs Comoros. 

Toure replies ‘disrespectful’ Amr Zaki as Cote d’Ivoire, Egypt go to war. 

Australian Open: America's Keys beats Krejcikova to reach semi-finals. 


GOOD MORNING

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