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NEWS HEADLINES -29 JAN 24

NATIONAL

Incessant travels: CUPP demands fitness test for Tinubu. 

FG orders suspension of remodelling work on section of East-West road. 

Umahi orders arrest of street traders on federal highway. 

Kwankwaso: I'm Determined To End Politics Of Bitterness - Ganduje. 

SERAP to 36 Govs, Wike: Account for over N40tn LGA Allocations. 

We’re fully prepared for Edo, Ondo guber polls — Njoku, APGA chairman. 

Disobedience, Nigeria’s major problem — Zulum. 

Corrupt governance, reason for kidnapping, banditry in North — Shettima. 

We don’t have camps in Okigwe, says IPOB. 

We’ll Push Out More Research For National Development - NIMR DG. 

Kidnapping epidemic: Tracking device shortage hindering police probes – Sources. 

 NDLEA declares beauty queen wanted, nabs Brazil returnee. 

Brazil returnee excretes 60 wraps of cocaine in custody. 


BUSINESS

Forex crises, high import duty depress vehicle, other imports. 

Procurement Act: Don’t Succumb To World Bank’s Blackmail, FG Warned. 

Improper Waste Management: Nigeria losing over N500b yearly. 

NUPRC Warns Companies against Buying Oil, Gas Assets without Due Diligence. 

 Naira: Manufacturers plan general price hike. 

Claim of N3m advert vetting fee false —ARCON. 

Dangote Targets Production Of 61m Tons Of Cement In 2024. 

Firm Pledges $27.29bn To Finance Escravos Seaport Project. 

Access Holdings Gets Approval To Acquire Majority Stake In ARM Pensions. 


ACROSS THE STATES

 Cops who asked Lagos motorist for tinted glass permit identified. 

Police to probe officers who waylaid radio host Ogunbodede in Lagos. 

Travel Agent Charged With Defrauding Woman N5m In Ogun. 

APC accuses Adeleke of destroying civil service by extending HoS tenure till 2026. 

Gov’ship Race: I’m Solution To Edo Problem – Female Aspirant. 

Rivers Community Risks Fire Explosion over Incessant Gas Leakages. 

Rivers: How crisis is making mockery of our democracy —Air Cdr Ochulor (retd). 

Battles Against Me Have Been Fierce – Fubara. 

Police Arrest 79 Suspected Criminals in January in A’Ibom. 

Police arrest fake EFCC officials in Abia. 

Abia probes contamination of community stream. 

Residents, PoS operators decry incessant robbery attacks in Owerri. 

Fire guts two schools in Anambra. 

FCT Revenue Service Goes After Nigerian Who Shut Down Grenada For 7 Days. 

Don’t Be Yahaya Bello’s Rubber Stamp, Kogi East Leaders Tell Ododo. 

8 killed in fresh herders attack on Benue communities. 

Alternative Bank Expands to Kano, Gets Emir’s Endorsement. 

Photos: Kebbi holds mass weddings for over 300 divorcees, widows. 


HUMAN ANGLE

Nabeeha Trends As Police Unveil 'Murderer's' Identity. 

US Professor Accidentally Shot Dead by Security Guard in Osun. 

Bride, brother-in-law, 5 bridesmaids, 6 others die in Niger auto crash. 

 Gunmen abduct school proprietress, Thai expatriate missing in Ogun. 

ONE CHANCE: UNILORIN Student Robbed On Campus. 

Lagos tenant hospitalised as landlady breaks into apartment. 

List of Nigerians who own private jets. 

Kidnapped Unilorin student escapes from abductors in Kwara. 

How my ex-husband brings home girlfriend despite married — Actress Victoria Inyama. 

Burna Boy performing at Grammys is like being knighted, says Grammys scribe, Bartee. 

Why stage plays will not die — Kunle Afolayan. 


INTERNATIONAL

Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger Quit ECOWAS, Say regional bloc Under Foreign Control. 

'You Are Still Part Of Us', ECOWAS Rejects Exit Of Niger, Mali, Burkina Faso. 

Three US troops killed in Middle East drone attack. 

Key UN Gaza aid agency runs into diplomatic storm. 

King Charles III Spends Third Day In London Hospital. 


SPORTS

We Will Keep Improving, Says Super Eagles’ Lookman. 

AFCON: DR Congo to take on Guinea in second quarter-final fixture. 

Liverpool Through To FA Cup Fifth Round. 

Ten Hag set to ‘deal’ with Rashford after striker spotted in nightclub again. 

Sinner Storms Back To Win Australian Open Final. 


GOOD MORNING

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