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NEWS HEADLINES -30 JAN 24

NATIONAL

Tinubu Hosts Atiku’s Ex-Spokesman In France. 

Tinubu, Buhari Congratulate Cardinal Onaiyekan on His 80th Birthday. 

ECOWAS Crisis: ‘Nigeria At Receiving End’. 

ECOWAS: We’re ready to engage Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger — FG. 

FG to inaugurate 37-member committee on new national minimum wage. 

FG asks construction firm to resume work on East-West road. 

Security, Constitution Amendment, Electoral Reforms Top Agenda as Lawmakers Resume Today. 

Growing helplessness of Nigerians over insecurity, by Dakuku Peterside. 

Fresh Worry For Tinubu's Minister As Lawyers Drag Her To Court Over NYSC Violation. 

8,285 candidates register for maiden computer-based WASSCE. 

By-Election: Clear Your Debt So We Can Serve You Better, Air Force Tells INEC. 


BUSINESS

To Stem Naira’s Continuing Decline, CBN Clears Another $500m FX Backlog. 

 1,500 redeployed CBN staff resume at Lagos office. 

Union, Polaris, Keystone Banks’ Investors Contest Takeover. 

NSITF: Taking employees compensation, social security, others to next level. 

Moving FAAN, CBN depts to Lagos makes economic sense — Uzodimma. 

Naira Plunges To 1,500/$ At Parallel Market. 

Flight Cancellations Imminent Over 3-Day Hazy Weather. 

DisCos Collected N99.9bn From N133.3bn Bill In November 2023 – NERC. 

Netherlands’ N4.8trn Agric Exports In 1 Year Dwarf Nigeria’s 4-Year Earnings. 


ACROSS THE STATES

Police rescue nine kidnapped Lagos PDP members. 

N4.8 billion alleged fraud: Judge returns Ibeto's case file to Lagos CJ. 

Oyebanji laments deplorable state of federal roads in Ekiti. 

Three dead, others injured in Ekiti auto crash. 

Gunmen Kill Two Ekiti First Class Traditional Rulers, One Escapes. 

EFCC arraigns impeached Ogun Speaker, Oluomo, over alleged N2.5 billion fraud. 

Ibadan Explosion: Makinde Hails Obi Over Visit, Blasts Atiku. 

Obaseki orders re-accreditation of over 6,500 vigilante personnel. 

Edo Assembly Suspends Member Over Incitement. 

Edo Guber: No list of venues for delegates’ congress yet — PDP. 

Navy nabs 11 over construction of illegal refinery in Rivers. 

Don’t destroy my govt, Fubara tells reappointed commissioners. 

Fubara swears in ex-factional Speaker, Ehie as Chief of Staff. 

Stop insulting Obong Attah, Akpan warns Akpabio. 

Govt orders probe of contamination, death of aquatic lives in Abia community’s stream. 

Nasarawa Postpones Council Polls Indefinitely. 

S/Court: Kano Gov Denies Striking Deal With Tinubu. 

Adamawa Gov Tussle: Supreme Court reserves judgment on Binani’s appeal. 

Borno LG chairmen to sign attendance register four times daily – Zulum. 


HUMAN ANGLE

Japa: Visa schemes Nigerians can use to migrate to Canada. 

Unilorin Student Breaks Global Haircut Record. 

Kidnappers shoot at moving vehicle; man abducted, wife injured. 

 72-year-old retired soldier hangs self in Benue. 

Abductors of Kaduna doctor, husband insist on N100m ransom – Family. 

 Alleged murder: Chidinma confessed to spiking Ataga’s drink, says witness. 

Driver saves passenger from committing suicide in Calabar. 

Labourer sent to jail for stealing meat, tomatoes, gas cylinder. 

Why I quit cross-dressing – Brain Jotter. 

Comedian AY petitions police to arrest content creator over alleged affair with May Edochie. 


INTERNATIONAL

Same-sex blessings: Africans’re special but everyone will gradually accept —Pope Francis. 

Mali, Burkina Faso Send ECOWAS 'Formal Notice' Of Withdrawal. 

South Africa's ANC Suspends Former President Zuma. 

Hostages Release: Hamas Wants 'Complete And Comprehensive Ceasefire' In Gaza. 

Musk announces wireless brain chip implant. 

King Charles III Leaves London Hospital. 


SPORTS

Abia Warriors, NPFL Disagree Over Umuahia Township Stadium Ban. 

Palancas Negras: Peseiro Warns Eagles Against Complacency. 

Shock as Senegal crash out of AFCON after losing on penalties to Cote D’Ivoire. 

AFCON 2023: Cape Verde qualify for quarter-finals after beating Mauritania 1-0. 

Bayern deny Tuchel in talks about Barcelona job. 


GOOD MORNING

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