Breaking News from Nigerian Evening Newspapers and Evening News Monday 23rd October 2023
These are Breaking Evening News from popular Evening Newspapers in Nigeria Today .
Read also
‘Nigeria’s petrol daily consumption reduces by 33.58%’
Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), says the country’s domestic consumption of petrol has significantly dropped from 66.7 million litres, before the deregulation, to 44.3 million litres per day. Mr Farouk Ahmed, the Chief Executive of NMDPRA said that the reduction represents about 33.58 per cent daily. Ahmed disclosed this in his keynote
BREAKING: Legislative workers vow to shut down national, state assemblies Wednesday
Workers across the 36 state and the national assemblies say they have concluded all arrangements to lock up their respective workplaces pending when their demands for financial autonomy of the legislative arm of the government would be granted. Daily Trust reports that the workers, under the auspices of Parliamentary Staff Association of Nigeria (PASAN) are
US rejects Mideast ceasefire calls
The United States warned Monday that any Gaza ceasefire by Israel would benefit Hamas, as the European Union considers a call for a humanitarian pause. A ceasefire would “give Hamas the ability to rest, to refit and to get ready to continue launching terrorist attacks against Israel,” State Department spokesman Matthew Miller told reporters. “You
How Nigeria secured victory in P&ID case – FG
The Federal Government on Monday said the judgment rendered by Judge Robin Knowles of the Business and Property Court in London, awarding a landmark victory to the Federal Government of Nigeria over a firm known as Process & Industry Development (P&ID) Limited served as a damning indictment of predatory international investors. Attorney General of the
Tonto Dikeh Dumps ADC For APC
Popular Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh, has detected to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC). The defection was announced by the APC via a post on its X (formerly Twitter) on Monday. According to the post shared by the ruling party, Dikeh, who was the Rivers State deputy governorship candidate of the African Democratic Congress (ADC)
AC Milan make profit for first time since 2006
AC Milan posted an annual profit for the first time since 2006 on Monday after the Serie A giants announced that their 2022/23 season accounts were 6.1 million euros ($6.5 million) in the black. The seven-time European champions bucked a trend of heavy losses among Italy’s top clubs by recovering from a 66.5 million-euro loss
Save girls from cervical cancer with HPV vaccine, Ogun tells parents
The Ogun State Government has appealed to parents and guardians to save their daughters from cervical cancer by ensuring they receive the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine (HPV). This is as the government commenced the statewide HPV vaccination on Tuesday. Speaking with newsmen ahead of the HPV vaccination exercise, the Commissioner for Health, Dr Tomi Coker, urged
Bandits kill hunter, two drivers on Kaduna highway
Bandits have killed a local hunter, Bashir Unguwar Shekarau, and two commercial drivers, Mustapha Adamu and Malam Muktar, well known as “Teacher” along the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna State. It was learnt that the local hunter was fatally shot last Wednesday when their vehicle came under fire while patrolling the highway. The two commercial
Maiduguri Central market reopens 8 months after inferno
The Maiduguri Central market popularly known as “Monday Market” has been reopened for business after eight months of closure due to a fire incident. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the market was completely gutted by fire in February in a midnight inferno that destroyed goods worth billions of Naira. Inaugurating the rebuilt
Falling tree kills 2, injures others in Kwara
Two people have been reportedly killed and several others injured by a branch of a big tree that fell off at Oke-Adini in Ilorin South Local Government Area of Kwara State. Daily Trust gathered that the incident happened around 7: 00 am on Monday. It was gathered that the victims were waiting by the roadside
FEC approves Poverty Alleviation Trust Fund with $5bn
The Federal Government has ordered the establishment of the Humanitarian and Poverty Alleviation Trust Fund, with $5 billion to be sourced annually to run the scheme. The decision to float the trust fund was ratified at the Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by President Bola Tinubu on Monday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. According
FEC approves Poverty Alleviation Trust Fund with $5bn
2024 Olympic Qualifier: Super Falcons quartet ruled out of Ethiopia clash
Nigeria’s Super Falcons will be without the quartet of Halimat Ayinde, Christy Ucheibe, Osinachi Ohale and Regina Otu for Wednesday’s 2024 Olympics qualifier against Ethiopia. The four players have been ruled out of the game due to injury. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has however named a replacement for Ayinde. Former Falconets midfielder, Esther Onyenezide
2024 Olympic Qualifier: Super Falcons quartet ruled out of Ethiopia clash
Zulum opens Monday Market, waives two years’ rent for 8,000 traders
Governor Babagana Umara Zulum of Borno State has commissioned the Maiduguri Monday market, which was rebuilt after it was razed by fire on February 26, 2023. The governor, during the commissioning on Monday, also announced that at least 8,000 traders who rent shops and pay rent to the state government through the market authority will
Zulum opens Monday Market, waives two years’ rent for 8,000 traders
$11bn P&ID debt: Great lesson for Nigerian govt – Shehu Sani
Shehu Sani, a former Kaduna Central senator, said the Process & Industry Development (P&ID) Limited judgement should serve as a big lesson to the Nigerian government. Posting on X, Sani wrote: “It’s a big relief for Nigeria to win the P&ID case in London that would have led to the loss of $11 billion to
$11bn P&ID debt: Great lesson for Nigerian govt – Shehu Sani
Don’t involve in social vices, channel your energy to positive things – Principal tells youths
Youths across the country have been advised to shun social vices and channel their energy to positive things. The Principal of Bodija International Schools, Ibadan, Frank Dairo, gave this advice while speaking at a press conference to herald the maiden edition of Justice Kayode Edo football tournament on Monday in Ibadan. DAILY POST reports that
Don’t involve in social vices, channel your energy to positive things – Principal tells youths
Subsidy: FCT distributes 12,000 bags of rice as palliatives to over 3m residents
The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA) has begun the distribution of 12,000 bags of rice and maize to over three million Nigerians residing across the six area councils of the territory. The FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike, disclosed this on Monday during the distribution ceremony in Kwali Area Council that each of the council would have
Subsidy: FCT distributes 12,000 bags of rice as palliatives to over 3m residents
Bandits kill hunter, three others in Birnin Gwari
Suspected bandits have killed a local hunter and two commercial drivers in the Kaduna-Birnin Gwari area of Kaduna State. Shehu Randagi, a resident of Birnin Gwari and a relative of one of the victims, named the hunter as Bashir Unguwar Shekarau and the two commercial drivers, whose vehicles came under heavy attack from the bandits
Bandits kill hunter, three others in Birnin Gwari
Police nab six suspects who kidnapped nine-year-old in Adamawa
The Adamawa State Police Command said it has arrested no fewer than six suspected kidnappers who demanded a ransom of N5 million for an abducted nine-year-old boy in Mubi South Local Government Area. Police Public Relations Officer SP Suleiman Nguroje, who disclosed this in Yola on Monday, said that the suspects kidnapped the victim, Mustapha
Police nab six suspects who kidnapped nine-year-old in Adamawa
FG outlines solution to forex crisis
Amid the foreign exchange crisis, which led to the depreciation of naira against dollar, the Federal Government has announced plans to automate international exchange transactions to close wide arbitrage and punish naira speculators. Wale Edun, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, disclosed this at Monday’s first-panel session of the 29th Nigeria Economic
FG outlines solution to forex crisis
*-wedding-in-gombe/ NSCDC detains 76 suspected of hosting same-s** wedding in Gombe
The Gombe State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) has arrested at least 76 suspects in connection with their alleged involvement in organising a same-s** wedding event. The Gombe NSCDC Public Relations Officer, Buhari Sa’ad, made this announcement while presenting the suspects to the media at the command’s headquarters in Gombe.
NSCDC detains 76 suspected of hosting same-s** wedding in Gombe
Read also
You can also check
