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Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines Monday, January 16th 2023

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Below are the Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines from Nigerian Newspapers today:

POLITICS AND NATIONAL NEWS

1. PDP Crisis: Rift With Atiku Not On Personal Terms – Ortom’s Aide

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Benue State government has dismissed reports of a faction in the state’s Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

2. Tension As Fire Guts Petrol Station In Abuja

EKO HOT BLOG reports that there was pandemonium along Abuja-Lokoja Expressway earlier today after a fire gutted a petrol station reportedly belonging to popular full-stream oil and gas company, AA RANO.

3. Deciphering Tinubu’s Economic Strategy And Its Implications For The Road Ahead In Nigeria

Like a ravenous beast consuming everything in its path, Nigeria’s government continues to gobble up debt, with the Debt Management Office forecasting a possible N77 trillion debt by mid-2023. This is unsurprising to many citizens who are well aware of their government’s insatiable appetite for borrowing.

4. The Clock Ticks On, Exceeding Two-year Mark Since #EndSARS, Yet The Plague Of Police Brutality In Nigeria Remains Unabated

The #EndSARS movement, as it quickly came to be known in October 2020, garnered global attention and support as the world watched in horror at the reports of police brutality in Nigeria. Despite the promise of reform, the issue has continued to haunt the country like a ghost from the past.

5. Why Wike, Other G-5 Governors May Pitch Their Tent With Tinubu

Like a chorus of discontent, Governor Nyesom Wike and the other G-5 Governors – Seyi Makinde, Okezie Ikpeazu, Samuel Ortom, and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi – have all united in their fervent rejection of Atiku’s presidential aspirations. It is beyond dispute that these leaders of the People’s Democratic Party have made their opposition to Atiku’s bid known with great conviction.

6. Christmas Day 2022: A Grinch With Cold Hands

Christmas celebration is a commemoration of the miraculous birth of Jesus Christ, the son of God. Each year on December 25th, billions of people around the globe come together to honor this sacred event through religious and cultural celebrations.

7. Troops Arrest 15 ‘Miscreants’ In Lagos

Eko Hot Blog reports that the troops of ‘Exercise Still Water’ of the Nigerian Army have arrested 15 miscreants at the Ojota area of Lagos.

8. Bolanle Raheem: Things To Remember As Court Begins Drambi Vandi’s Trial Today

Eko Hot Blog reports that a Lagos State High Court is set to begin the trial of ASP Drambi Vandi, a policeman who allegedly killed a Lagos-based lawyer, Mrs Bolanle Raheem, on Christmas Day.

9. Gunmen Kill Ex-Afghan MP At Her Home In Kabul

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a former Afghan MP, Mursal Nabizada and her bodyguard have been shot dead at her home in the capital Kabul, Afghan police have said.

10. Burkina Faso- Suspected Jihadists Abduct 50 Women In Arbinda

Eko Hot Blog reports that Residents in Arbinda said two groups of women were taken as they were out gathering leaves and wild fruits because of a severe food shortage.

11. War: Putin Set To Increase Conscript Age In Desperate Bid To Bolster Troop Numbers

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Russian President, Vladimir Putin appears to be plotting to raise the upper age of routine military conscription in Russia in a desperate bid to send more troops to hold the Ukrainian front.

12. UK: Met Office Forecasts Fresh Snow And Ice This Week

Temperatures are set to fall as low as -10C with snow forecast for parts of the UK including London, the South East and Scotland, the Met Office warns.

13. Germany: Police Remove Climate Activists Delaying Coal Mine Expansion

German police say they have removed almost all climate activists from a German village that will be destroyed to allow the expansion of a coal mine.

14. US: New Monument Dedicated To MLK And Coretta Scott King Unveiled

Just a few days before what would have been Martin Luther King Jr.’s 94th birthday, “Embrace,” a monument dedicated to King and his wife, Coretta Scott King, has been unveiled in Boston, where they first met.

15. 3 Natural Ways To Get Rid Of Waist Pain Without Drugs

Pain is something that nearly everyone has experienced. Pain in the waist or lower back might set in after doing something as simple as housework, making it a typical complaint among those who have laboured.

16. Full List Of Nigerians On BBTitans Season: State Of Origin, Relationship, Age

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the special edition of African most famous reality TV show, BBTitians commenced on Sunday, January 15, 2023, with the introduction of the housemates.

17. Conte Names 2 Title Contenders After Arsenal’s 2-0 Win At Tottenham

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Tottenham Hotspur manager, Antonio Conte, has named Arsenal and Manchester City as the two Premier League title contenders this season.

18. Arteta Finally Breaks Silence As Mykhailo Mudryk Snubs Arsenal For Chelsea

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Arsenal manager, Mikel Arteta, has spoken for the first time since one of his transfer targets Mykhailo Mudryk signed for Chelsea.

19. Former Brighton Midfielder In Hospital

Ex-Brighton midfielder Enock Mwepu is in hospital in Zambia after falling unwell, his former club says.

20. Week 28 Pool Results For Sat 14 Jan 2023 – UK 2022/2023 – Pool Agent

Week 28 Pool Results For Sat 14 Jan – UK 2022/2023 – Pool Agent (UK Football) can be accessed below

Top 10 Newspaper Headlines Monday, January 16th 2022

Newspaper Headlines

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Major Newspapers in Nigeria

PUNCH NEWSPAPER

1. Ogun govt prosecutes owner of fake clinic

The Ogun State government says it has commenced the prosecution of the owner of an illegal medical facility in the state for various infractions.

The Commissioner for Health in the state, Dr Tomi Coker, disclosed this, saying, the government had a few weeks ago sealed some health facilities in the Ewekoro Local Government Area of the state for falling short of set standards.

Coker in a statement said the government would leave no stone unturned in combating quackery in the state.

2. Police confirm release of kidnapped Plateau DPO

Barely four days after gunmen kidnapped the Divisional Police Officer in Pankshin Local Government Area of Plateau State, the state command on Sunday confirmed his release.

The PUNCH had reported that the kidnapped police officer identified as Nwapi Augustus was shot in his hotel room in Pankshin by gunmen before they took him away to an unknown destination.

Confirming his release in a statement on Sunday, the spokesman for the state command, Alfred Alabo, said, “Following the kidnap of SP Nwapi Augustus on January 11, 2023, at about 7:30pm by unidentified gunmen to an unknown destination in Pankshin LGA, the Plateau State Police Command in collaboration with other security agencies and hunters in the area, embarked on a rescue mission and eventually unshackled and freed the officer from his captors.

3. Arsenal win derby, go eight points clear at top

Arsenal moved eight points clear at the top of the Premier League with a 2-0 win over Tottenham in the north London derby as Chelsea eased the pressure on manager Graham Potter by beating Crystal Palace 1-0 on Sunday.

Newcastle struck late to beat Fulham 1-0 to reclaim third place and keep alive their title aspirations.

But Arsenal will take some stopping if they are to be denied a first league title since Arsene Wenger’s “Invincibles” in 2003/04 after a first league win away to Tottenham in nine years.

VANGUARD NEWSPAPER

4. Tinubu boosts media team, appoints Jega, Abdulaziz as aides

Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Tinubu has strengthened his media office with the appointment of two new aides.

Mr. Tunde Rahman, Head, of Tinubu Media Office, announced this in a statement released on Sunday.

Those appointed are Mahmud Jega as Special Adviser, Public Affairs and Abdulaziz Abdulaziz as Special Assistant on Media and Publicity

5. Woman, partner to be arraigned in court for physically abusing toddlers

Operatives attached to the Lagos state police command are currently investigating a woman Busola Oyediran and her partner Akebiara Emmanuel for physically abusing her two biological children.

Busola Oyediran and her partner Akebiara Emmanuel who lives with her two children from her failed marriage in the Egbeda area of Lagos were arrested on Friday following reports from neighbours who complained about the constant physical abuse of their children aged 5 and 2 years respectively.

Vanguard learned that Busola Oyediran had two children with her former husband.

According to neighbours, Busola beats the children at every slight provocation inflicting bodily injuries on the two minors

6. Terrorists kidnap 8 women heading to Church in Katsina, beat cleric

Suspected terrorists operating in Kankara Local Government Area of Katsina State on Sunday morning kidnapped no fewer than five women heading to Church for Sunday Worship Service. A Pastor was also reported to have been injured during the attack.

Bello Bello, the Chairman of Community Policing Relation in Kankara LGA who confirmed the report to Vanguard said those kidnapped were all females.

Bello however debunked an earlier report credited to Rev. Ishaya Jurau, the Senior Special Assistant on Christian Affairs to Governor Aminu Bello Masari that the hoodlums kidnapped the worshippers right inside the New Life Church located at Gidan Haruna.

THE NATION NEWSPAPER

7. FG targets five million new jobs from smart agriculture

The Federal Government has announced plans to create five million new jobs from smart agriculture through the National Adopted Village for Smart Agriculture (NAVSA).

The plan proposed a mass agriculture programme to bring 20,000 to 100,000 hectares of new farmland under cultivation in every State of the Federation, the government said at the weekend.

According to the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, Malam Kashifu Inuwa, the programme would add impetus to the economic recovery and diversification efforts of the government and increase revenue generation.

Inuwa explained that from the kick off of the programme, it was evident that more grounds would be covered to boost Nigeria agriculture value chain from “farm to table” and ensure that five million direct and indirect jobs are created in the sector.

8. Buhari off to Mauritania for two-day engagements

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja for Nouakchott, the capital of Islamic Republic of Mauritania on Monday for a official engagements that will last till Wednesday.

According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, while in Nouakchott, Buhari will receive the African Award for strengthening peace, to be presented to him by the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum.

“President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday, January 18, 2023, receive ‘African Award for Strengthening Peace’ in Nouakchott, Islamic Republic of Mauritania, for his leadership role in promoting peace on the continent, through regular inventions, counsels and conciliatory position.

“The award will be presented to President Buhari by the Abu Dhabi Peace Forum, which is an assembly of leaders established in 2014 to pursue new ways to embrace inclusive citizenship, promote lasting peace, and work towards a safer and more sustainable world for everyone

DAILY POST

9. Democracy has come to stay – Ex-army chief Buratai tells military

Former Chief of Army Staff, Lieutenant General Tukur Yusuf Buratai (retd) has tasked members of the armed forces to keep the flag flying as democracy has come to stay in Nigeria.

10. EPL: Arsenal can’t compete with you – Ian Wright tells Chelsea over Mudryk

Arsenal legend Ian Wright has criticised Chelsea’s transfer strategy after the Blues hijacked Arsenal’s deal for Shakhtar Donetsk forward Mykhailo Mudryk.

The Blues completed a €100 million (£88.6m) signing of the Ukraine international ahead of Arsenal.

The player appeared to be heading to the Emirates Stadium but despite the Gunners agreeing personal terms with the winger, the Blues came from behind to sign the Ukrainian.

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