Major Nigeria Newspaper headlines & Naija News Today, Wednesday, December 7th, 2022 can be accessed below.
Below are the Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines from Nigerian Newspapers today:
POLITICS AND NATIONAL NEWS
1. Tinubu Speaks On Source Of His Wealth And Alleged Allocation Of Lagos Revenue
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Bola Ahmed Tinubu has opened up on his source of wealth.
2. Atiku, Wife Visit Ooni Of Ife Amid Election Preparations (Photos)
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and his wife, Titi Abubakar on Tuesday visited the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi.
3. IPOB: ‘Shun Sit-at-home Order’ – Anambra Govt Urges Indigenes
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Anambra State government has urged its indigenes to shun the sit-at-home protest announced by a faction of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB.
4. Three Men ‘Hack’ POS Platform To Steal N16m
Eko Hot Blog reports that the Nigeria Police Force (NPF) has arrested three suspects for hacking a Point of Sale (POS) platform to steal N16 million in Oyo State.
SPECIAL REPORT
5. COP27 Resolution: A Justification Of Tinubu’s Viral Climate Change Comments?
The world is currently in a climate emergency, and Nigeria is not exempted from the devastating effects of this crisis. Recently, Nigeria experienced its worst flooding disaster in more than ten years. The flooding, attributed to climate change, killed more than 600 people and affected more than two million Nigerians. Interestingly, experts have asked people in flood-prone areas to brace up for worse next year.
6. Electoral Violence: The Biggest Challenge To Nigeria’s Democratic System
Since its independence in 1960, Nigeria’s electoral history and democratic development have frequently contained ‘violence’. The time leading up to, during, and following elections always sees an escalation of different forms of this threatening act across the nation.
7. Why Lagos State Has Sustained The Frontline Of Transformations
While no state government has overtly admitted to drawing inspiration and making imitations of Lagos, there are telltale signs of replicated patterns ideated by Lagos. Lagos is the first past the winning post. Sanwo-Olu’s terrain is not called the “Center of Excellence for Fun.”
8. Joe Biden And Kamala Harris Might Bury A Century-Old Menace
The concept of student loans is not alien to the American tertiary education system. An average American undergraduate or postgraduate student either owes a student loan or knows someone who does. A student loan is a financial assistance rendered to a student in post-secondary education to cover tuition and related expenses, including books, supplies, and living costs.
9. Is Cristiano Ronaldo Still Old Trafford Hero Or A Villain?
On Tuesday, 31st August 2021, social media was ablaze with Manchester United’s delightful announcement of the signing of Cristiano Ronaldo from Juventus on a two-year contract with the option to extend for a year further. Almost every Manchester United fan was delighted to hear the return of the “Old Trafford hero” as most people believed he would help bring back the glory days that Manchester United is known for.
INTERNATIONAL
10. Meta Threatens To Remove US news Content
Eko Hot Blog reports that It objects to a new law that would give news organisations greater power to negotiate fees for content shared on Facebook.
11. War: Macron Hands Putin Trump Card As French President Makes ‘Very Dangerous’ Claim
EKO HOT BLOG reports that French President, Emmanuel Macron on Saturday said that the West should think of “guarantees” to give to Russia when the war in Ukraine is over.
12. Court Finds Trump’s Company Guilty Of Tax Fraud
Eko Hot Blog reports that the Supreme Court in Manhattan, New York, United States, has convicted former President Donald Trump’s family real estate business of tax fraud and other financial crimes.
13. War: Defiant Zelensky Visits Ukraine Soldiers Near Frontline As Drone Strikes Hit Russia
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky has visited troops in the eastern Donetsk region, which Russia claims as its own after a sham referendum.
14. Family Of Late Jan. 6 Police Officer Refuse To Shake Hands With GOP’s McConnell, McCarthy
The family of a deceased Capitol police officer refused to shake hands with Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., during a ceremony Tuesday honoring U.S. Capitol Police and D.C. Metropolitan Police.
15. US Midterms: Warnock Wins Georgia Runoff Election
Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock defeated Republican challenger Herschel Walker in a Georgia runoff election Tuesday, ensuring Democrats an outright majority in the Senate for the rest of President Joe Biden’s term and helping cap an underwhelming midterm cycle for the GOP In the last major vote of the year.
16. Georgia Loss, Tax Fraud Doesn’t Bode Well For Trump’s Campaign
The Trump train is stuck in the station, and it was weighed down Tuesday with the new baggage of corporate tax-fraud convictions and a final midterm defeat.
ARTICLE
17. 5 Reasons You Keep Waking Up In The Middle Of The Night
A persistent midnight awakening, especially if it occurs involuntarily, can be a real pain in the neck. There are so many factor that count be responsible for this.
SPORT
18. World Cup 2022: Real Reason Ronaldo Was Benched Against Switzerland Revealed
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Portugal manager Fernando Santos says Cristiano Ronaldo was not dropped for the World Cup round of 16 win over Switzerland because of his conduct in a previous match.
19. Van Gaal Reveals How Messi Will Help Netherlands Beat Argentina In Quarter Final
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Holland manager, Louise van Gaal has revealed Lionel Messi’s flaws the Netherlands will capitalise on to beat Argentina in their FIFA World Cup quarter-final clash on Friday.
20. World Cup: Portugal To Play Giant Slayers Morocco After Battering Switzerland
Eko Hot Blog reports that Portugal thrashed Switzerland 6-1 in their Round of 16 clash to advance to the quarter-finals of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
21. Week 22 Pool Result For Sat 3 Dec 2022 – UK 2022/2023 -Pool Agent
EKO HOT BLOG reports that the week 22 pool fixtures are for forty-nine (49) football matches for UK football 2022/2023 from the pool agent.
Top 10 Newspaper Headlines Tuesday, December 6th 2022
Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Major Newspapers in Nigeria
PUNCH NEWSPAPER
1. Adeleke urges Osun workers to be dedicated
Osun State Governor, Senator Ademola Adeleke, has urged workers in the state to be dedicated to their duties.
Adeleke also assured them that no one would be denied of their entitlements by his administration.
The governor disclosed this at the swearing-in ceremony of the newly appointed Head of Service, Mr Samuel Aina, at the Government Secretariat in Osogbo on Tuesday.
A statement by the spokesperson to the governor, Olawale Rasheed, also said Adeleke projected a new lease of life for workers in the state under his administration.
2. Chatham House: APC ‘window-dressing’ Tinubu – Dele Momodu
The Director, Strategic Communications of the National Election Management Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Dele Momodu, Tuesday, chided the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Bola Tinubu, over what he called his less than impressive engagement with his audience at the Chatham House, United Kingdom, on Monday.
Momodu said chieftains of the APC were ‘window-dressing’ Tinubu on a global stage.
Tinubu’s performance has continued to draw mixed reactions, particularly from the opposition parties who were left unimpressed by the candidate’s decision to throw some of the questions he was asked to the APC chieftains including the Kaduna State governor, Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, and immediate past governor of Ekiti State, Kayode Fayemi.
In a piece titled, “Weep not for Tinubu but Nigeria,’ Momodu slammed the handlers of the former Lagos state governor for causing the nation a huge embarrassment on a global stage.
3. Spain-born Hakimi sends Morocco to World Cup quarter-finals
After a fierce 123 minutes of game time at the Education City Stadium in Qatar, Morocco did the impossible to defeat 2010 World Cup winners Spain 3-0 on penalties.
In a fabulous performance, Morocco’s goalkeeper, Yassine Bounou saved all three penalties from the Spanish side.
Morocco for the first time advanced to a World Cup quarter-finals.
Achraf Hakimi struck the decisive penalty in a shootout to send Morocco into the World Cup quarter-finals for the first time on Tuesday as the African side stunned Spain after a goalless draw, AFP reported.
VANGUARD NEWSPAPER
4. eNaira transactions hit N8bn – CBN
The Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, has revealed that the eNaira application has so far recorded a total digital transaction valued at about N8 billion as at the end of October, 2022.
Recall that the eNaira was launched on the 25th of October, 2021 by President Muhammadu Buhari, under the slogan: “Same Naira, More Possibilities” thereby listing Nigeria as the first country in Africa and one of the pioneer countries in the world to develop an official digital currency.
The Director of Information Technology, CBN Hajiya Rakiyat Mohammed who made the disclosure on Monday at the Presentation and Unboarding of e-Naira session during the Second Africa Payment Systems Conference in Abuja went further to state that customers who are currently on the eNaira platform will at the moment continue to enjoy seamless peer to peer transactions are at no charge.
Represented by the Deputy Director Information Technology of CBN, Abayomi Oyeleke, said that Nigerians who buy into the e-naira platform stand to gain a lot benefits including real-time transactions on a secured digital wallet with zero down time adding that the project is supported with a very resilient blockchain technology.
5. Brain drain in medical sector, a disaster waiting to happen – Gani Adams
The Aareonakakanfo of Yoruba land, Iba Gani Adams, on Tuesday, urged the Federal Government to save the medical sector from imminent collapse, saying the present brain drain in the sector is like a disaster that is waiting to happen.
Adams said this at the 2022 edition of Elegbara Festival held in Shasha, Lagos.
He bemoaned the plight of the Nigerian doctors that have been leaving the country in droves.
6. Again, Reps approve Peace Corps establishment bill
House of Representatives, Tuesday, passed a bill to establish the Nigeria Peace Corps.
The Corps is to essentially facilitate peace and the security of local communities and neighbourhoods.
It will be recalled that both chambers of the National Assembly, the House and the Senate had in 2017, passed the Nigerian Peace Corps Establishment Bill 2016.
But President Muhammad Buhari withheld his assent to the Bill, saying there was no money for such establishment and there was a duplication of functions of conventional security agencies
THE NATION NEWSPAPER
7. Buhari off to Guinea-Bissau Wednesday
President Muhammadu Buhari will on Wednesday in Bissau, Guinea Bissau be decorated with the country’s highest honour in recognition of his contributions to the political stability of the West African nation.
This was contained in a statement on Tuesday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.
Buhari will honour the invitation of Guinea Bissau President, Umaro Sissolo Embalo for the special ceremony at the Presidential Villa, which will include the commissioning of a road named after him at the capital city.
8. 2023 polls will be free, fair, Buhari assures
President Muhammadu Buhari Tuesday has reiterated the 2023 general elections would be free, fair and credible. He said his administration will not allow manipulations of any form.
According to a statement by his Special Adviser on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, the President spoke while playing host to West African Elders Forum Pre-Election Mediation Mission, led by former Sierra Leonean President, Dr. Ernest Bai Koroma, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
“Thank you for accepting to do this service for our sub-region,” the President told his guests, citing off-season elections held in Anambra, Ekiti and Osun States, as pointer to the fact that the Federal Government would allow people to choose leaders they want.
DAILY POST
9. Wike: Supreme Court dismisses alleged DSS interrogation of CJN
The Supreme Court on Tuesday evening in Abuja, dismissed an insinuation that the Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN, Olukayode Ariwoola was subjected to Interrogation by the Department of the State Service DSS over alleged pro-Wike political remarks.
The Apex Court also debunked claims that five Justices of the Court have demanded resignation from office by CJN over the same issue.
In a statement by the Director of Information and Press of the Court, Dr Festus Akande, the Apex Court warned those peddling the rumours to desist in their own interests.
The reaction of the Supreme Court is in response to a publication by an online medium, “People’s Gazette,” which reported that Justice Ariwoola has been grilled by DSS over his alleged political remarks in Port Harcourt at a public function.
10. World Cup: Just a counter team – Louis van Gaal dismisses Brazil
The Netherlands, manager Louis van Gaal, has dismissed Brazil as ‘just a counter team’.
This is despite the South Americans blowing away South Korea 4-1 in a Round of sixteen game on Monday
The Selecao goals came through the boots of Real Madrid’s Vinicius Junior, PSG’s Neymar, Tottenham forward Richarlison and Lucas Paqueta.
And Van Gaal was less blown away by Brazil’s approach to the game and could not help but notice the similarities with his own team.
Asked if he watched Brazil’s match, Van Gaal told NOS: “Yes, a counter team. But then I had to read in the Dutch media how beautiful it was!
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