*SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 27/02/2024*
Punch
12 years after, Tinubu adopts Oronsaye report, merges agencies
20 years after, Tinubu launches $800m Aba power plant
Customs suspend rice sale after seven die in stampede
CBN sells over $300m to banks as naira gains
FG/NLC meeting ends in deadlock, Labour insists on protest
Treason: Court decides Kanu’s bail application March 19
SANs list expectations as S’Court Justices rise to 21
Court to hear suit demanding pro-Wike lawmakers’ sacking
FEC approves N1tn for 700km coastal highway
FG to pay youth unemployment benefits, sets up consumer credit programme
FG to close Third Mainland Bridge for 24 hours Wednesday
Adamawa, Jos, others to experience blackout Tuesday – TCN
Marketers await Dangote fuel, four weeks after production take-off
Analysts foresee interest rate hike as MPC holds meeting
Wema Bank hosts forum on international trade
NECO releases 2023 results, says malpractices reduced by 25.4%
NARD faults call to export doctors for forex earnings
Faction opts out as bakers begin strike Tuesday
Edo: Ighodalo gets certificate today, PDP begins reconciliation
Ekiti unveils N12bn Economic Relief Programme
Zamfara Assembly suspends eight members for alleged misconduct
Kogi council chair sacked for alleged palliatives diversion
LASTMA to sanction officers operating with yellow buses
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The Nation
Tinubu promises to address Nigeria’s power challenge
Tinubu directs creation of youth unemployment benefits
Shettima: Tinubu determined to restore Southeast’s industrial status
Senate panel screens Bakari as NFIU boss
Southwest speakers demand state police, power devolution
Don’t allow personal ambition becloud your sense of judgment – CJN tells new Supreme Court justices
No memo to increase states to 42, says Kalu
NSCDC operatives arrest 51 illegal miners in Abuja
ASUU: varsity lecturers on same salary for 15 years
JAMB closes 2024 UTME registration
Due process followed in Mambilla Hydro-Power project, says contractor
APC members protest results of gov primary election in Edo
I’m not leaving PDP, says Ortom
We must repair our economy to free people from poverty, says Makinde
Probe billions of dollars spent in power sector since 1999, Uzodimma tells FG
Protesters storm Lagos streets, demand end to hunger, hardship
Ondo fuel attendant hospitalised after 15 days in captivity
* On this day in 2002, a Muslim mob set fire to a train carrying Hindu pilgrims. The attack killed 59 people, including many women and children.
* On this day in 1932, the neutron is discovered. English physicist James Chadwick was later awarded the Nobel Prize for his discovery.