SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 31/01/2024Naira plunges in ‘official market’, CBN warns forex dealersKidnapping epidemic: Abductors demand N100m for Ekiti schoolchildren, teachers300 stranded Europe-bound Nigerians return from LibyaNationwide outcry as 30 women remain jailed in NasarawaN200,000 minimum wage no longer realistic – LabourFemale soldier beaten by superiors, sent to psychiatric hospital – SonAU expresses regret as Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger send formal withdrawal notice to ECOWASTinubu condemns killing of traditional rulers in Ekiti, orders immediate rescue of kidnapped pupilsInsecurity: Demand greater accountability from service chiefs, Abbas tells TinubuHouse committee on constitution review meets WednesdayN136m unpaid loan: Court orders seizure of Senator Umeh’s assetsNBA asks court to void FG’s annual vehicle ownership levyFalana sues 36 states over N68bn UBEC fundsPolice arraign six persons for pirating Toyin Abraham’s movie, MalaikaN4.6bn ONSA fund shared to organise prayers against insecurity — EFCC witnessIG deploys 17 AIGs, 18 CPs in police shakeupTrapped funds: CBN releases fresh $64.44m to foreign airlinesCanada’s British Columbia bans admission of Nigerian students, others for two yearsSign CDAs or forfeit your licence, Alake tells mining companiesFERMA repairs 102km N’East failed roadFed govt to ban single-use plastics, styrofoams in MDAsNRC earns N287m from cargo haulage in three months – ReportDefence College gets advisory council 30 years after establishmentKogi Poly matriculates 4,349 students as Rector warns against cultism, cybercrimeCourt orders Total Nig to pay sacked workers N50m damagesMilitary committing terror attacks against Igbo —IPOBFasoranti remains Afenifere leader not Adebanjo – SecretaryAPC chairmanship: Bello disowns campaign posters, says no vacancy in party’s top jobEdo: PDP clears 10 aspirants, APC makes N650m from formsSanwo-Olu appoints new heads for LAGESC, LSWMODon’t impose taxes, levies on petty traders- Ebonyi gov1.5m in Benue IDP camps, says AliaAdeleke imposes curfew as two die in communal clashMakinde creates post-traumatic centre for Ibadan explosion victimsWe’ll rally Northern govs, monarchs to end Poliovirus —Zamfara Gov, SùltanKaduna: Gov Sani receives boy tortured by Almajiri teacher in Suleja, vows prosecutionImo Assembly asks Uzodimma to recover legislative quartersNiger drags power ministry, electricity companies to court over N136bn debtCourt bars Anambra govt from imposing caretaker c’ttees on communitiesFour women feared killed in Bauchi mining site collapseWNDD: 5m risk river blindness, elephantiasis in KadunaOndo court remands man, 35, for raping 55-year-old colleague to deathOgun: Two police inspectors, corporal dismissed for robberyGuard kills self over ex-wife’s remarriage in KanoPolice raid Imo forest, arrest 5 Fulani abductorsTraditional ruler’s palace, commissioner’s residence burnt in Edo over burial disagreementTo read any of the stories above, click here: https://dailyshot.ng/some-nigerian-newspaper-headlines-31-01-2024/———————————————TODAY IN HISTORY*. On this day in 1961, Ham the Chimp travelled into outer space. The chimpanzee survived the US Mercury Program test flight with just a bruised nose.*. On this day in 1996, a suicide bombing in Sri Lanka killed 91 people. Separatist Tamil Tigers detonated a truck loaded with explosives in front of the central bank in Colombo.———————————————It’s the friends you can call up at 4am that matter. – Marlene Dietrich