Daily Shot, 15/10/2026

FG seeks $78.5bn for 65 projects

Terrorists hit Borno military post, soldiers feared killed

FG approves new grid to curb collapses

Power: Metering hits 63%, 4.7m left out

$1tn economy: Tinubu, Sanwo-Olu back transport reforms

Swine fever: Ogun alerts FG as farmers lose N5bn

I won’t make Wilder’s mistake against Fury — Joshua

Popular gospel singer, Toluwanisings dies

Pope Leo XIV’s brother also battling cancer – report

Death penalty: Foreign missions applaud Nigeria’s abolitionist shift

War drains 2bn barrels of Middle East oil output — Kpler

ECOWAS court president vows rule of law, timely justice

EU backs FG’s broadband expansion with €14m grant

IMF warns Nigeria against subsidy return

Nigeria to showcase food innovations at Paris trade exhibition

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DID YOU KNOW?

The UEFA Cup (now known as the UEFA Europa League) began in the 1971–72 season as a replacement for the Inter-Cities Fairs Cup. And the most successful club is Sevilla, which holds the record with seven titles.

Rwanda is famously known as ‘Land of a Thousand Hills’ because of its rolling, mountainous green landscape.

Tinubu inaugurates APC Presidential Campaign Council for 2027 election

Tinubu hints at skipping some campaign rallies

You’re not Abraham Lincoln — Shettima berates Atiku for ‘disrespecting’ Tinubu

Senate seeks completion of abandoned projects before starting new ones

2027: Nigeria must not abandon Tinubu’s reforms midway, Abbas warns

Lagos banker, seven others arraigned for alleged N710m fraud

El-Rufai: ICPC opposes co-defendant’s bail application

2027: Police to build on past election successes, IGP says

Ondo crash: NAF recovers more aircraft components

Economic reforms must protect vulnerable Nigerians — Oyedele

Algorithms won’t decide 2027 elections, says INEC chair

$552m W’Bank grant targets 29m Nigerian children – UBEC

NUPRC links 2025 bid round fields to existing facilities

FG plans N5.4tn T-bill sales, favours one-year debt

CBN governor Cardoso appointed AFC board chairman

NIMASA to spotlight maritime security capacity at AFRIDEX

Varsities to hold 10% equity in firms as co-creators

ABUAD graduates 2,194, seeks NELFUND, TETFund benefits for private varsities

Psychiatrists urge lawmakers to decriminalise suicide attempts

Nigerian leaders viciously greedy, self-loving – Osofisan

MTN donates sports equipment to C’River schools

Dangote refinery moves from $1.73bn debt to net cash

Brewing industry has huge growth potential — NB CEO

eTranzact International gets new directors

Experts slam Tinubu’s N100.5bn airport reimbursement plan for Yobe

Tenaris invests $10m in Nigeria’s thermal insulation plant

2027: No party can match APC’s structure — Yilwatda

You must deliver your states, Wike tells APC Govs

Tinubu campaign: Accord leaders urge Adeleke to clarify loyalty

2027: Tinubu deserves second term, says Soludo

Oyebanji hails Ekiti’s economic growth, N8.8t Gdp

Sanwo-Olu appoints Ogunbanwo, five others as permanent secretaries

Abia directs retiring civil servants to proceed on three-month pre-retirement leave

C’River lists gains of 4,000-hectare oil palm plantation

LASG, AfDB target 610 women-led businesses for growth

Lagos plans decade-long overhaul of public procurement

Kwara restricts commercial motorcycle, tricycle operating hours

LASTMA warns against sale, consumption of spilled groundnut oil

MSF treats 87,000 malnourished Katsina children in eight months

Ogun to prosecute firm caught dumping industrial waste at interchange

Bauchi man chops off 24-year-old’s wrist, flees

Four nabbed over missing human heads, parts in Kwara

Three abducted CRIN staff regain freedom in Oyo

TODAY IN HISTORY

On this day in 1987, Thomas Sankara, the President of Burkina Faso, was killed during a coup led by Blaise Compaoré.

On this day in 1783, the world’s first manned balloon flight occured. Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier, a teacher from France, spent about 4 minutes in the air in a balloon made by flight pioneers Joseph-Michael and Jacques-Ètienne Montgolfier.

Don’t waste your energy trying to convince people to understand you. – Joel Osteen

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