*NEWS HEADLINES* -06 FEB 25 https://whatsappnewsheadlines.blogspot.com/2025/02/news-headlines-06-feb-25.html *NATIONAL* Tinubu writes Senate, seeks increase of 2025 budget from N49.7trn to N54.2trn. Nigeria’s security remains a priority, says Tinubu. Tinubu seeks Senate’s approval to sack 3 RECs. Tinubu appoints Awuzie as Rector of Federal Poly, Oko. FEC approves $45.3m rail project linking four western ports. FG secures UN agency study facility for critical minerals. Be patient with Tinubu, Wike urges Nigerians. FG tasks lab scientists on quackery as council issues ISO certification. PDP crisis: BoT orders NWC to swear in Ude-Okoye as National Secretary, Anyanwu kicks. NNPP Kicks As Aneibonam-Led Faction Elects New NWC Members. FG, WFP invest N1.2b, $2.5b to tackle hunger, nutrition. Oshiomhole insists retired generals connive with foreigners to steal solid minerals. I’m friend to Amaechi, not on Wike’s side – Peterside. You are not welcomed to APC, Nwoko tells Oborevwori. Senate: Fireworks as Akpabio reads Nwoko’s defection letter to APC. Lawmakers probe telcos over unauthorised NIN-SIM linkage. Nigeria Partners Germany To Implement Vocational Training For Youth. HURIWA faults $30m agric allocation for states, urges agro-industrial revival. PSC’s directive on police retirement transformative, fair, says CELL. UNODC assures NDLEA of more support in drug fight. *BUSINESS* Shettima: How Debt Can Be Transformed Into Economic Asset. Experts warn of dangers as Tinubu jerks up 2025 Budget to N54.2trn. Forex Trading: CBN to suspend license of erring BDCs, banks. CBN Restricts BDCs To $25,000 Fx Weekly, One Dealer Bank. Import suit: Court fixes NNPCL, Dangote ruling for March 18. 2025: FG unveils industrialisation strategies, to conduct MSMEs census. Blockchain will aid capital market regulation — SEC DG. ARG starts revamp of Bonny export terminal facilities. Capitalisation crosses N65 trillion as investors gain N322 billion. Naira sustains gains, appreciates to N1,595/$. Dangote refinery exports two cargoes of jet fuel to Saudi Arabia. Oil producers divert 500,000bpd meant for local refineries – PETROAN. *ACROSS THE STATES* Lagos Assembly Crisis: Meranda survives as Tinubu fails to meet GAC team. Osun Assembly trains staff on legislative service delivery. Ighodalo vs Okpebholo: INEC tenders Edo Gov poll result before tribunal. Police recover stolen phones from tricycle thieves in Delta. Akwa Ibom budgets ₦1b for lawmakers’ vehicles, healthcare gets ₦250m. Ebonyi killings: Police arrest one, raid hideout of suspected assailants. Benue: Local hunters, armed herdsmen clash claims 3 lives in Otukpo. El-Rufai’s former officials slam corruption claims as political witch-hunt. Strike: Kaduna Residents Lament Hardship Over Power Outage. NDLEA arrests 75-yr-old drug trafficker in Kano. N2.5bn Kano mass wedding sparks debate on cultural preservation, misplaced priority. 17 Almajiri students killed, 16 others injured in Zamfara Islamic school fire. *HUMAN ANGLE* Alarm as cartels target teenage girls for organ harvesting. Reckless truck driver maims LASTMA officer in Lagos. ‘My wife beats me for disciplining our children’, man laments in church. 13-yr-old pupil arrested for threatening schoolmates with father’s gun. 29-year-old woman missing after job interview in Lagos. Woman stoned to death in Ogun. Angry mom drowns six-year-old daughter in Bayelsa. Stray bullet from cult clash kills trader in Bayelsa. ‘Died so young’ – Nigerians mourn actress Pat Ugwu. How actress, Pat Ugwu, died at 35 three years after losing father. ‘She won my heart’, Nollywood actor Chiwetalu Agu praises Yemi Alade’s Grammy outfit. Chimamanda, Edebiri, Tyla, others join Met Gala 2025 committee. My wife most googled person on earth – Kanye West. *INTERNATIONAL* Niger orders Red Cross to leave country. A rush to bury Goma’s dead after Congo rebels declare truce. Saudi Arabia restates support for Palestinian state. Second US judge blocks Trump’s birthright citizenship order. Following Trump, Argentina quits World Health Organization. *SPORTS* Aba Sports Club 1926 holds inaugural Captain/Lady Captain’s Golf tournament. Eba and Egusi soup, secrets behind my Hoffenheim form — Gift Orban. Former Super Eagles defender Taye Taiwo inducted into Marsielle’s Hall of Fame. Man Utd defender Malacia signs for PSV on loan. Boxer who knocked out Lennox Lewis wins again at 59 years n _If you enjoy reading our posts every morning, share, comment, subscribe and follow our twitter account @OurWhatsAppNews and WhatsApp channel_ *GOOD MORNING*