Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines For Today, Saturday, 14th March, 2026

Good morning Nigeria. Welcome to the NaijaChoice News roundup of top newspaper headlines in Nigeria for today, Saturday, 14th March, 2026.

PUNCH: Power crisis: Blackout wreaks havoc

Many households and businesses across the country have been reeling from the effect of worsening electricity supply as a relentless heatwave intensifies hardship.

Findings by Saturday PUNCH show that residents of Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Enugu, Benue, Oyo, Akwa-Ibom, Taraba, Lagos and Ogun states have been grappling with prolonged blackouts in weeks, forcing many people to abandon reliance on public electricity and turn to generators and solar power.

Residents, who spoke to our correspondents, said the situation made it nearly impossible for them to carry out normal activities during the day.

Energy analysts warn that the worsening outages highlight deeper structural failures within the electricity sector, including gas supply shortages to power plants, weak transmission infrastructure and chronic underinvestment across the power value chain.

Daiily Trust: Tinubu Establishes Presidential Petroleum Reform Task Force

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the establishment of a Presidential Petroleum Reform and Value Optimisation Task force to design the next phase of structural reforms in Nigeria’s petroleum sector.

This was disclosed by Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, in a statement on Friday.

Onanuga also announced that Mr Fola Adeola, co-founder of Guaranty Trust Bank and founder and chairman of the Fate Foundation, is the Task Force’s chairman and expected to coordinate the group’s work to ensure timely delivery of its mandate.

He named other members of the Task force as, Ademola Adeyemi-Bero, Osagie Okunbor, Abubakar Suleiman, Adaeze Aguele, Farouk Gumel, Phillipa Osakwe-Okoye and Seyi Bella while Mofoluwasho Fadayomi will serve as secretary.

That’s the top Nigerian newspaper headlines for today. Read more Nigerian news on Naija News. See you again tomorrow.