SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 02/09/2024

Hunger protest: FG arraigns activists, British ally today

Petrol scarcity set to worsen as NNPCL admits $6bn debt

Dangote petrol ready for rollout

Bandits Didn’t Seize Military Vehicles – Zamfara Residents

Bauchi, Zamfara, Sokoto Jigawa most affected by flood – NEMA

Lagos seeks investors for Green, Purple Line rails

NBA star Antetokounmpo gets married in Greece

Rema donates N105m to home church for supporting family after dad’s death

BBNaija Twist: ‘No Loose Guard’ pairs dissolved, housemates compete solo

Conte insists Osimhen not part of Napoli’s plans

Israel PM vows to ‘hunt down’ Hamas after hostage deaths

Russia repels massive Ukrainian drone attack

ECOWAS To Dump Single Currency Initiative, ECO

Editors decry attack on press freedom in Niger, Mali, B’Faso

Nigeria, China begin bilateral economic talks in Beijing

27% of Nigerian men not biological fathers – DNA report


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Rwanda implements a car-free day every month. On these days the streets fill up with people running, biking, roller skating or engaged in any other outdoor sports.
  • The human liver has 500 functions which includes producing bile that helps in the process of digestion. It is also the only vital organ inside the human body that is capable of regenerating.

Tinubu Arrives Beijing for a five-day official visit to China

Akpabio hails Shettima as a committed democrat, trusted vice president @ 58th

N21m jumbo pay: SERAP sues Akpabio, Abbas for ‘fixing NASS running costs’

NAF’s Special Forces kill terrorist kingpin, five others in Kaduna

Military destroys 115 illegal refineries, arrests 22 in Rivers, Bayelsa

NDLEA intercepts 31 million pills, bottles of opioids worth N17.9bn in Lagos, PH

Flood spreads to 29 states

Bidders for Warri, Kaduna refineries must be debt-free – NNPC

Forex crisis: Nigeria’s foreign trade payments crash by 57%

FG To Invest $800m In Power Sector – Minister

Power generation down by 1,400MW as Discos reject allocations

Joint CBN, SEC, NDIC team to verify banks’ new capital base

PSC promotes 31 ACPs to DCPs

FG Probes Poor Feeding Of Inmates In Calabar Prisons

JAMB uncovers 21 admission seekers with fake results

Prospective Corps Members Stranded At Kano Orientation Camp

GEF approves $3.28m to combat land degradation in Kebbi

BUA blames high cement prices on middlemen

WAEC, NECO age requirement policy will drag education sector backwards – SSANU

Falana Threatens To Sue Foreign Contractors Over Refineries’ Repair

NNPC Has Been A Cesspool Of Endemic Corruption For Years – Atiku

NNPP gasps for breathe as two camps battle for supremacy

No individual can destroy PDP, party tells Wike

Kogi PDP elects new state exco

Bauchi PDP elects new executives

LG polls: APC wins 21 chairmanships, 225 ward councillors seats in Kebbi

Osun woos foreign investors for tourism, mining sectors

Ondo deploys guards to protect farmers

Kwara arraigns 400 for flouting monthly sanitation order

50 sexual offenders convicted, 6,000 victims supported – LASG

Passengers lament as Lagos drivers, louts raise fares

Ogun Seals Off Chinese Companies Over ‘Improper Waste Disposal’

Kano Gov’t Didn’t Sell Parts Of Eid Ground – Traders

Siblings nabbed for gang-raping teenage girl in Rivers

Landlady escapes death, hospitalised as man gouges out wife’s eyes in Abia

Gunmen kidnap three, kill husband in Ekiti

‘Fake love,’ Portable calls out celebrities for not donating to TG Omori


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1666, a fire ravishes the city of London. Also known as the Great Fire of London, the fire broke out in a bakery and raged for 4 days destroying the houses of most inhabitants of the city.
  • On this day in 2004, Joshua Dariye, then governor of Plateau State, was arrested in his Marriot Hotel room in London by the Metropolitan Police. Various amounts of money in different currencies totalling over £90,000 were recovered from him.

Too many people overvalue what they are not and undervalue what they are. – Malcolm Forbes

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Compiled by Joe Agbro Jr., (@Joeagbro), Joeagbro@dailyshot.ng, +234-8056745268

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