SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 05/08/2024

Hunger protest: Tinubu’s speech attracts knocks, kudos

Hardship: States get N570bn grant

#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria: Protesters change tactics, move to occupy Abuja Monday

Protest continues in Lagos Monday – Organisers

Join Us On Monday Or Shut Down, Protesters Threaten Business Owners In Jos

Hunger protests: Marketers stop fuel supply, queues resurface

Families of trapped Niger miners threaten lawsuit over compensation

Oyo LG chairmen float new association

D’Tigress beat Canada 79-70 to reach first Olympics quarterfinals

American, Noah Lyles, wins men’s Olympics 100m gold

Protesters Loot Shops As UK Riot Worsens

Starmer warns UK far-right thugs over mob violence against asylum seekers

British High Commission, Otti celebrate Soyinka


DID YOU KNOW?

  • The Catacombs of Paris, France, is the final resting place for over six million people. It’s an underground network of tunnels beneath the city, and around 500,000 visitors head down here every year.
  • While it was used to make weapons, Uranium is now mostly used as fuel in nuclear power plants, ships and even submarines. When mishandeled, it is extremely deadly.

Stop bloodshed, destruction of property now, Tinubu begs protesters

Tinubu hails D’Tigress on historic Olympic feat

Tinubu felicitates with BUA chairman, Rabiu, on birthday

Soldiers nab wanted gun-runner, Hashimu Ahmad, in Kaduna

NDLEA seizes Loud shipments hidden in 4 vehicles from Canada

FG plans building materials manufacturing hubs

JAMB gives schools August ending to disclose illegal admissions

2,851 schools lack fences, other security measures – NSCDC

Roads: FERMA completes 286 projects, creates 22,800 jobs in one year 

INEC plans by-elections to replace Ifeanyi Ubah, others

Disquiet in Immigration over promotion of retired ACG

FG unveils elephant sculpture representing zero-tolerance against wildlife trafficking

Public debt stock may hit N130tn by Dec – Report

IBB disowns post endorsing military rule, says democracy has come to stay

#Endbadgovernance protest: IPC reads riot act over attacks on Journalists

Amnesty Int’l Asks Kano Gov To Investigate Shooting Of Protesters

CDHR demands return of fuel subsidy

BUA Foods grows profit to N130bn despite headwinds

Imasuagbon urges A’Court to disqualify Akpata from Edo poll

PDP unveils 399 candidates for A’Ibom LG poll

Don’t instigate violence against Tinubu, wait till 2027 elections – Kachikwu

Call off protest, poor Nigerians can’t endure more days – Atedo Peterside begs

Mbah, Otti, Umahi hail S’East for shunning hunger protests

Obaseki blames FG for hardship as protesters worship on street

Soludo to residents: move into agriculture to banish hunger instead of protest

Looting: Plateau Gov Imposes 24-Hour Curfew On Jos Metropolis

Hunger protest: Kano, Kebbi, Yobe relax curfew

Ekiti Assembly sets five-year jail for land grabbers

Miscreants looted Kano court, stole guns, others – Spokesman

Kwara seeks Army’s support on monthly sanitation

Enugu votes N183bn for 161 roads

Kebbi flood victims get FG relief materials

Ogun electric bike owners to pay N2,500 for charging – Govt

Lagos raising young farmers to replace ageing ones – Govt

Police arrest two suspects for looting bags of palliative rice in Edo

Protest: No arrest, looting in A’Ibom, says police command

Ladoja accepts beaded crown, says I will become Olubadan

Bandits Behead Hunter In Kaduna

Gunmen kill eight, injure three in Imo community


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1962, Nelson Mandela was arrested by the South African government at Rivonia, a suburb of Johannesburg. After a year-long trial, he was imprisoned only to be released in 1990 after spending 28 years as a political prisoner. Mandela was elected the country’s first black president in 1994.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. – Barack Obama

Good morning

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

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