SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 05/10/2024

Rivers, Benue, A/Ibom, Jigawa Hold LG Polls Today

FG exempts 63 items from VAT in major fiscal reform

Direct allocation to LGs begins October – NULGE

Over 70 Communities Submerged By Flood In Kogi, Govt Raises Alarm

Insecurity: Sokoto govt constructs military base in Illela

Police return N1m extorted from Corpers in Lagos

Naira appreciates to N1,665/$ in parallel market

20% of maternal, child mortality cases from Nigeria, says W’Bank

Olympic hero Dosu cheats death again in ghastly accident

Pogba’s drug ban reduced, set for March 2025 return

Trump promotes fake endorsement from JPMorgan CEO

Three Lebanese hospitals suspend services amid Israeli bombing

Hunger protests: Russia accuses US, UK of meddling in Nigeria’s internal affairs

FG set to evacuate Nigerians in Lebanon


DID YOU KNOW?

  • The British Empire was the largest empire in the world. In the 1920s, the British Empire ruled over 23% of the world’s population. Their territory covered 13 million square miles.
  • In Zimbabwe, hyperinflation reached 231 million percent in 2008, leading to the abandonment of the Zimbabwe dollar in favor of the US dollar.

Tinubu bows to pressure, confers GCON on Reps speaker

Tinubu felicitates Ajomale, Mimiko on 80th, 70th birthdays

Shettima orders overhaul of road safety measures to curb accidents

Senate gets 42 memoranda on Electoral Act amendment, state police

Speaker mourns victims of Niger boat accident

Rivers Elections: Police actions consistent with court order, remains neutral – Force HQ

FBI seeks EFCC’s assistance to arrest two Nigerians over $13m American healthcare fraud

FG to unveil 2.5m jobs initiative October – Labour minister

Crude-for-loans: NNPCL votes 8million barrels monthly for $8.8bn debt – Report

Ministers fate unknown as Tinubu tinkers with cabinet list

Nigerians to process, obtain passports from home – Tunji-Ojo

Ondo election: 18 parties nominated only 32.3 percent of required agents, says INEC

CBN sells $543.5m to stabilize FX market in September

NDDC launches tracking system for foreign scholarship students

Immigration officers seek Tinubu’s intervention on salary arrears

Zenith Bank Restores Services After Days Of Glitches, Apologises To Customers

Management debunks false report against GTCO

Flood wrecks havoc in UI hostel, destroys students belongings

NMA to investigate assault on Ogun student nurse

First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu pays condolence visit to Gov Eno over wife’s death

Obasanjo, Awujale to join Tinubu at historic Muslim leaders conference

Joint security task force kill IPOB/ESN member in shootout in Imo

PDP Crisis: S/East National Vice Chairman dismisses purported suspension

Rivers LG poll: Tension as Fubara, police flex muscles

Otu slashes prices of LGA nomination forms ahead of November 1st council polls

Abia gov kick starts construction of modern court halls in 17 LGAs

Shaibu remains impeached, Obaseki insists

Edo Deputy Gov Shaibu warns MDAs to prevent looting as Obaseki’s tenure nears end

Cholera outbreak: 287,708 people vaccinated in Borno – Commissioner

Remodeled Taraba Govt House renamed TY Danjuma House

Health care: Sokoto recruits 845 nurses, midwives

Kogi CP presents N47.6m cheques to 22 deceased officers’ families

Federal Govt College Ijanikin wins BSN competition

Three arrested for beheading septuagenarian, wife in Abia

25-year-old Chibunna arrested for stabbing father to death in Lagos

Soldiers killed my husband, donated his body to varsity’s lab for experiment – 20-yr-old widow

I apologise for saying no heaven without tithe – Adeboye


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1962, James Bond made his theatrical debut. The fictional British spy with the code name 007 was featured on the big screen for the first time in ‘Dr. No’. Based on the 1958 Ian Fleming novel of the same name, the movie starred Sean Connery as James Bond.

Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have. – Randy Pausch

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