Some Nigerian Newspaper Headlines+, 07/08/2023

* Fed Govt, states open talks on minimum wage review

* Niger closes air space citing ‘threat of intervention’

* ECOWAS, AU leaders meet over adamant Niger junta

* Tinubu meets states governors sharing border with Niger Republic

* Niger: Customs CG puts officers at Benin, Cameroon borders on red alert 

* Appeal Court restores Federal Govt’s power to register marriages

* Araraume, NNPC take legal battle to Court of Appeal

• India-Bound ‘Couple’ Excretes 184 Wraps Of Cocaine

* INEC prepares 11,355 BVAS for Kogi, Bayelsa, Imo polls

* Plateau, Benue, Niger IDPs hit 548,751, FG begins emergency intervention

* WAEC to release results of 1.6m candidates on Monday

* RSA holders can now acquire home with 25% of their pension –PenCom

* Fed Govt to establish tech hubs in seven states to empower 1m youths, 500,000 MSMEs

* Vandalism: Police Begin 24-Hour Surveillance On Second Niger Bridge

• Arsenal win Community Shield after penalties

* Private schools will suspend bus services, raise fees – NAPPS

* Herders attacks frustrating FG irrigation farming scheme – AFAN

* CONUA demands seven-month unpaid salaries

* Consumer goods manufacturers borrow N1.8trn to survive in HI’23

* Foreign airlines repatriate over $4bn in 15 months

• NRC Commissions 99 Staff Houses In Kano

* Why Apapa, Tincan account for 90% of trade route – Operators

* Cage fight with Zuckerberg will be live-streamed on X – Musk

* Influx of smuggled textiles killed 150 local companies – TEA

• ECOWAS can’t justify intervention in Niger without UN’s approval – Falana

* Olunloyo, Ex-CDS, 116 others get NSE fellowship

* 11,720 pastors for ordination at RCCG’s 71st annual convention

* MRA berates Enugu Governor over attacks on Journalists

* Chicago Court dismisses Atiku’s suit on Tinubu’s records

• Ministerial list: Blame South East leaders, not Tinubu – Okechukwu

* Impeachment plot: We will reconcile Obaseki, Shaibu, Edo PDP chair assures

* 79 Bauchi schools have one teacher each, says SUBEB

* Plateau gov orders cultivation of 900 hectares, promises security

* Obaseki: why I won’t back Shaibu to succeed me

* Soludo: Southeast winning battle against sit-at-home enforcers

* Diaso: Lagos government sacks facility manager, suspends LASIAMA GM

* AUMTCO Meets LAMATA Over FCT’s Transportation

* Female Soldier Guns Down Captain In Adamawa

• 21 illegal forex dealers, others arrested at Lagos airport

• Police Rescue 10 Kidnapped Victims, Arrest Suspects In Bauchi

• Police, local hunters arrest 16 kidnap, robbery suspects in Adamawa

• Ondo Police arrest suspected “Yahoo boy” with human parts

* Wanted Kano Criminal, Chile Maidoki, Surrenders To Police

• Woman Dies Inside Well In Kwara

* 4 Killed As Mining Pit Collapses In Bauchi

* NGE holds Lateef Jakande annual memorial lecture today

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TODAY IN HISTORY

• On this day in 1925, the West African Students’ Union, WASU, was founded by 21 Law students, led by Ladipo Solanke and Herbert Bankole-Bright
• On this day in 1960, Côte d’Ivoire gained its independence from France after it became a French Colony in 1893. Felix Houphouet-Boigny became its first president and remained in office until his death in 1993.
• On this day in 1974, 24 year old French daredevil, Phiippe Petit, walked a high wire 411 metres above the ground between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York. He walked eight times between the two towers in 45 minutes. He was arrested, but the charges were later dismissed.
• On this day in 1998, coordinated bomb attacks in American embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya killed over 200 people. An Al-Qaeda affiliate Egyptian Islamic Jihad, took responsibility for the twin attacks.

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