* Niger: ECOWAS leaders meet Thursday after expiration of deadline
* FG withdraws contempt suit against labour, NLC may suspend strike
* Senate Defers Confirmation Of El-Rufai, Danladi, Okotete, Passes Other Ministerial Nominees
Ministerial Screening: Keyamo Scales Senate’s Hurdle After Apology
* ICPC probes corruption allegations against Malami
* I sold jobs for N1m, N1.5m at Character Commission, says ex-worker
* Resident doctors mobilise for nationwide protest
* Striking doctors: ‘No work, no pay’ policy vindictive –NMA
* Navy orders release of arrested vessel MT PRAISEL
* NAF bombs three boats stealing crude in Rivers
* FG-Siemens 11,000MW project for completion 2030
* Border closure threatens $226m Nigeria-Niger trade
* Nigeria-Niger mega rail project threatened, over 1,000 trucks trapped
* Air France Suspends Flights To Burkina Faso, Mali
* Billion naira debt: WAEC withholds results of candidates from 8 states
* SMEs non-performing loans hit N1.32tn, blame economic challenges
* ICT support for varsities increased to N100m – TETFund
* Pension investment in FG Securities up 20.6% to N10.9trn
* FG to remove taxes on tomatoes, raw food items soon, says chairman JTB
* Anthrax: FG donates 50,000 doses of vaccines to Lagos
* NIN registration declines 16.85% to 22.49m in 2022— NBS
* NEMA distributes relief items to Kogi windstorm victims
* 294 Army Majors’ begin qualifying exam in Jaji
* Nigeria can generate 427,000MW from solar – Gencos
* ASR Africa donates 25 vehicles to NDLEA, others
* NNPP suspends National Secretary Olayokun
* Adebutu: Bank presents evidence of 200,000 preloaded ATM cards to tribunal
* Workers’ five-day protest affected Oyo IGR, Makinde laments
* Alia flags off construction of N6bn roads’ projects
* No plot to impeach dep gov — Obaseki
* Sanwo-Olu, Adenaike, Nwachukwu extol Jakande’s virtues at NGE lecture
* Kano First Female Chief Justice Takes Oath Of Office
* Army arrests 3 suspected oil thieves, recovers truck with crude in Rivers
* Govts demolish illegal structures in Delta, Abuja
* Appointments: Delta uncovers plot by scammers to defraud desperate politicians
* Abia govt declares state of emergency in six sectors
* Borno employs 52 health workers for Gwoza hospital
* Enugu bans vehicles with tinted glasses
* Police rescue five kidnap victims in Katsina
* Efon indigenes to launch N1b fund
* Natives feared dead as illegal fuel dump explodes in Rivers
* Niger gov appoints Igbo man Special Adviser after PUNCH report, 25 others
* Jakande conceived Banana Island, allocated no plot to self – Son
TODAY IN HISTORY
- On this day in 1988, the 8888 pro-democracy uprising began as a student protest in Burma’s capital city, Yangon. Hundreds and thousands protesters came out on the streets to protest against the one-party rule by General Ne Win. The protests lasted for over a month and were violently put down by the government. They ended after the State Peace and Development Council, a group of senior military officers took over the government in a coup and installed a military junta. The uprisings get their name from the date the protests began – August 8, 1988
- ON this day in 1963, Armed robbers stole £2.6 million from the Glasgow-London Royal Mail Train near Bridego Bridge, north of London, in the Great Train Robbery.
The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you think you can only do a little. – Zig Ziglar
Compiled by Joe Agbro Jr (@joeagbro), joeagbro@gmail.com, +234-8056745268
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