SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 09/07/2024

Inflation: FG suspends tariff, taxes to allow import of food items for 150 days

Naira weakens to 1,523/$ at official market

Brace for more flooding, NiMET tells Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Edo, FCT, others

Queues spread as petrol hits N1,100/litre in Abuja, others

Fuel stations to operate longer hours to aid PMS supply – NNPC

FG plans reforms as telecoms sector attracts $191m FDI

Zamfara Rep pays N10.5m bride price for 105 newlyweds

Rivers lawmakers hold parallel sittings

Ondo council poll postponed indefinitely

Minimum wage: Labour urges NASS to end slave wage

Student loan: NANS issues 48-hour ultimatum to institutions to upload students’ data

72 hrs after abduction: Fate of Kaduna journalists remains unknown

Kidnapped A’Ibom NYSC members: Family of remaining one in captivity seeks help

Outrage as Russian missiles kill 33 in Ukraine children hospital

Tinubu pays tribute to long-time associate Ayilara

NASS considers death penalty for vandals of national assets

AGF seeks to take over trial of MTN Nigeria CEO, others

Court bars Rivers CJ, Clerk from accepting Amaewhule’s impeachment notice

Yahaya Bello loses bid to hear N80bn fraud case in Kogi

N423bn theft: Court hears El-Rufai’s suit against Kaduna Assembly July 17

Court rejects IBD Dende’s request to stop FIJ publications

EFCC opposes Emefiele’s request for overseas medical trip

Nigeria Air N2.6b investigation: EFCC quizzes Ethiopian Airlines CEO

N1.2bn fraud: EFCC rejects ruling freeing Fayose’s ally

Commissioners, ICPC to brainstorm on way out of sexual harassment in schools

Military busts Delta illegal refineries, recovers 48,000-litre crude

FG orders 37 contractors to deliver 260 emergency road projects in three months

FG Suspends Taxes On Yam, Rice, Other Food Products

Apapa Customs collected N1tn in six months – Comptroller

Buy locally-assembled CNG vehicles, FG advises Nigerians

Nigeria suffering from acute teacher shortage, others, UBEC cries

NESREA shuts 46 facilities in 10 states for environmental violation

UNN probes death of first-year student found in campus drainage

FCET Akoka: FME directs council to investigate N240m approved for college fencing

Emeka Offor supports UNN, UNIZIK with N150m endowment funds

GTCO plans N400bn capital raise

Local airlines project N980/litre aviation fuel, meet Dangote

Edo public school wins Seplat’s quiz, N10m


DID YOU KNOW?

  • In Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea and Congo, cassava leaves are cooked into soups and eaten as a delicacy. The soup also goes by names like saka saka and pondu.
  • Human teeth are the only part of the body that cannot heal themselves. Teeth are coated in enamel which is not a living tissue.

Over 100,000-hectare northern farmlands lying fallow – Arewa Forum

We’ve done well, Nigerians will soon jubilate – APC Govs

Kano NNPP dismisses Yusuf’s suspension, Kwankwaso’s expulsion as laughable

Northern traditional institution under spotlight as govs push long-range reforms

Bago, AbdulRasaq hail Tinubu on Sokoto-Badagry 1,000km super highway

Kwara gov distributes farm inputs to additional 10,000 farmers

Mbah okays N1.9b for payment of teachers’ four-year leave arrears

Abiodun gives contractor two-week deadline to complete road

Pro-Wike Lawmakers Give Fubara 7 Days To Re-Present Budget

Lagos Assembly plans law to curb street begging

Benue court adjourns suit challenging Alia’s executive order

Lagos negotiates with TETFUND over unaccessed N4.9bn funds

Enugu promotes environment with essay competition

Bauchi plans to vaccinate 2.2 million children

Kaduna nurses embark on strike to protest poor wage, living condition

Kano orders crackdown on same-sex marriage promoters

Flood: Lagos issues 48-hr eviction notice to Gbagada-Bariga channel squatters

Anxiety as hyena escapes from Jos wildlife park

2 Die, 2 Missing In Jigawa Boat Accident

Unidentified gunmen kill three vigilante operatives in Imo

Terrorists dressed as women kidnap 26 in Katsina

Septuagenarian bags life jail for defiling neighbour’s daughter


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 2011, South Sudan became the youngest country in the world. The North East African country peacefully seceded from Sudan after an independence referendum was passed. Since independence, however, the country has been wrecked with widespread ethnic violence and human rights violations.

The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping from the old ones. – John Maynard Keynes

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

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