SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 09/12/2024

Lakurawa: Nigeria, neighbours begin offensive against new terror group

Farotimi: Protest organisers dare police, insist on Ekiti rally

Marketers begin direct loading from Dangote refinery

Marketers may access petrol from PH refinery this week – IPMAN 

No consultants for tax collection under new tax bills, Oyedele clarifies

New coronavirus strain: NCDC alerts states, public

11,852 Nigerians repatriated in 23 months – IOM

Lagos health workers begin three-day warning strike Wednesday

NIN Modification: Nigerians narrate bitter experiences, as banks, NIMC trade blames

Trump plans mass deportations, end birthright citizenship

Syria’s ousted president, Assad, family arrive in Russia, granted asylum

India arrests three Nigerians for cyberfraud


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Before its independence on March 6, 1957 Ghana was called Gold Coast. The Portuguese who arrived in the 1470s found so much gold there, prompting the British to call it Gold Coast. Ghana which means ‘warrior king’ in the Soninke language was chosen by Dr. Kwame Nkrumah to evoke a sense of unity.
  • Adults blink about 10–15 times per minute while babies blink about once or twice a minute.

Tinubu, others congratulate Mahama as opposition clinches Ghana Presidency

Speaker congratulates Senate President, Akpabio on 62nd birthday

SEDC board appointments: Kalu commends Tinubu

FG 2021 audit report reveals N39.949 trillion negative asset balance

Troops destroy 17 illegal refineries, seize 170,000 litre stolen products in Niger Delta

Military recovers human skull, firearms in IPOB camps raids

Tax reform bills not meant to impoverish north – Akume

SGF asks northerners to wait for 2031 presidency

Foreign investments in telecoms crash by $99m – NBS

Pension assets grew by N4.26tn in one year – PenCom

FG yet to appoint ambassadors, disregard fake list – Ministry

INEC chair commends Ghana poll, highlights lessons for Nigeria

Ondo election: INEC blames banking errors as ad-hoc staff demand payments

Tinubu committed to culture, tourism promotion – Minister

Tunji-Ojo pledges compliance to employees compensation scheme 

Yuletide: NAFDAC warns against fake drinks

NSIB Begins Probe As Abuja-Accra Bound Flight Loses Engines Midair

FCCPC warns Air Peace against obstructing ongoing inquiry

FG tasks NIPR on fight against fake news, disinformation

Taxation: FCT-IRS gives 2-week deadline to 10,000 high earners

NBSA calls for more blood donation as Nigeria faces shortage

JAMB Registrar Oloyede decries misconceptions about Jihad in Islam

Tax reform bill will kill tertiary education, ASUU warns FG

Electricity bill: Intervene in private universities’ ordeal, Babcock VC tells FG

Lagos-Calabar highway: Compensation process lacks transparency, says Surveyors

Julius Berger gets new MD

Edo: APC, PDP begin legal battle at tribunal today

Damagun to preside over Cross River PDP crisis-resolution meeting

Tension in Osun PDP as Reps member Oke criticises Adeleke’s leadership style

Ekiti gov honours late CJ with N300m transformer project

Energy: Makinde targets 500MW solar power generation project 

Sanwo-Olu presents staff of office to new Orijeru of Igbooye kingdom

Enugu gov promises investors business-friendly environment

Cross River magistrates begin indefinite strike Monday

Enugu crashes external debt by $39.8m

Borno, Yobe, Adamawa warn private schools against arbitrary fee hike

Developer jailed 10 years for defrauding 133 victims – LASRERA

Kwara plans mass burial for unclaimed corpses

One killed, suspects arrested as Gombe youths, herdsmen clash

Trigger-happy cop detained for killing Delta teenager over fireworks

18-year-old arrested for allegedly killing Niger ex-perm sec

Lagos Fire Service rescues 63-year-old plumber trapped in 120-meter-deep well


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1979, World Health Organization (WHO) officially certified the eradication of smallpox. Only two infectious diseases have been completely eradicated in history; the other is Rinderpest, which is an infectious disease of cattle that was eradicated in 2011.

Do more than believe: practice. – William Arthur Ward

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

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