SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 10/08/2024

FG floods major cities with policemen ahead of one million-man march

Protests: Army vows to preserve Nigeria’s democracy

‘We Were Targeting A Criminal’, Police Speak On Labour House Invasion

Lassa Fever: NCDC registers seven new cases

FG repaying 69 loans obtained by ex-presidents, W’Bank declares

Lagos draws global spotlight with e-sports roundtable at Paris Olympics 2024

‘No survivors’ in Brazil plane crash with 62 aboard – official

Tobi Amusan misses Women’s Olympics 100m hurdles final spot

Team Nigeria’s men disqualified from Olympics 4x400m relay

Spain beat France 5-3 to win Olympics men’s football gold

Algerian gender-row boxer Khelif storms to Olympic gold

Germany’s Ogunleye wins Olympic gold in women’s shot put

S’African pageantry: Adetshina gets support after alleged parental fraud

Protests: Poland begs for release of detained citizens in Nigeria

We feel unsafe during riots – Nigerians in UK

Nigerians criticise govt’s UK travel warning amid local unrest


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Equatorial Guinea is the only African country that has Spanish as its official language. Spain invaded the country in 1778 and Equatorial Guinea only gained her independence on October 12, 1968. Approximately 67.7% of the population in Equatorial Guinea speak Spanish.
  • A karat is a measurement indicating the proportion of gold in an alloy out of 24 parts. Thus, while pure gold is 24-karat, a jewellery that contains 16 parts gold and 8 parts alloying metal is 16-karat.

We’ll bring back Niger, Mali, B’Faso to ECOWAS – Tinubu

Economy My Priority Now, Tinubu Tells Anyaoku, Others Seeking New Constitution

Tinubu appoints Ango Acting Chairman FCT-IRS

Abbas Appoints New Reps For Oil Sector Probe

Ihonvbare-led Reps committee to team up with Senate in oil sector investigation

SEDC will tackle ecological problems in Igboland – Deputy Speaker, Kalu

Reports claiming I died in Switzerland malicious, arrests ‘ll be made – Senator Nwoko

Reps member Nazifi: Looters who attacked my house took everything, including toiletries

Court declines jurisdiction in El-Rufai’s suit

Police invade CDHR office in Lagos

Naval officer dies rescuing 59 from drowning in Rivers

Alleged N90b hajj subsidy fraud: ICPC raids NAHCON office, arrests director

400 terrorists, others at large two years after Kuje jailbreak

FG inaugurates $500m power transmission project for Lagos-Ogun industrial corridor

FG to prosecute developers of collapsed buildings

FG commissions Pategi Erosion, Flood Control project

Umahi urges contractors to complete Enugu-Onitsha road

Idle Ajaokuta workers got N38.9bn salaries in 10 years – Investigation

#EndBadGovernance Protesters Fighting Legitimate Cause –Obasanjo

Ex-Rep member Wole Diya dies few days to 64th birthday

Jigawa varsity develops software for diabetes, breast cancer detection

Police quiz Tonto Dikeh over cyberbullying allegations

Ini Edo loses “Shanty Town” legal fight  

NLC cautions Police over siege on CDHR office

CSOs demand probe on trapped N4.9bn meal subsidy

Ohanaeze disowns acting president

Internal crisis: PDP appoints Oyinlola to head 25-member reconciliation committee

Edo: State police tops agenda as Ighodalo, Akpata present manifestoes

Complete ongoing projects, Oborevwori tells NDDC

Fubara pays N300m grant for 389 doctors on residency training

Eno issues 90-day ultimatum to Akwa Ibom traders over interest-free loan

Gov fumes as 50 villagers killed in Benue mass murder

Anambra begins demolition of illegal structures

Five dead, 15 missing in Jigawa boat accident

Kaduna gunmen abduct eight family members, journalist’s wife, daughters

Strange: Woman born with male, female sex organs fathers two children


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1675, the foundation stone for the Royal Observatory, Greenwich was laid. The observatory,which started operating in 1676, is famous around the world because its location marks the Prime Meridian passes through it.

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. – Aesop

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

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