SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 11/08/2024

One million-man march flops, hunger protest quietly ends

Organisers will sue FG for killed protesters – Sowore

27 states, FCT yet to set up minimum wage panels

Outrage As Bandit Offers To Render Financial Assistance To Followers On TikTok

NELFUND: Varsity students celebrate, stock foodstuffs with N20,000 loan

137 illegal refineries destroyed in one year – Investigation

Man City beat Man Utd on penalties to win Community Shield

Travis Scott arrested in Paris after fight

Turkey unblocks Instagram after nine days

Celine Dion jabs Trump for playing ‘Titanic’ song at rally

New Polls Give Harris Lead Over Trump In Three Key States

Poland counters DSS, says detained nationals ‘merely taking protest photos’


DID YOU KNOW?

  • New Zealand is the first country in the world to grant women’s suffrage. Women have been allowed to vote in parliamentary elections in New Zealand since 1893. However women could not stand for election to parliament until 1919, when three women stood (unsuccessfully).
  • Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words

Tinubu hails former NBA President Alegeh at 60

N’Assembly, four others get N109bn allocation in one month — Report

Troops swoop on oil thieves in Niger Delta, clamp down on 13 illegal refineries

Troops recover 118 cows in Taraba

NSCDC deploys 10,000 guards to protect northern farmers against attacks

700,000 manufacturers, MSMEs apply for FG N150bn loan

Fed Govt terminates Kano-Maiduguri road contract by Dantata & Sawoe

Umahi Queries Contractor As Flood Destroys Newly Rehabilitated Kano-Maiduguri Highway

Hunger: Confusion over 740 truckloads of rice palliative for 36 states, Abuja

Unpaid arrears: Military school teachers threaten to boycott classes

Protest: NHRC vows to probe rights violations

73 babies delivered at convention – Adeboye

Obasanjo: Many Nigerian Leaders Should Be In Jail

Oil theft hindering Nigeria from meeting OPEC quota– Elumelu

Dogara slams Bauchi gov over anti-Tinubu comment

EndSARS was about Yahoo people, North protesting against hunger — Yerima Shettima

Shunning Protests: It’s not Igbo’s business whether Tinubu govt does well or not – Uwazurike

Atiku Warns Against Attempts To Impede Progress Of Dangote Refinery

APC expresses concern over alleged diversion, rebranding of FG palliatives in Kano

Mutfwang dialogues with Plateau protesters on Day 10

Kano suffered worst form of corruption under Ganduje, says Yusuf

Abia considers ‘discriminatory package’ for teachers, jerks up retirement age

Vacate NAOC facility, Bayelsa govt tells protesting women

Ogun officials’ invitation by EFCC not linked to Adedayo’s petition – Government

Osun vows to clamp down on tax defaulters

Edo, BEDC to meter 500,000 houses

Over 1.2m children take malaria treatment in Kogi

Curfew further relaxed in Plateau from 10am to 6pm

#EndBadGovernanceInNigeria: Katsina relaxes curfew

Muslims pray after weeks without rain in Yola

Bayelsa capsized boat: 18 bodies recovered, say police

Police begin probe into death of hotel worker in Edo

17-year-old electrocuted at construction site in Lagos

Humanitarian Worker Gunned Down In Benue 

Cultists kill POS operator in Ogun

Anxiety as Kogi varsity students’ abductors demand N50m ransom


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1948, the London Olympics, the first to be broadcast on television, opened. After the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the next two games were cancelled due to the Second World War. The London Olympics was popularly known at the time as the ‘Austerity Games’ because of the post-war economy

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. – Ronald Reagan

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