SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 13/07/2024

Tears as 22 pupils killed, 120 trapped in Plateau school building collapse

Plateau Gov’t Begs For Blood Donation, Says Schoolchildren’s Conditions Overwhelming 

School building collapse: Tinubu sympathises with Plateau residents

Tinubu renames National Theatre after Soyinka

LG Autonomy: Supreme Court Has Relieved Us Of A Burden – Govs

Monitor govs, track LG funds, ALGON, NULGE tell NFIU

LG autonomy: Anxiety mounts over future of LCDAs

Nigeria has not met OPEC supply quota since 2022 – Report

FG Admits There’s Food Security Crisis, Sets Up Committee To Tackle Hunger

IPOB seeks dismantling of checkpoints on S’East roads

86 varsities, others conducted illegal admissions, says JAMB

Rema to perform at Indian billionaire Ambani’s son’s wedding

I promise you I am OK, Biden tells supporters

Sudanese police order all foreigners to leave Khartoum


DID YOU KNOW?

  • The longest book in the world is ‘A la recherche du temps perdu’ written by Marcel Proust. It contains an estimated 9,609,000 characters and the title translates to ‘Remembrance of Things Past’.
  • Hummingbirds are the only animals that can fly backward.

Tinubu pledges to complete East West Road project linking 3 states

Tinubu Appoints Dantsoho, Adeyeye, MD, Board Chairman NPA

Soyinka, Nigeria shining light – Tinubu

Ogoni leaders stopped me from completing East-West Road, says Akpabio

Nigeria to be paid P&ID cost in Pounds- Fagbemi

Binance Nigeria representative docked on amended charge

Ex-minister granted N10bn bail over alleged N33bn fraud

Corruption: ICPC urges N’Assembly to okay whistleblower protection bill

Student loans to be disbursed according to academic calendars

CBN sells $122.67m to 46 authorised dealers

FG awards metering of 187 flow stations contracts for $21m

FIRS enrols 170,0 00 tax payers in less than one year

Livestock ministry: North, South, Middle Belt clash

UNDP unveils $1m seed investment to fund initiative

Nigerian firm partner with S/African investor to establish modular lithium plants

Singer Davido launches social media app

Ndidi extends Leicester stay till 2027

Bunmi Apata tops ladder in squash at Lagos Country Club

Return of suicide bombers: We’re back to our worst nightmare —Northern leaders lament

LG Elections: It’s undemocratic for govs to enthrone their men as chairmen — Osoba

NNPP presents new logo, slogan, adopts Kwankwaso’s red as party colour

APC women leader hails Tinubu over 19 percent of women in his cabinet

Doguwa dumps APC, decries exclusion from party’s affairs

Plateau gov mourns students killed in school building collapse 

East-West road has collapsed, Bayelsa gov tells Tinubu

UN decorates Mbah as SDG champion, says Enugu a laudable model for Africa

Sanwo-Olu hails Soyinka at 90

Oba Olakulehin’s ascension proof of Ibadan’s resilience – Makinde

Food security: Yahaya meets Tinubu over Gombe’s agriculture plans

Oyebanji approves payment of N1bn gratuity to retirees

Gbagi buried as Oborevwori, others pay tribute

Benue bans protest in attacked council area

10,000 Abians to benefit from Otti’s N1b interest-free loan

Imo grants licence to Orashi Electricity Company for uninterrupted power generation

We’re not responsible for body found hanging on tree – LASTMA

Tinubu’s ADC Yusuf, crowned king of Ilemona in Kwara

24 killed in Ogun cult violence in six months – Investigation

Police arrest 200 suspects, recover 27 vehicles in Anambra

Lagos policeman defiles teenager, mother alleges cover-up


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1934, Akinwande Oluwole Soyinka, writer, poet and playwright was born in Abeokuta, present day Ogun State, Nigeria. Wole Syinka became the first African awarded the Nobel prize for Literature in 1986.  
  • On this day in 1977, the Ethiopian-Somali War began. The Somali National Army invaded the disputed Ogaden region between Somalia and Ethiopia. The war lasted for nine months and ended with a Somalian retreat

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