SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 16/10/2024

High petrol price pushes inflation to 32.70% – Report

FG plans cash transfer for 20 million poor Nigerians

Disruption persists amid GTB’s transition to new application

Eagles-Libya clash postponed, CAF confirms

Order to divert Super Eagles’ flight came from Libya’s highest authorities – Pilot

Yayale Ahmed heads FG/ASUU negotiation team

ASUP decries NBTE interference, insists on strike

Nigeria’s foreign reserves rose to $39bn in October — Cardoso

Naira appreciates to N1,680/$ in parallel market

Naira among worst performing currencies – World Bank

Lebanon’s Hezbollah vows to continue fighting Israel

Oxfam warns of worsening inequality as 99% wealthy Nigerians evade tax

UK did not endorse Yoruba Nation petition – FG


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Three Gorges Dam in China is the world’s largest dam and the largest hydroelectric station in the world. In 1994, the Three Gorges Dam construction began and was completed in 2009. Aside from producing electricity, the greatest function of the dam which cost US $ 37 billion, is flood control.
  • Before 2011, any drink in Russia with less than 10% alcohol content was legally classified as a soft drink.

Tinubu reaffirms commitment to women’s empowerment

Shettima charges NSIA board to diversify portfolio

N’Assembly condemns Eagles maltreatment in Libya, demands apology

Bill to establish Nigerian Coast Guard scales second reading in Senate

Complete Dasin Hausa Dam to absolve excess water from Lagdo dam, Reps tell FG

2025 Budget: Reps seek better funding for polytechnics

Drama as Senator accuses colleagues of consuming, dealing in drugs

Three dismissed cops to be arraigned over Kwara poly student’s killing

Remove defamatory posts on Falana, Falz, court orders VeryDarkMan

Court restrains EFCC from arresting former defence Minister Batagarawa

Chidinma: Lagos court to hear no-case submission Dec 5

Alleged ₦700m Ponzi Scheme: Enugu radio host Favour Ekoh arrested by EFCC

Govt unveils new regulations for petrol import licence

1.3 million meters to be delivered in December – Minister

TCN begins probe as minister debunks grid collapse claims

FG, Katsina support flood victims with cash, building materials

NFIU to criminalise data hoarding by MDAs

FG orders foreign airlines to patronise Nigerian caterers

NUPRC disburses N200b to host communities projects

Trade crucial for global food stability – Okonjo-Iweala

Leadership crisis rocks ASMATA, top officials clash over IGR

FG promoting ease of doing business – Air Peace boss, Allen Onyema

MTN foundation unveils seven laboratories in Gombe school

Sacked Mobil workers protest 12 years unpaid severance benefits

Hyundai begins local assembling of CNG vehicles

Champion Breweries plans public offer

NBC trains 1,000 youths in Ogun

LP kicks as Soludo rejects absolute LG autonomy

Rivers Assembly crisis: Amaewhule faction declares pro-Fubara lawmakers seats vacant

Oko-Jumbo to Amaewhule, 24 others: you have no power to declare our seats vacant

New dawn as Sanwo-Olu flags off red line passenger operations in Lagos

Abiodun: uncontrolled mining causing ecological disasters in Ogun

Gov Yusuf Jets Out Of Kano As NNPP Crisis Deepens

Zamfara LG election to hold soon, says Gov Lawal

Soludo signs controversial LG law amid opposition

I’ll dualise Akungba road, construct overhead bridge —Aiyedatiwa

Security: Police launch school protection squad in Ekiti

73% of Abia residents drink water contaminated with faeces — Study

Kwara BDC operator jailed 200-hour community service for fraud

Sokoto begins rice sale at discounted price

Kano promotes 20,542 teaching staff, to repair vandalised digital park

Police to prosecute three officers dismissed over Kwara Poly student’s death


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1923, the Walt Disney Company was founded. The company was created by brothers Walt and Roy as the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio.

Everybody deserves a fresh start every once in a while. – Bugsy Siegel

Good morning

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

*Yesterday, we published that Fela Kuti was born on October 15, 1930. That is wrong and regretted. The great man was born on October 15, 1938*

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