SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 17/08/2023

Naira rebounds, trades 850/dollar at parallel market

Tinubu, Bago, David Mark, others eulogise IBB at 82

Niger: ECOWAS condemns soldiers’ killings by jihadists

ECOWAS military chiefs to meet in Ghana amid Niger unrest

Reps quizz DTCA, NISHA, FRC over job scam

Reps committee raises alarm, confirms allegations of extortion against IPPIS

AGM: Contempt suit against FBN officials fixed for August 23

Accountant, mother arraigned for N1bn, $975,102 fraud

Navy Arrests Vessel Laden With 350,000 Liters Of ‘Stolen’ Diesel

Ministers for inauguration Monday

Ministerial portfolios: Oil workers demand results as Tinubu heads petroleum ministry

Wike, Umahi, Edun get FCT, Works, Finance ministries

FG mulls intervention as Kenya returns fuel subsidies

FG tackles forex crisis with $3bn loan, Atiku knocks Tinubu

NNPCL’s $3b buffer to strengthen naira, stabilise exchange rate

1,000 bodies buried in 30 Sudan mass graves

Nigeria earns $742bn oil revenue in 21 years – NEITI

N2.6tr debts: NEITI to release audit report

NLNG prolonged shutdown threatens gas production

NEPC eyes $5bn non-oil export revenue

FG vows to end river blindness, others

Forex crisis: TETFund may suspend foreign scholarships

Nigeria recorded surge in malnutrition cases in last five years, says USAID

OOU to investigate allegations of withheld results

MTN issues N100bn commercial papers

Optimus Bank commences operations

NIMASA floating dock built for small boats – Shipping chamber

Nigerian waterways in plastic crisis, says NSML

Count on my support, Patience Jonathan tells Remi Tinubu

Sanusi to Nigerians: Don’t allow President, govs intimidate you

Forgive Shaibu, PDP leaders beg Obaseki

Tribunal reserves judgment in Edeoga’s petition against Mbah

Name lawyers attempting to bribe judges, NBA tells Kano tribunal

More parties to fuse into APC, says Ganduje

Governor inaugurates 21-km road in Ogun West

Plateau gov bans tax collectors’ roadblocks

Gov mourns victims of Delta oil rig collapse

Gov Makinde Pushes For Single 5-Year Tenure After Winning Second Term

Kano screens 10,800 workers employed by Ganduje

Lagos earmarks 38 projects to mitigate climate change

Fuel price hike triggers panic buying in Lagos

Lagos shuts school over four-year-old’s defilement

Police Decorate 247 Newly Promoted Officers In Edo

Benue NMA threatens strike over doctor’s abduction

Over 25,000 birds die as flood destroys Anambra farm

Lawmaker Gives N5,000 Each As Palliative To Over 1,500 Bauchi Women

1000 residents get food in Badagry

Panic in Ibadan communities as mogaji seals 200 houses

Gunmen kidnap Ebonyi family of three, two others

Traditionalists challenge Oluwo’s ban on public sacrifices

Founder flees as Anambra seals orphanage over illegal adoption


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1960, Gabon gained independence from France. France had occupied Gabon since the latter part of the 1800’s. In 1910, the country was added to French Equatorial Africa, a federation of France’s Central African colonies.
  • On this day in 1999, a 7.4-magnitude earthquake struck near İzmit, Turkey, killing more than 17,000 people and leaving some 500,000 homeless.


If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. – Thomas Edison

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Compiled by Joe Agbro Jr (@joeagbro), joeagbro@gmail.com, +234-8056745268

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