SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 21/05/2024

Tariff hike: Electricity workers lock out minister, issue 14-day ultimatum

Minimum wage: Labour insists on May 31 deadline as talks resume today

Naira appreciates to N1,475/$ in parallel market

Student loan: 1.2m beneficiaries listed as scheme begins Friday

Only Those From Federal Institutions Can Access Student Loan Immediately – FG

Food imports hit N3tn over flooding, insecurity – CBN

Port Harcourt refinery begins operation July

Rectors debate proposal to replace HND with Bachelor of Technology

Ekiti poly bans tattoos, hair colouring by students

Abuja shopping complex shut after assault on soldiers

Fresh tension rises between Okuama-Ewu, Okoloba

I Need 35 Different Visas To Travel Within Africa – Dangote

Two Chibok girls graduate from U.S colleges

Unpaid congestion charges in London: Nigerian high commission accumulates £8.4m

ICC seeks arrest warrant for Netanyahu, Hamas over ‘war crimes’ 

Biden opposes ICC move to arrest Netanyahu for war crimes

Corruption: Court bars Zuma from running for parliament

Iran declares 5-day mourning for President Raisi

Why we relocated ECOWAS parliamentary Assembly from Abuja to Kano –Barau

State police solution to worsening insecurity – Senate Leader

Reps threaten to block MDAs accounts for shunning probe

CJN: no judge should bow to public opinion

Judges’ salaries reviewed 17 years ago, says AGF

AGF, NJC, RMAFC, others back proposed 300% salary, allowance increase for judges

Kano mosque attack: Court remands principal suspect

Binance calls charges ‘meritless’ after Abuja court denied employee bail

IPOB: Kanu fumes as court dismisses bail application

Bello: Hearing in EFCC’s boss appeal against contempt adjourned indefinitely

Junior Olympics: Nigerian Ambassador To Singapore Hosts Team Nigeria

Tinubu’s 1 year anniversary begins May 22 – Committee

Abuja Light Rail for inauguration May 27, says Wike

Lokpobiri urges UAE to invest in Nigeria crude oil pipeline

FG shortlists 5,000 for oil sector overseas scholarship exams

NDDC inaugurates N248m substation in Edo

Jonathan flags off N222.1bn Trans-Kalabari Road project

ASUP rejects new governing councils

Employ more lecturers, ASUU tells FG

180 Golfers Hunt For N35m In Rowland Adewumi Golf Classic Tourney

Ex-First Bank chairman, Afonja, dies at 82

UBA will meet N500bn capital base before deadline – CFO

Ogoni leaders divided over moves to resume oil exploration

Gov to sign Kano bombing mastermind’s death warrant

Otti pledges collaboration with NAFDAC to fight fake drugs

Oyo deputy governor to lead remaining 110 intending pilgrims to Saudi Arabia

Delta State set to host National Youth Games in Sept

Urban renewal: Ekiti pays N300m for demolished buildings

Osun Assembly proposes pay rise for political officeholders

Lagos seals 840 event centres over safety violations in one year

Councillors flay LG chairmen over alleged plan to hold anti-Fubara’s protest

Three men arraigned for assaulting Ogun medical doctor

Bandits abduct pregnant Customs officer’s wife, his 3 children, brother in Abuja

Another 2 beheaded in Ebonyi community

Police arrest man who ‘attempted stealing BNXN’s jewellery box’ in Spain


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1904, FIFA, the world governing body of association football, was founded. The Fédération Internationale de Football Association is responsible for the organization of the World Cup, which is one of the world’s most viewed sporting events.
  • On this day in 1932, Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo nonstop across the Atlantic. The U.S. aviatress’ disappearance on an attempted round-the-world flight five years later is one of the most discussed unsolved mysteries in the history of flight.

To do the impossible, you need to ignore the popular. – Tim Ferriss

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

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