SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 21/08/2024

NNPC reports N9.3tn petrol imports as queues linger

Producers decline sale of 460,000bpd crude to Dangote refinery

$3bn Badagry seaport seeks financial partners

NLC president Ajaero shuns police invitation on terrorism financing, others

NLC directs workers to shut down economy if Ajaero is arrested

Kano electoral commission justifies N10m LG candidates’ fee

NCDC sounds alarm on deadly Mpox clade 1 strain

Two siblings die in another Niger mine collapse

Tekno didn’t collapse; he is in Malaba – Mr Eazi

Jennifer Lopez files to divorce Ben Affleck

Fake degrees: Uganda, Kenya demand Nigerian students’ verification

UK donates counter-insurgency training facility to Nigeria

US pledges $27 Million to Nigeria for Humanitarian Assistance


DID YOU KNOW?

  • Iceland has no standing army. However, it is a member of organisations like the United Nations (UN) and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
  • In 1991, Tim Berners-Lee launched the World Wide Web, and the internet as we know it was born

Tinubu appoints new leaderships for Digital Bridge Institute, NIGCOMSAT

IGP’s dedication to justice, security commendable – Tinubu

AGF seeks time to retrieve casefile in ex-CJN Onnoghen’s CCT trial

A’Court overturns Kogi Court ruling shielding Yahaya Bello from arraignment

Philip Shaibu Floors Obaseki Again As Appeal Court Voids Impeachment

Ebonyi court slams N10m fine on Ecobank over use of bizman’s BVN

Akume, Edun lead 10-man LG autonomy implementation panel

Diaspora remittances rise 130% to $553m – CBN

$500m bond investors to get 9.7%, barred from naira conversion

NMDPRA issues operational licence to Edo refinery

Businesses, households must be metered before 2030 – FG

Nigeria set to migrate its Internet Protocols from IPv4 to IPv6, says Minister

SEC to license cryptocurrency firms

FG to save N10bn on COP29 expenditure with cost-cutting measures

National Productivity Centre plans one million jobs

Ogun INEC REC slumps, dies in Abuja

INEC lists 2,629,025 voters to elect next Edo gov

Aviation workers halt planned protest over revenue slash

BVN quickens Heritage Bank customers’ reimbursement – NDIC

Mobil not responsible for A’Ibom oil spill – Manager

Isese Day: Adherents advocate traditional oaths for public officials

Ex-Minister Onu for burial November 8

Police, again, fail to arraign protesters, says Deji Adeyanju

Yoruba community in Enugu gets 1st Oba

Nigerians Deserve Explanations On New, Old Presidential Jets –Peter Obi

2027: APC kicks as PDP backs call for Jonathan’s return

SDP berates Ododo for appointing 1,192 more aides

LG election candidates must be financially bouyant, says Kano NNPP

PDP intensifies campaigns as Igbodalo returns from US

Fubara receives PDP leaders, denies defection plan

Zulum shares FG’s foodstuffs to 10,000 households in Borno

Otti approves renovation of 200 health centres

Plateau Gov approves minor cabinet reshuffle

Mutfwang suspends two Commissioners, two Special Advisers

Matawalle donates N20m to Zamfara flood victims

A’Ibom buys new aircraft, plans aviation village

Houses built by illegal developers risk demolition, says Anambra

Oyo begins N513m payment for acquired land

Rivers confirms two cases of Mpox

Lagos council plans N30m loan for farmers

Benue CP leads team to rescue abducted medical students

Police bust kidnappers’ den, rescue victim in Anambra

Widower paralysed after police brutality in Lagos

Man Dies Undergoing 19-Day Fast In Lagos


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1933, the Nigeria Football Association (NFA) was formed.
  • On this day in 1911, ‘Mona Lisa’, the famed Leonardo da Vinci painting, was stolen in Paris, France, by a Louvre employee. It was recovered two years later in Italy.

You don’t know who is important to you until you actually lose them. – Mahatma Gandhi

Good morning

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

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