SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 23/10/2024

Naira-for-crude: Dangote gets NNPCL’s first supply

Computer-based WASSCE starts Friday – WAEC

LG autonomy: FG plans sanctions against defaulting states

PDP Pushes NEC Meeting To November 28

Airline operators confirm Jet A1 purchase from Dangote

Farouk Lawan regains freedom from Kuje prison

Abort ‘japa’ plans, fight for better Nigeria – Femi Kuti

China to further optimise visa waiver policies

Botched AFCON qualifier: CAF decides Nigeria, Libya fate today

Players Injured As Bus Conveying Kano Pillars Team To Jos Crashes

FG investigating Gulf of Guinea as major route for arms trafficking – NSA


DID YOU KNOW?

  • During the Tang Dynasty that ruled between 618 and 907, China invented paper money. There used to be a warning written right on the bills that all counterfeiters would be decapitated.
  • Elephant pregnancy is the longest out of any mammal. Their calves take 2 years in the womb to develop fully.

Tinubu begs varsity workers to allow negotiations

Buy petrol at N1,000 per litre; CNG at N200, Tinubu tells Nigerians

Tinubu meets NIPCO executives, commends investments in CNG sector

Senate summons Marwa over NDLEA’s allegation against Ashiru

Senate passes Bill on Food Reserve Agency for second reading

Infrastructure deficit in Abuja widespread — Abbas

Reps to investigate road Infrastructure credit scheme

Reps frown over cases of one chance operators in FCT

AGF faults Kogi, 18 States’ suit querying legitimacy of EFCC, ICPC, NFIU

Court sacks Kano electoral commission chairman, members four days to LG poll

New AIG assumes duty in zone 16, Yenagoa

Air Force loses five officers in auto crash along Jos-Akwanga Road

Nigeria loses over $500m to cybercrime annually – EFCC chair

FG bans cooking gas export over rising prices

NNPC acquires equipment for new 40 CNG stations

Nigeria still borrowing amid high debt costs – IMF

FG handling Air Peace Heathrow landing slot matter internally – Minister

Discos responsible for phased-out meters replacement – FCCPC

INEC distributes 55,859 PVCs for Ondo Gov poll

N250bn debt: Telcos seek NCC approval to stop bank transfer services

105 bankers involved in N59bn fraud – Report

NSCDC decorates 207 newly promoted officers in Edo

Wike declares war on beggars in FCT streets

Unending grid collapses threaten survival of businesses — OPS

5% excise tax: Telcos’ll soon die like NITEL — MTN CEO, Toriola

Olokun Festival has brought more spiritual gains to Badagry – Gani Adams

PDP crisis: Bauchi gov makes U-turn, accepts Damagum’s leadership

APC postpones Rivers elective congresses indefinitely

Yusuf receives minimum wage report

Edo: Transition committee meeting stalls over document disputes

Oborevwori appoints Prof Asagba Delsu VC

Jigawa Explosion: 181 Killed, 80 Hospitalised, 210 Families Affected – Gov

Otti approves N70,000 minimum wage for Abia workers

Abia Assembly urges federal, states to speed action on Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene road

Court orders probe of suspended Jigawa commissioner, lover

Abia, Imo traders count their losses over 2-day sit-at-home

Roads remain empty in Anambra over sit-at-home

Suspected sit-at-home enforcers kill two in Aba 

Ogun, SFH target 3.1m residents for free insecticide-treated nets

Four nabbed for corps member disappearance in Rivers

Family of toddler shot in the eye by NDLEA personnel decries abandonment


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 1962, Nigerian boxer, Richard ‘Dick Tiger’ Ihetu, won the world middle weight boxing crown beating Gene Fullmer by unanimous decision at the Candlestick Park, San Francisco, USA
  • On this day in 1983, two bombs exploded in front of American and French barracks in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War, killing about 300 French and American military personnel. Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the bombings.

There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you. – Pele

Good morning

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

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