SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 29/08/2024

NCC announces Sept 14 ‘final’ deadline for NIN-SIM linkage compliance

Government plans evacuation, camps as flood hits 28 states

Bankers’ Committee completes National Theatre renovation

Strike: FG, ASUU meeting postponed to Sept 6

FG frees Polish students, lecturer detained over hunger protest

NLC plans mass procession as Ajaero honours police invitation

Police Killed, Took 4 Corpses Of Our Members – Shi’ites

The Paris Paralympics open in City of Light

At least 25 killed in Yemen deadly flash floods

North Korea’s Kim attends test-firing of rocket launcher

14 African countries pledge $45m donation to WHO

South Africa’s Johan Rupert overtakes Dangote as Africa’s richest man

Mpox may affect Nigerian, African economies – Fitch

Nigerian pilot faces five-year jail for falsifying statements in US

FG reveals identity of woman threatening mass killing of Nigerians in Canada

Nigeria, Benin Republic open dry port trade office in Kano

Nigeria Air Was Politicised, We’ve Backed Out – Ethiopian Airlines CEO


DID YOU KNOW?

  • The largest living thing on Earth is a tree. This Giant Sequoia is named General Sherman and can be found protected at California’s Sequoia National Park. The tree is recorded to be 52,500 cubic feet in volume.
  • Kangaroos never stop growing. From birth, they will continue to grow until they pass away. They are also the largest marsupials on the planet.

153 million SIMs now linked to NIN – NCC

Alleged terrorism: Court grants DIA’s request to detain policeman, 19 others for 30 days

Navy buries officer who drowned while saving 59 crew members

72 illegal refineries uncovered in one week – NNPC

Meter payments to be spread over 10 years, says minister

Edo guber: 125,928 new PVCs collected in five days – INEC

Non-Oil Export Revenue Hit $2.7bn In Q1 2024 – NEPC

NCDMB, NLNG inaugurate galvanising plant for Train 7

Nigeria handles 35% of W’African cargoes annually – NPA

FG provides grants to 32 innovators

NNPC begins free eye-care programme in Lagos

Financial autonomy: ALGON partners EFCC on accountability

Committee Of Pro-Chancellors Appoints Former Head Of Service , Dr Ahmed, As Chairman

No to online medical school, MDCN warns

Methodist Church Nigeria disowns Zimbabwean bishop deported by NIS

PMAN not in crisis, Pretty Okafor remains suspended – NWC

Nigeria, others lost $6m to stowaways in 2023 – Report

100 businesses to exhibit at Ecobank’s ‘Oja Oge’

TGI Foods SPV launches N25bn commercial papers

A’Ibom group writes NOSDRA over fresh oil spill, demands clean up

Mobil Trust donates three ambulances to Akwa Ibom community

Bode George to Atiku: You can only contest in 2031, not 2027

I’m preoccupied with Nigeria’s plight, not 2027, Atiku knocks Bode George

Obi, Otti Fix LP Stakeholders Meeting For Sept 4

Tertiary education age limit: Tinubu’s govt is like sailor lost on high seas – Atiku

Sanwo-Olu announces return of ‘Ounje Eko’ Sunday market

Obaseki to name Edo Arena after Rema

Gov Yusuf Orders Closure Of MDAs’ Accounts

Plateau Assembly Reduces Tenure Of LG Officials To 2 Years

Dumping refuse in drainage to attract heavy sanctions, says Delta waste board

Kaduna begins 200-hectare housing project

We’re prepared for M-pox clade 1B — Lagos govt

Delta taskforce shuts 50 illegal medicine stores, alleges counterfeit, fake drugs

Gombe enrols 1,000 Almajiris in health insurance

No threat of attack in Niger – Police

54-year-old Nigerian woman delivers 11 babies in Cotonou, cries for help

‘Pray for me’, TG Omori shares update on failed kidney transplant


TODAY IN HISTORY

  • On this day in 2003, Globacom, Nigeria’s second national carrier, started operations.
  • On this day in 1949, the Soviet Union tested its first Atomic Bomb. Code named Izdeliye 501 or First Lightening, the 22 kiloton atomic bomb was detonated at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in Kazakhstan.

Be yourself. Ultimately just be yourself. – Wole Soyinka

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

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