NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 3RD AUGUST 2023

NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 3RD AUGUST 2023

Mary Akanbi

3rd August, 2023

Read the latest breaking news headlines, Nigerian news, Entertainment, Sports & Business below;

Punch

#Subsidyprotests: Banks, offices shut amid rallies, labour demands N200,000 wage

Niger: Nigeria cuts power supply, ECOWAS vows to confront junta

Port Harcourt refinery to commence operations December — Tinubu

Oyetola, Lalong, Bagudu, 16 others make second ministerial list

FG asks court to jail NLC, TUC leaders for contempt

Labour unions to suspend protests after meeting Tinubu — Presidency

Canadian PM Trudeau separates from wife

INEC wants policemen, journalists to vote during polls

FG mourns ex-Cote d’Ivoire’s president’s death

Gas will be major energy source till 2030 – FG

Local refining will reduce petrol price by N70/ltr – Marketers

FG delists 18 illegal loan apps

7.8 million SMEs die in two years — ASBON

75% of Nigerian pupils poor in literacy, says UNICEF

Apapa Customs command generated N119bn revenue in June – Comptroller

OGFZA remits N138bn revenue to FG

Lekki port handles 3,561 TEUs in three months

Equity market rebounds after four-day dip

FCMB Group grows profit to N38.2bn

How Obi found ‘missing phones’ at tribunal – Aide

PDP inaugurates campaign councils for Bayelsa, Imo, Kogi polls

Edo honours Odigie-Oyegun @84

Makinde advocates technology for border security

Kano needs N6bn for schools’ furniture – Commissioner

Lagos govt lists 213 children for free limb surgery

Sit-at-home: Police won’t abandon you, CP tells injured cops

Suspended Plateau LG chairmen ask police to unseal offices

Subsidy: Zamfara orders distribution of foodstuff as palliatives

Ondo oil-producing area indigenes protest unpaid bursary

Lagos probes doctor’s death in hospital elevator, colleagues shun work

Two killed, many abducted in Niger terror attack

Neurologists seek release of colleague kidnapped in C’River

Protesting residents demand more commissioner slots for Ikorodu

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The Nation

Labour protest: Workers storm streets in states

Ministers: Oyetola, Bagudu, Matawalle, 16 others on supplementary list

10 ECOWAS defence chiefs meet in Abuja

Tinubu urges UK to build stronger economic, defence ties with Nigeria, Africa 

Protest: NASS pledges to address Labour demands in 7days

Tiktoker jailed three years for cyberstalking actress Eniola Badmus

FG threatens to shut Chevron Warri jetty in two weeks

Fed Govt raises alarm over attacks on digital infrastructure

Fed Govt to states: take over HIV response, funding

Protesters pull down NASS gate, take over premises

APC NEC to decide fate of NWC members Thursday

President to APC leadership: embrace financial discipline, women, youth inclusion

AAC’s Sowore joins NLC protest in Lagos

NLC protest: Obaseki promises N500m for poor residents

Abiodun: we’ve taken ownership of Tinubu’s economic framework

Workers return to office after protest in Ondo

Workers’ protest paralyses Ekiti

NLC protest grounds Ebonyi

Palliatives: Lagos hospitals begin free antenatal, delivery services 

Oyo opens alternative road at Olodo

Gunmen attack Senator’s farm, kill one in Kwara

Ekiti communities seek Tinubu’s, Oyebanji’s intervention in college location

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Vanguard

Labour protests hardship as Tinubu wades in

NLC, TUC have resolved to suspend protest – Presidency

Port Harcourt refineries to start production in 4 months, Tinubu assures Labour

COUP: Nigeria cuts power supply to Niger Republic

Niger Coup: Nigeria tightens border, blocks illegal routes in Katsina

NMA declares strike in 3 Lagos hospitals over colleague’s death

FG files contempt proceeding against NLC, TUC over protests

Sit-at-home enforcers killed 250 people in 2 years — Ohanaeze

American internet wizard, McHenry traces origin to Igboland, says Ohaneze

NYP lauds Tinubu for including more women, youth on Ministerial list

Labour protest: Gov Eno to constitute C’mttee for palliatives distribution

Gov Mbah inaugurates Committee to verify, clear outstanding pensions, gratuities

Abia govt procures new buckets for waste disposal, solicit assistance

Gov Radda urges new Katsina cabinet to drive growth and development

We can’t bear the suffering any more – Anambra NLC tells Tinubu

Court remands bank staff in Kwara over alleged stealing of N22.1m

Olubadan begins 1st year anniversary celebration, Thursday

Kano CP declares three notorious thugs wanted, places N300k reward

Gunmen kill former senator’s kinsman on his farm in Kwara

Suspected pirates off-load travellers on Rivers high sea, cart away boat

Why I gave trader, son 2m naira – D’banj

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*TODAY IN HISTORY*

* Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala resigned on this day in 2006 as Nigeria's Foreign Minister following her sudden removal as head of Nigeria's Economic Intelligence team by President Olusegun Obasanjo.

* Germany invades Belgium on this day in 1914 and declares war on France, beginning World War I

* On this day in 1934, Adolf Hitler merges the offices of German Chancellor and President, declaring himself ‘Fuhrer’ (Leader)

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