*SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES+, 30/06/2025*

Again, armed herders invade Benue community, kill 4 police officers

Flooding: Banks donate over N500m, relief items to Niger

Fuel distribution: Dangote refinery to incur N1tn as logistics cost

PDP NEC meeting holds Monday, says deputy chairman

Julius Berger takes over Oloibiri Museum construction

CAF to unveil new WAFCON trophy Wednesday

Abakaliki FC players survive road accident after Federation Cup final

Trump says he’s found buyer for Tiktok, to be unveiled in two weeks

Police find 381 corpses stacked indiscriminately in Mexico crematorium

Boston museum returns looted artefacts to Oba of Benin

Saudi approves burial of Kano biz mogul, Dantata in Madina

FG securities dominate as pension assets hit N23.65tn

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*DID YOU KNOW?*

* About 70 percent of the world’s cocoa beans come from four West African countries: Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon.

* Giraffes can last longer without drinking water than camels.
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Tinubu halts FRC act, caps dues for private companies

Tinubu decentralises PPP project approvals, MDAs to okay contracts below N20bn

Speaker Abbas pledges N100m start-up capital for Zaria vocational graduates

Africa must shift from raw material exports — Kalu

Court jails aviation ministry worker one-year for job scam

Lagos socialite sues police for N50m over harassment

COAS hails Nigerian army’s legacy at 162, reaffirms national security

Ex-int’l football player, four others arrested over 22.6kg cocaine at MMIA

Tinubu’s St Lucia trip not a vacation, Presidency counters Obi

Mischief makers behind rumours of Akume’s removal as SGF — OSGF

FG pledges steady electricity supply to military bases

FG inaugurates committee to monitor public-private partnership compliance

Minister decries 14m tonnes of ocean plastic waste

Ministry flags rising coastal health threats

NSITF to disburse N172m compensation to seven employees under ECS

Health insurance: NHIA retrieves ₦4.3 million for 54 enrollees, sanctions 47 HMOs

FIRS rewards tax-compliant MSME with car, cash award

NiMet predicts three-day thunderstorms, rains, warns airlines

UNIUYO medical lecturers begin strike over VC appointment

OOU warns female students, staff to avoid masqueraders’ routes

70% of Nigerians lack insurance cover – NCRIB

Firm, foundation open entry for 11th Maltina Teacher

TAJBank grows assets 84%, pays 20 kobo dividend

Signature Bank appoints new MD

Ondo women seek inclusion in AU cocoa development plan

Onitsha Drug Market: Traders tackle NAFDAC over return of banned dealer

Mining dispute escalates in Nasarawa as two firms clash over lease ownership

Kwankwaso betrayed our trust, let APC have him – NNPP

SDP, APC clash over alleged diversion of LG funds in Ondo

North-Central APC Forum endorses Al-Makura for national chairman

South-south APC endorses Tinubu for second term

Hurricane Tinubu: APC launches fresh moves to pull five govs

Osun APC leader cautions Amotekun against political witch-hunting of opposition

Sanwo-Olu, 2,000 delegates for 2nd Lagos fire safety confab 2.0

Soludo orders probe into alleged Anambra anti-touting squad brutality

Kano gov distributes 79,200 bags of subsidised fertiliser to farmers

Delta gov salutes Dein of Agbor at 48

Okpebholo not waiting for Supreme Court to appoint full cabinet – Legal adviser

My redeployment has no link with Sowore’s protest, says Ondo CP Afolabi

Kwara begins land acquisition for FG’s housing scheme

Jigawa earmarks N19.6bn for housing in nine LGs

Edo partners Germany to increase food production

Kwara beggars to clean public places for violating state laws

Kano renames two institutions to honour 22 late athletes

Ogun Govt reaffirms commitment to lawful burial rites for traditional rulers

Ebonyi community parades man naked in Market over alleged witchcraft killings

Abducted Benue Links passengers regain freedom

Police rescue 12 minors, bust child kidnapping ring in Imo

Two feared dead as tipper rams into traders in Taraba

24-year-old nabbed for kidnapping friend, collecting N5.3m in Anambra

Bayelsa student with 320 JAMB score seeks financial support to study Medicine at UNIPORT

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*TODAY IN HISTORY*

* On this day in 1971, the crew of Soviet spacecraft “Soyuz 11” died after the loss of air supply. The cause of the tragedy was a faulty valve. The three cosmonauts had previously achieved the first docking of a spacecraft to a space station in history.

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The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity. – Thomas Huxley

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*Compiled by Hon. Osuji George osujis@yahoo.com +234-8122200446*