![Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [30 August, 2016]](https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/data/attachments/71/71869-29e493cfb28b6caa93dd27140d6a0a1e.jpg)
A
School of Medical Sciences in Ghana, The Kwame Nkrumah University of
Science and Technology, witnessed a historic moment since its inception
with a record set by Nigerian Fathia Ayodele Kareem, who won 12 out of
15 awards to graduating students who distinguished themselves during
their period of study.
Kareem, 25, an alumnus of the Wesley Girls High School, bagged the initial record of 8 out of 15. It was a happy and proud moment for family and friends when she took several turns to receive the awards. According to Ultimate FM, when she was asked if she expected to get the number of awards, she said: “Yes and No. Yes because I worked hard by studying and no because I did not expect to receive these number of awards.” |
![Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [29 August, 2016]](https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/data/attachments/71/71740-29e493cfb28b6caa93dd27140d6a0a1e.jpg)
![Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [23 August, 2016]](https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/data/attachments/71/71030-29e493cfb28b6caa93dd27140d6a0a1e.jpg)
![Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [22 August, 2016]](https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/data/attachments/70/70867-29e493cfb28b6caa93dd27140d6a0a1e.jpg)
| 1350 | John II, also known as John the Good, succeeds Philip VI as king of France. | |
| 1485 | Henry Tudor defeats Richard III at Bosworth. This victory establishes the Tudor dynasty in England and ends the War of the Roses. | |
| 1642 | Civil war in England begins as Charles I declares war on Parliament at Nottingham. | |
| 1717 | The Austrian army forces the Turkish army out of Belgrade, ending the Turkish revival in the Balkans. | |
| 1777 | With the approach of General Benedict Arnold‘s army, British Colonel Barry St. Ledger abandons Fort Stanwix and returns to Canada. | |
| 1849 | The Portuguese governor of Macao, China, is assassinated because of his anti-Chinese policies. | |
| 1911 | The Mona Lisa, the famous painting by Leonardo da Vinci, is stolen from the Louvre in Paris, where it had hung for more than 100 years. It is recovered in 1913. | |
| 1922 | Michael Collins, Irish politician, is killed in an ambush. | |
| 1942 | Brazil declares war on the Axis powers. She is the only South American country to send combat troops into Europe. | |
| 1945 | Soviet troops land at Port Arthur and Dairen on the Kwantung Peninsula in China. | |
| 1945 | Conflict in Vietnam begins when a group of Free French parachute into southern Indochina, in response to a successful coup by communist guerilla Ho Chi Minh. | |
| 1952 | Devil’s Island‘s penal colony is permanently closed. | |
| 1956 | Incumbent US President Dwight D. Eisenhower & Vice President Richard Nixon renominated by Republican convention in San Francisco. | |
| 1962 | OAS (Secret Army Organization) gunmen unsuccessfully attempt to assassinate French president Charles de Gaulle; the incident inspires Frederick Forsyth’s novel, The Day of the Jackal. | |
| 1962 | The world’s first nuclear-powered passenger-cargo ship, NS Savannah, completes its maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va., to Savannah, Ga. | |
| 1968 | First papal visit to Latin America; Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota. | |
| 1969 | Hurricane Camille hits US Gulf Coast, killing 256 and causing $1.421 billion in damages. | |
| 1971 | Bolivian military coup: Col. Hugo Banzer Suarez ousts leftist president, Gen. Juan Jose Torres and assumes power. | |
| 1971 | FBI arrests members of The Camden 28, an anti-war group, as the group is raiding a draft office in Camden, NJ. | |
| 1972 | International Olympic Committee votes 36–31 with 3 abstentions to ban Rhodesia from the games because of the country’s racist policies. | |
| 1975 | US President Gerald Ford survives second assassination attempt in 17 days, this one by Sarah Jane Moore in San Francisco, Cal. | |
| 1983 | Benigno Aquino, the only real opposition on Ferdinand Marcos’ reign as president of the Philippines, is gunned down at Manila Airport. | |
| 1989 | First complete ring around Neptune discovered. | |
| 1995 | During 11-day siege at at Ruby Ridge, Id., FBI HRT sniper Lon Horiuchi kills Vicki Weaver while shooting at another target. | |
| 2003 | Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore is suspended for refusing to comply with federal court order to remove the Ten Commandments from the Alabama Supreme Court building’s lobby. | |
| 2005 | Art heist: a version of The Scream and Madonna, two paintings by Edvard Munch, are stolen at gunpoint from a museum in Oslo, Norway. | |
| 2007 | Most runs scored by any team in modern MLB history as the Texas Rangers thump the Baltimore Orioles 30-3. | |
| Born on August 22 | ||
| 1647 | Denis Papin, inventor of the pressure cooker. | |
| 1880 | George Herriman, cartoonist, creator of Krazy Kat. | |
| 1891 | Jacque Lipchitz, sculptor. | |
| 1893 | Dorothy Parker, poet, satirist and founding member of the Algonquin Round Table. | |
| 1904 | Deng Xiaoping, Chinese leader from 1977 to 1987, held nominal leadership position until his death in 1997. | |
| 1908 | Henri Cartier-Bresson, photographer. | |
| 1917 | John Lee Hooker, blues singer and guitarist. | |
| 1920 | Ray Bradbury, science fiction writer whose works include Fahrenheit 451 and The Martian Chronicles. | |
| 1934 | H. Norman Schwarzkopf, American general and commander of the coalition forces during the Persian Gulf War. | |
| 1935 | Annie Proulx, Pulitzer Prize–winning author (The Shipping News). | |
| 1938 | Delmar Allen “Dale” Hawkins, pioneer rockabilly singer/songwriter (“Suzy Q”). | |
| 1939 | Valerie Harper, actress (Mary Tyler Moore Show, Rhoda). | |
| 1940 | Anthony Crosthwaite-Eyre, English publisher. | |
| 1942 | Kathy Lennon, singer, member of the Lennon Sisters. | |
| 1943 | Masatoshi Shima, Japanese computer scientist who helped develop the Intel 4004, the world’s first commercial microprocessor. | |
| 1947 | Donna Godchaux, singer with The Grateful Dead and Heart of Gold Band. | |
| 1950 | I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney during the administration of Pres. George W. Bush; sentenced to 30 months for felony convictions, his sentence was commuted by Pres. Bush. | |
| 1968 | Rich Lowry, editor of National Review. | |
| 1970 | Giada De Laurentiis, chef and television host. | |
| 1986 | Keiko Kitagawa, Japanese model and actress (Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift). | |
![Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [20 August, 2016]](https://www.nigerianbulletin.com/data/attachments/70/70687-29e493cfb28b6caa93dd27140d6a0a1e.jpg)
Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Saturday, 20 August, 2016. | 917 | A Byzantine counter-offensive is routed by Syeon at Anchialus, Bulgaria. | |
| 1619 | The first group of twenty Africans is brought to Jamestown, Virginia. | |
| 1667 | John Milton publishes Paradise Lost, an epic poem about the fall of Adam and Eve. | |
| 1741 | Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering, commissioned by Peter the Great of Russia to find land connecting Asia and North America, discovers America. | |
| 1794 | American General “Mad Anthony” Wayne defeats the Ohio Indians at the Battle of Fallen Timbers in the Northwest territory, ending Indian resistance in the area. | |
| 1847 | General Winfield Scott wins the Battle of Churubusco on his drive to Mexico City. | |
| 1904 | Dublin’s Abbey Theatre is founded, an outgrowth of the Irish Literary Theatre founded in 1899 by William Butler Yeats and Lady Gregory. | |
| 1908 | The American Great White Fleet arrives in Sydney, Australia, to a warm welcome. | |
| 1913 | 700 feet above Buc, France, parachutist Adolphe Pegoud becomes the first person to jump from an airplane and land safely. | |
| 1914 | Russia wins an early victory over Germany at Gumbinnen. | |
| 1940 | After a previous machine gun attack failed, exiled Russian Leon Trotsky is assassinated in Mexico City, with an alpine ax to the back of the head. | |
| 1940 | Radar is used for the first time, by the British during the Battle of Britain. Also on this day, in a radio broadcast, Winston Churchill makes his famous homage to the Royal Air Force: “Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.” | |
| 1941 | Adolf Hitler authorizes the development of the V-2 missile. | |
| 1944 | United States and British forces close the pincers on German units in the Falaise-Argentan pocket in France. | |
| 1953 | USSR publicly acknowledges it tested a hydrogen bomb eight days earlier. | |
| 1955 | Hundreds killed in anti-French rioting in Morocco and Algeria. | |
| 1960 | USSR recovers 2 dogs, Belka and Strelka, the first animals to be launched into orbit and returned alive (Sputnik 5). | |
| 1961 | East Germany begins erecting a wall along western border to replace barbed wire put up Aug 13; US 1st Battle Group, 18th Infantry Division arrives in West Berlin. | |
| 1964 | US President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Economic Opportunity Act, an anti-poverty measure totaling nearly $1 billion, as part of his War on Poverty. | |
| 1968 | Some 650,000 Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia to quell reformers there. | |
| 1971 | The Cambodian military launches a series of operations against the Khmer Rouge. | |
| 1974 | US Vice President Gerald Ford, who had replaced Spiro Agnew, assumes the Office of the President after Richard Nixon resigns; Ford names Nelson Rockefeller as VP. | |
| 1978 | NASA launches Viking 1; with Viking 2, launched a few days later, provided high-resolution mapping of Mars, revolutionizing existing views of the planets. | |
| 1979 | The Penmanshiel Diversion on the the East Coast Main Line rail route between England and Scotland opens, replacing the 134-year-old Penmanshiel Tunnel that had collapsed in March. | |
| 1980 | UN Security Council condemns Israel’s declaration that all of Jerusalem is its capital; vote is 14-0, with US abstaining. | |
| 1982 | A multinational force including 800 US Marines lands in Beirut, Lebanon, to oversee Palestinian withdrawal during the Lebanese Civil War. | |
| 1986 | Part-time mail carrier Patrick Sherrill shoots 20 fellow workers killing 14 at Edmond Okla., the first mass shooting by an individual in an office environment in the US. His actions give rise to the phrase “going postal,” for sudden violent outbursts. | |
| 1990 | Iraq moves Western hostages to military installations to use them as human shields against air attacks by a US-led multinational coalition. | |
| 1991 | After an attempted coup in the Soviet Union, Estonia declares independence from the USSR. | |
| 1993 | Secret negotiations in Norway lead to agreement on the Oslo Peace Accords, an attempt to resolve the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. | |
| 1994 | Miracle, the Sacred White Buffalo, born on Heider Farm near Janesville, Wisc. The first white (not albino) buffalo born since 1933, she was a important religious symbol for many US and Canadian Indian tribes. | |
| 1998 | The Supreme Court of Canada rules Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government’s approval. | |
| 1998 | US launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaida camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical plant in Sudan in retaliation for the Aug. 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. | |
| 2002 | A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein seize the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin; after five hours they release their hostages and surrender. | |
| Born on August 20 | ||
| 1833 | Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States and grandson of President William Henry Harrison. | |
| 1886 | Paul Tillich, theologian and philosopher who wrote Systematic Theology. | |
| 1890 | H.P. Lovecraft, author of horror tales; created the Cthulhu mythos. | |
| 1905 | Jack Teagarden, jazz trombonist. | |
| 1941 | Slobodan Milosevic, President of Serbia (1989–1997) and of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1997–2000); tried by UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for war crimes but died before trial concluded. | |
| 1942 | Isaac Hayes, composer, musician, actor, voice-over actor; co-wrote “Soul Man,” won Academy Award for his composition “Theme from Shaft.” | |
| 1944 | Rajiv Gandhi, Prime Minster of India. | |
| 1952 | John Hiatt, singer/songwriter (“Have a Little Faith in Me”). | |
| 1954 | Al Roker, weatherman (Today on NBC; Weather Channel). | |
| 1958 | Patricia Rozema, film director, screenwriter (Mansfield Park). | |
| 1974 | Amy Adams, actress; multiple nominations for Academy Awards, Golden Globe and BAFTA awards (Enchanted, The Fighter). | |
Scores of students of Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Ogun State, went on the rampage, on Thursday, over alleged incessant robbery attacks on school hostels within and outside the campus.
Two policemen and a student were injured while several vehicles were burnt during the protest, which lasted for about six hours. A student was allegedly cut with a machete on the head during the protest.
Our correspondent, who visited the scene, saw no fewer than seven vehicles that were set ablaze.
A police post at Osiele and another vehicle parked on the premises, as well as six other vehicles along the Abeokuta-Ibadan Road were set ablaze.
Also, the church, allegedly headed by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Olusola Oyewole, Divine Heights Bible Church, Kotopo, along the Abeokuta-Ibadan Road, was also vandalised by the students while the windshields and wing mirrors of four vehicles on the premises were shattered.
PUNCH Metro learnt the students’ protest followed an attack by armed robbers on Adejoke Hostel in Isolu community in the early hours of Wednesday. The hostel is some distance away from the school.
It was gathered that the incident infuriated the students who claimed they had been left to their fate by the institution’s management.
The protest, which started as early as 6am, paralysed academic and administrative activities in the institution, causing gridlock along the Abeokuta-Ibadan Road.
Many students and workers of the institution were stranded at different bus stops.
Our correspondent learnt that the protest had been peaceful until a police team arrived at the scene. The students allegedly confronted the cops, leading to the riot.
A 100-level student of Forestry and Wildlife, identified as Taiwo Abisoye, was hit by a tear gas canister allegedly fired by a policeman.
The Chairman, National Association of Nigerian Students, Ogun State chapter, Dotun Opaleye, said Abisoye was responding to treatment at the Federal Medical Centre, Idi Aba, Abeokuta.
The Ogun State acting Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, said the policemen drafted to the scene of the incident addressed the students for almost three hours.
He said the policemen had to fire tear gas canisters to disperse the protesting students and hoodlums who had joined them, adding that 34 suspects had been arrested.
“We never shot at any student. We only fired tear gas canisters to disperse the hoodlums who had hijacked the peaceful protest. We have arrested 34 suspects, many of them were artisans.
“Nobody was killed. Some were injured. One student and two policemen were injured. The student was hit on his head by a stone thrown by his colleagues. The same students injured the two policemen.”
Tension gripped residents of the school’s environs but the deployment of riot policemen, men of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, and the Special Anti-Robbery Squad, brought the situation under control.
Men of the Ogun State Fire Service were also on the ground to put out the fire in the cars set ablaze by the students.
Meanwhile, the institution’s management has directed that all the students of the institution should embark on a seven-day break to enable it to put in place proper security arrangement for staff and students.
A statement issued by the institution’s Head, Directorate of Public Relations, Mrs. Emi Alawode, said the break was with immediate effect.
The statement read in part, “This is to enable the university to put additional welfare and security arrangements in place in order to further support the initiatives of the federal and state governments, towards the protection of lives and property of citizens, particularly, the members of staff and students of the university.”of lives and properties of its citizens, particularly, members of staff and students of the university.”
