SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 09/04/2020
Punch
Global coronavirus deaths top 86,000
Lagos coronavirus cases now 135
Coronavirus: Military deploys 80 doctors in 21 hospitals, distributes oxygen
COVID-19: Russia’s health workers get $1,000 additional monthly bonus
Coronavirus: Egypt extends nationwide curfew by 15 days
Sifax supports COVID-19 fight with N130m
Discos offer customers two-month free electricity
Fire guts Accountant General unit’s office, FG orders probe
FG slashes budget, sends to National Assembly for review
$320m Abacha loot: Nigeria opposes US senator’s moves against return
EFCC arraigns bankers over alleged school feeding fraud
Telecom operators not laying 5G cables, says NCC
B’Haram targets army location, scores killed
We’ve secured funding for refineries revamp – NNPC
We’ve not postponed SSCE, basic education exams –NECO
COVID-19: ASUU donates sanitisers to Edo, Ekiti
Fix refineries before petrol subsidy removal – PENGASSAN, NUPENG
Stock market extends gain by N77bn
Rivers no-flight order: 10 Caverton Helicopters’ passengers remanded
Airline operators, pilots threaten to boycott flights to Rivers
Naira rain as Matawalle visits patients
Edo traces 286 contacts, laments false passengers’ details
Oyo to explore local solutions in combating COVID-19
Protest in Osun over failed food promise
Osun food relief committee shops for N1bn
Niger quarantines 27 contacts of fleeing suspect
Kidnappers release Bauchi gov’s brother after 13 days
Sokoto orders prosecution of eight lockdown offenders
Soldiers chase errant Abuja residents with rod
Kaduna threatens 14-day quarantine for travellers into state
Men arrested for possession of used female pants
Cultists shoot OPC member dead in Ogun, spare pregnant wife
Benue men burn Ekiti chief alive inside bush
(www.punchng.com)
The Nation
Nigeria records 22 new COVID-19 cases, total now 276
COVID-19: Chinese doctors sent on 14 days isolation
67 returnees from Ivory Coast quarantined in Badagry
COVID-19: Anxiety in Warri as Delta records first case
Iran: 600 people die from drinking alcohol to cure Coronavirus
Court sends Naira Marley, PDP chief to 14-day isolation
NDIC contributes N1b to COVID-19 relief fund
NDDC DG Pondei defends N1b donation
We approved flight by Caverton helicopters into Port Harcourt – FG
Private hospitals must get certification to treat COVID-19 – FG
Lawan urges fairness in stimulus package distribution
Reps donate N5m to Osun COVID-19 fund
NNPC to stop running refineries, says Kyari
Army takes delivery of $152m armoured tanks
Expose pupils to tech, demystify STEM, says minister
Fed Govt, Rivers locked in showdown over pilots
COVID-19: Re-open courts, Falana tells CJN
Man, 58, arrested over sodomy for rituals
APC UK mourns death of Publicity Secretary, Philip Ilenbarenemen
Akeredolu: owner of explosives will pay for damaged properties
Lagos: Our relief materials weren’t looted from warehouse
Edo introduces digital homeschooling resources
COVID-19: Anambra launches radio/TV lessons
Gunmen abduct medical doctor in Ekiti
COVID-19: Ondo grants permission for church Easter service
(www.thenationonlineng.net)
Vanguard
COVID-19: Air Peace delivers 2nd batch of medical supplies, personnel from China
Nigerian pilots demand immediate release of colleagues by Rivers govt
COVID-19: Again, EFCC cautions Nigerians against fake donations, cures
COVID- 19: Lagos partners Naija FM, South Saharan for students’ audio lessons
COVID-19: WAEC provides online resources for 2020 candidates
FG to shut down oil refineries for upgrade — NNPC GMD
Tin-Can Customs rakes in N30.7bn in March
NUPENG seeks justice over killing of Abia petrol station worker
PDP calls for investigation into Treasury House fire
NGO gives laptop, cash prizes to best science students in Osun
Gov. Masari urges NCDC to release Covid-19 tests for 35 on quarantine
Covid-19: Wike evicts Carveton Helicopters from Rivers over unsafe operations
Covid-19: Imam in Kaduna loses position for complying with social distancing order
COVID-19: Taraba relaxes lockdown order
COVID-19 Restriction order: Police arrest 21 defaulters in Sokoto
Land Dispute: Abuja council boss laments killing of natives by soldiers
Qatar denies bribery allegations on 2022 world cup
PREMIER LEAGUE TO END SEASON DUE TO CORONAVIRUS UNCERTAINTY
Bishop Sam Zuga heals Policewoman with Issue of blood
How ‘Naira Marley’ fans stormed court in support of singer, as Lagos drops case
(www.vanguardngr.com)
Nothing relieves and ventilates the mind like a resolution. – John Burroughs
