SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 12/08/2020
Punch
Senate probes FIIRO’s alleged extra budgetary spending
NSIP probe not about Osinbajo, say Reps
Outrage greets death sentence on Kano musician for blasphemy
Rivers widow: Inspector, two others face orderly room trial
Police extort money from student for using two phones
SARS arrests Imo suspects who kidnapped American returnees
DSS invites Mailafia for accusing gov of sponsoring Boko Haram
Army chaplain dismissed for sleeping with lady seeks reinstatement
Imo, Bayelsa, Lagos senatorial bye-elections hold Oct 31
NECO fixes 2020 BECE, SSCE for August, October
Over five million candidates jostle for 400,000 N-Power jobs
IPPIS is a foreign platform, says ASUU
32,800 generators powering ICT infrastructure, FG laments
Air Peace to recall some pilots as FG intervenes
Our mandate is Igbo presidency, not Biafra – Ohanaeze chief
Kashamu planned to hand over Ogun PDP structure to me – Daniel
Ikpeazu denies blaming Kanu for Abia’s economic woes
441 First Class graduates take Oyo teaching service test
Assembly considers punishment for cultists’ parents
Mbaka reopens Adoration ground, decries attacks
15 persons declared wanted over Ekiti festival crisis, killings
Police uncover Rivers baby factory, arrest seven, rescue newborn
I spent 82 days in detention – Student who created Jonathan’s parody account
(www.punchng.com)
The Nation
Buhari: more weapons, jets coming for insurgency fight
COVID-19 cases now 47,290 in Nigeria
Fed Govt receives 200 ventilators from US
Russia unveils first COVID-19 vaccine
FIRS generates N3billion weekly from stamp duty
CBN pegs equity funding for agric schemes at N2b
Three Corps members, 19 undergraduates held for internet fraud
NIDCOM partners Anambra on Diasporan investments
Wema Bank launches collateral-free loans for SMEs
Ecobank unveils card-less ATMs
Prestige Assurance floats N6.82b rights issue
Court stops Edo govt’s defamatory publications on Okunbor
I’ll send Obasanjo back to prison if I become President, says Fayose
Akeredolu to Buhari: increase police’ funding
Why Sanwo-Olu earmarked N1bn palliatives for entertainers, tourism players
Sanwo-Olu heads Ondo campaign council
Ilorin resident doctors protest members’ attack
Borno NDLEA Command arrests 85 suspects, impounds 20.706kgs illicit drugs
16,697,639kg drugs destroyed in Plateau
Lagos pays over N1b benefit to 259 retirees
IPOB to retaliate killings in Bayelsa
Eight million people at risk of flooding in Lagos
Man sells own baby to pay wife’s delivery bill
(www.thenationonlineng.net)
Vanguard
Russia becomes first country to approve COVID-19 vaccine, says Putin
House of Reps assesses effects of tank farms location on Lagos residents
Internet fraud: EFCC arrests 3 NYSC members, 19 undergraduates, 10 others
Stamp Duty: FG to support states to recover backlog
Security: NAF to establish base, deploy air assets in Gombe
Over 5 million applied for N-Power Batch-C — FG
NUP rejects FG’s claim of 23,089 dead pensioners on its payroll
NSE MARKET INDICES DROP FURTHER 0.58%
NIMASA, SHIP OWNERS SET FOR DOUBLE HULL VESSEL REGIME
38 KILLED DURING PEACE DEAL DISARMAMENT IN SOUTH SUDAN
SUCCESS RESURFACES, SAYS PROMISES MADE TO HER FAMILY ARE ‘FAKE’
INFERTILITY: 621 MEDICAL EXPERTS ADVOCATE BETTER MANAGEMENT OF ENDOMETRIOSIS
I’ll always be there for you, Atiku tells Nigerian youths
Ondo: Sanwo-Olu heads 104-Member APC Campaign Council
Nigeria’s post-Covid-19 prosperity lies with farmers ― Ayade
Gov Abiodun flags off 2020 wet season rice harvest in Ogun
Don’t politicise issues of security, Matawalle urges Nigerians
We’ll not be intimidated by your threats ― Benue tells Miyetti Allah
Abaji Area Council inaugurates21-man Cttee on Child Rights Implementation
Lagos courts delivered judgments on 122 sexual offences in 2020 – DPP
(www.vanguardngr.com)
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