SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 19/05/2020

Punch
Oil price rises to two-month high of $35

We didn’t sponsor NCDC bill – Gates Foundation

China pledges $2bn to fight global pandemic

Chinese medical team concludes assignment, stranded in Nigeria

Lagos, Kano, Borno account for 52% COVID-19 deaths – FG

Ghanaian police shoot Nigerian dead while partying

NCDC bill: Prove $10m bribe allegation, Reps tell CUPP

Orji Kalu seeks freedom after S’Court judgment

Fasoranti’s daughter: Quarantined suspect discharged, heads for prison

No tribalism in FIRS, says Nami

Onu overrules board, ICPC, orders demoted FIIRO boss reinstatement

NDDC writes National Assembly, seeks virement in 2019 budget


FG targets five million jobs from €995m agric programme

UNIMED begins second semester with online lectures

NSCIA urges Muslims to look out for Moon Friday

Suspicion greets FG school feeding programme amid lockdown

IPPIS has led to shortfalls in salaries – Poly lecturers

Sports ministry wants Redknapp to manage Eagles

Obaseki greets Oba of Benin on birth of new Prince

Akeredolu may lift ban on churches, mosques

Zamfara receives another set of 45 almajirai from Kaduna

Niger notorious sex offender arrested for raping 20-year-old girl

COVID-19, political tool for economic benefits –Kogi Speaker

Woman dies after Rivers palliative sharing stampede

BRT driver who killed businesswoman handed over to police

Rivers demolished hotel owner cries out over manager’s confinement

Security guard kills Lagos driver with tear gas

Lagos discharges 15 more COVID-19 patients

Lalong sets up COVID-19 cure committee

36 dead as Kano’s COVID-19 cases hit 825

Police parade couple, Oyo cleric’s aides over twins’ abduction

Journalist detained 12 days for criticising Lai Mohammed –CDHR

(www.punchng.com)




The Nation
COVID-19: Nigeria isn’t ripe for total relaxation of lockdown – Buhari

Inter-state travel ban, curfew to continue for two weeks

NCDC: Cross River deserves COVID-19–free status

NCDC opens 26th laboratory

WHO: Our attention is on available COVID-19 drug formulations

Boko Haram: 20 killed as troops attack insurgents’ convoy

Multiple explosions rock Borno

Supreme Court verdict on Udeogu shocking, says Sagay

Udeogu (Kalu) case: Major setback for justice administration

High Court begins virtual hearing of cases

99 per cent of Nigerians aware of COVID-19, says Lai Mohammed

CBN, NNPC to spend N1b on returnees quarantine

You underpaid PAYE tax, FG slams ASUU

Yar’Adua’s family gives FCTA personal protective gears, food

1,180 ASUU members fail BVN test, says Fed Govt

NYSC mourns former DG who introduced flag, anthem

NURTW President warns drivers against flouting interstate restrictions

APC inaugurates Bulama as secretary

COVID-19: Kano reviews lockdown, approves EID prayers

18 discharged, 11 test positive in Oyo

(www.thenationonlineng.net)




Vanguard
FAKE NEWS HINDERING OUR EFFORTS AGAINST COVID-19 — PTF

Nigeria’s COVID-19 cases reach 6,175, fatalities 191

Trump calls World Health Organisation ‘puppet of China’

US SAYS CHINA MUST PAY $2 BN WHO PLEDGE

South African president says citizens have right to sue govt over Lockdown

Chris Oyakhilome’s TV station sanctioned in UK over COVID-19 claims

Presymptomatic coronavirus patients can contaminate environments ―Study

SARS antibodies can block COVID-19 infection: study

COVID-19: Mojec donates relief materials, targets 20,000 households in Nigeria

ZENITH INSURANCE PROFIT RISES 16% TO N3.7BN

HIGHER RAW MATERIALS COSTS RESPONSIBLE FOR INCREASED PRICES OF GOODS — REPORT

COVID-19: 80% OF BUSINESSES ADVERSELY AFFECTED — LCCI SURVEY

EDO CRISIS: APC chieftain urges Obaseki to inaugurate 14 alienated lawmakers

DTHA raises alarm over dead fishes in Forcados, Escravos rivers

Irate youths set ablaze vehicle after killing two persons in Ondo

BAUCHI RECORDS 2 DEATHS FROM COVID-19

COVID-19: Akwa Ibom warns against re-opening of schools

ABIA RESIDENTS REACT TO 5 FRESH CASES OF COVID-19

(www.vanguardngr.com)


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