Newspaper Headlines

SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 01/06/2020

Punch

COVID-19: States to handle cases, NMA demands compliance from churches, mosques

Air Peace evacuates 312 Indians, hails Israel, China

Reps obtain CBN records for N40bn NDDC probe

Outrage as hoodlums rape, kill UNIBEN undergraduate in church

Police officer goes berserk, shoots sergeant dead in Lagos

Husband’s killing: Police want Maryam Sanda’s death sentence affirmed

IPPIS: FG lost N800bn paying ASUU, says Ngige

IPPIS: Ngige’s allegations baseless, we’re ready for negotiation – ASUU

N17bn contract debt for inclusion in budget

Imota rice mill 80% completed, says govt

Joshua rules out Mike Tyson fight

Economy contracted in May, says CBN report

Dangote wins World Travel Market award

Okotie opposes social distancing in churches, slams CAN

Your lopsided appointments’ll ruin Nigeria, Umar tells Buhari

Obaseki, seven APC govs meet Tinubu, plan President’s meeting

18 Edo LG chairmen oppose planned APC direct primary

Ajimobi’s aide dumps APC for PDP

Benue poll: PDP wins 23 LG seats

Ogun doctors’ strike politically motivated, irresponsible –Abiodun

Direct or indirect primary, I’ll emerge APC candidate –Akeredolu

Zamfara lawmaker, Tukur Jekada, dies at 60

LASG shortlists nine contractors for Fourth Mainland Bridge

Drunken friend crushes army battalion commander in Benue

Benue task force intercepts tanker with Almajirai, motorcyclists

Churches resume services in Ondo

Abuja discharges 11 COVID-19 patients

Okocha scored Bundesliga’s most spectacular goal – Klopp

(www.punchng.com)

The Nation

Nigeria records 307 new cases of COVID -19, total now 10162 

Next stage of response on COVID-19 up to States – FG 

CACOVID backs Niger Isolation Centre with 100 beds, kits 

Nigeria, others to benefit from $14b debt relief 

Control of NGOs: Court rejects suit against Reps

FIRS mulls charges on ATMs, WhatsApp 

FG begs ASUU to resume discussion on IPPIS, 2009 agreement, others

Policemen under probe for rape of minor  

Student arrested for ‘blackmailing’ Salawa Abeni  

Kidnappers free Nasarawa CAN chair   

NPA nets N180b from dredging, equipment management  

Nigerian investors beat global anxiety with N2.07tr gains in two months 

Fed Govt’s N150b Sukuk is high-grade investment, say stockbrokers

Access Bank to customers: beware of scams 

Health sector a money spinner, says Polaris Bank chief 

Axxela raises N12.4b in oversubscribed bond  

Oshiomhole commiserates with Ediagbonya’s family

COVID-19: Fayemi eases lockdown, orders civil servants to resume work

Ikpeazu, deputy, EXCO members to undergo test 

Emmanuel inaugurates 300-bed isolation centre 

Angry youths burn Ebonyi commissioner’s house, banish husband

A’Ibom reopens churches next Sunday

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

Vanguard

COVID-19 TREATMENT: We are not near finding an answer — Ehanire, Health Minister

Skewed appointments: Nigeria will be destroyed if you continue like this, Umar counsels Buhari

India celebrates first direct flight from Nigeria

19-year-old graduate arrested over Salawa Abeni’s nude pictures

IMOTA RICE MILL BEGINS OPERATIONS YEAR-END 

Nigerian doctors’ welfare will be my priority — Professor Ujah 

COVID-19: Corporates begin execution of Business Continuity models

Manufacturing sector contracts as index reverses 37-month stability

Obaseki orders Police investigation into death of Miss Omozuwa 

Ayade hands over 52 housing units to Bakassi IDPs, widows

Okowa hails Prof. Innocent Ujah on his election as NMA President

Dugbe Market inferno: Makinde fulfils promise, doles out cash palliative to property owner, victims

Olubadan cancels masquerades dance over COVID-19 pandemic

Lagos govt discharges 21 COVID-19 patients

POLICE ARREST FIVE AFTER ASSAULT ON OFFICERS AS THOUSANDS OF BLACK LIVES MATTER ACTIVISTS PROTEST IN LONDON

(www.vanguardngr.com)

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