Newspaper Headlines

SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 03/07/2020

Punch

Nigeria’s debt profile hits N28.63tn

Foreign reserves fell by $373.23m in June – CBN

NSITF kicks as Buhari suspends MD, 11 others for fraud

COVID-19: NFF to receive $300,000 from CAF

Regular exercise ’ll boost immune system against COVID-19 – Nutritionist

National Assembly probes NPA over alleged $1bn secret account

Reps move to rescue Buratai’s critic in military detention

Law school paid cleaner N32m/year –Auditor General

Ex-scholarship boss arraigned for N127m fraud

NAFDAC disrupts anti-COVID-19 herb unveiling in Ogun

Agric minister begins 2020 wet season farming

FG distributes 19,108 bags of fertilisers in Kogi

Nigerian airlines lost $2.09bn in two months – IATA

Chinese couple lock up eight Nigerian employees for four months

Petrol price: NLC demands reversal, NECA backs govt

NUPENG gives FG two-week ultimatum over bad roads

Registration: Ohanaeze General Assembly sues CAC, demands N500bn

Passengers with cold, malaria won’t board – Aero Contractors

Investors lose N115bn as stocks reverse gains

Dangote Cement raised N250bn in debt market– FMDQ

APC caretaker panel visits Tinubu, Akande on peace mission

Ojudu, Adeyeye not welcome to PDP – Fayose

I left my uncle’s house after he raped me –Bauchi undergraduate

Masari, residents seek divine intervention against banditry

Kogi security fund boss dies at 69

Niger transfers 780 Almajirai to states of origin

(www.punchng.com)

The Nation

COVID-19 case in Nigeria rise to 27,110 with 626 new cases

Brace for rise in virus cases, minister alerts Nigerians 

NCDC blames rising cases on youths 

Minister: Nigeria has a ‘Madagascar herb’ plantation

House to probe NPA’s ‘secret accounts’  

Reps Committee frowns at airlines withholding FAAN levies 

Reps move to strip President of power to order assets forfeiture 

House urges Fed Govt to address cancer mortality rate  

Agbakoba, Umar deny membership of new party 

NAF signs MoUs with UNIBEN, AIB on aerospace tech, accident study  

Fed Govt approves LADOL Free Zone’s 25-year lease 

Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway: Julius Berger not set to return to site  

Northeast church: How we lost 8,370 to insurgency 

Aides of VIPs to be barred from airports  

NLC condemns petrol price hike

Osun Osogbo grove gets N4m development support  

193 Almajirai have tested positive in Kano 

181 discharged in Lagos, Edo, Osun  

Two killed, five abducted in Ebonyi 

Ekiti displays photo of convicted rapist 

14-year-old flees home to be with Facebook boyfriend   

BBNaija 5 contestants in quarantine ahead of July 19 kick-off 

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

Vanguard

Buhari suspends NSITF MD, Somefun, 3 Directors, 8 others

COVID-19: FG goes spiritual, partners religious leaders on Prayers, Fasting

COVID-19: 3 out of 5 deaths are elderly above 50 years — NCDC

COVID-19: FG warns against rejection, delayed testing of emergency patients

Reps pass bill to bar governors from paying state Judges, Lawmakers

Dubai Police hands over Hushpuppi to FBI in US

AMCON TAKES OVER PAN OCEAN GROUP OVER N240BN DEBT

Nigerian Army will remain apolitical, professional — Buratai

Trump takes credit as US economy adds 7.5m jobs

THAILAND TO BAN ONLINE ALCOHOL SALES TO CURB UNDERAGE DRINKING 

COVID-19: MECURE ENGAGES OVER 10,000 DOCTORS FOR ONLINE CONSULTATIONS 

Dangote Cement raises N250b via debt market in 6 months 

SANWO-OLU URGED TO AVERT POST COVID-19 FOOD CRISIS 

COVID-19: Kano Govt lifts lockdown 

COVID-19: Abia Govt approves extension of market days, opening hours

Akwa Ibom people don’t patronize our manufactured goods, governor’s Aide laments

COVID-19: OPay puts some business units on hold

(www.vanguardngr.com)

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