SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 05/11/2020
Punch
2021 proposed N6tn loans: PDP, APC clash over FG’s fresh plans, MAN demands caution
ICC conducting preliminary probe into #EndSARS killings –Prosecutor
FG, ASUU talks deadlocked again, parties clash on N30bn allowance
Budget: Reps knock Lai Mohammed for late documents submission
Design new revenue sharing formula, Reps tell RMAFC
INEC tackling 1,700 suits over 2019 elections – Yakubu
DSS shuts school, sacks 140 teachers over request for better welfare
Damaged facilities: S’West ministers ask FG to assist Lagos
DPR warns against illegal refilling of gas cylinders
Oyigbo: MASSOB alleges genocide, Rivers says 50 AK-47 rifles stolen
CNG knocks northern govs for demanding social media law
Chevron Nigeria gets new chairman/MD
APC candidate disqualified from Bayelsa senatorial bye-election for forgery
#EndSARS: Sanwo-Olu sets up trust fund to rebuild destroyed property
Running three varsities draining our resources – Akeredolu
Masari cancels talks with bandits, commanders return 10 AK-47 riffles
Ekiti WASSCE results not withheld over debt but computation – Govt
Ekiti loses N230m to LG ghost workers annually – Panel
Benue declares Fridays work-free day for crop harvest
Doctors begin strike over kidnapped colleague in Cross River
Kano budgets N4bn for 50,000 boarding house students’ feeding
Assembly approves N243.5m for Kwara COVID-19 spending
Rivers transport workers lament unpaid salaries, demand park reopening
US election: Tension in Detroit as Trump supporters want counting suspended
US election: Biden supporters protest in New York
Trump considers legal battle as Biden leads in US presidential election
Grieving mother cries for justice as police shoot journalist dead
(www.punchng.com)
The Nation
Mass metering will end estimated billing, says Buhari
Magu’s lawyer raises nine posers for Salami panel
Bayelsa by-election: Court disqualifies APC candidate Ebebi
IGP to policemen: don’t leave public space for criminals
FEC okays N87.538b road projects in two states, FCT
NHRC independent probe panel gets 150 petitions, says chair
Minister, airline operators bicker over ‘hostile operating environment’
2021 Budget: NERC proposes N2b for furniture, others
NCAA to sanction airlines over N22b debts
RMAFC begins review of officeholders’ pay
Dangote refinery 80% ready, says official
FirstMobile wins Best Mobile Bank App award
Ikeja Hotel loses N1.4b in Q3
Afreximbank, others launch $1.5b fund to support African economies
Wike Cup draws hold today in Port Harcourt
Obiano welcomes security beef-up in Anambra
Obaseki to hold low-key inauguration
Return to work, Ugwuanyi begs policemen
Imo to restore IMSUTH’s accreditation
Abubakar presents N228b appropriation bill
Kaduna lifts curfew in 23 councils
Katsina resettles IDPs, shuts camps
Alumnus donates equipment to MAPOLY Radio
(www.thenationonlineng.net)
Vanguard
2021 Budget: Drama as NERC chair, accountant fail to produce evidence of N2bn office renovation contract sum
FG to sell Afam Power Plant at N105bn today
EndSARS: World court x-rays crimes against protesters
Voter registration takes off Q1 2021 — Yakubu, INEC chair
INEC to deploy electronic voting machines for 2021 Anambra guber
Re-establishment of national shipping fleet imminent, says NIMASA DG
10,000bpd production threatened over explosion at OML 40
RESTRUCTURING: Agbakoba seeks devolved power for states, reserved power for FG
PDP rejects attempt to regulate social media
Banks’ borrowings from CBN crashes by 93%
Stanbic IBTC extends university scholarship application deadline
Choice Group offers 35% ROI on Gree, Lontor franchise stores
Four schools attacked in Cameroon, teachers kidnapped ― Govt
Fallout of EndSARS protest: Women, mothers mostly victims of mass arrest in Lagos state
Canada reports rare strain of swine flu found in ‘a human’
(www.vanguardngr.com)
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