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Here are the major headlines for Friday, May 8, 2020

The Nation

  • AU, HP partner on distance learning 
  • Addressing impact of COVID-19 on fish 
  • Azeezat: we are heading towards disaster for easing lockdown 
  • BBNaija winner Mercy and Ike hint at marriage in new show
  • Tiwa Savage joins Tamar Braxton on YouTube show
  • Niniola receives Grammy nod as composer and nominee
  • Teni wins African Artiste of the year 
  • It’s hard making a hit song, says Davido’s producer
  • Wale Tinubu’s quiet donation
  • Auto magnate Bayo Adesola prepares for mum’s burial 
  • Omoregie Ogbeide-Ihama’s most cherished ambition
  • Sam and Nike Adeyemi celebrate 27th wedding anniversary
  • Osuntokun: 30 years after 
  • How to reduce cost of governance 
  • Olanipekun’s exploits excite Ekiti community 
  • Rising hope for increased wheat production 
  • BREAKING: Nigeria records 381 new coronavirus cases 
  • COVID-19: Israel donates 2000 protective masks to Nigeria
  • Curfew: Police arrest 134 violators
  • Judge who annulled June 12 poll dies 
  • Keep my son in prison, man begs Osun police   
  • Patients flee from isolation centres in Oyo, Niger, Bauchi 
  • Police nab 23 kidnap suspects for allegedly terrorising three Adamawa LGAs 
  • FRSC turns back 437 vehicles from Lagos, Ogun boundaries 
  • US hints of fresh $319m Abacha loot in UK, France 
  • Gully erosion threatens 4,000 shops in Anambra 
  • 50 kidnapped, 300 injured in Anambra communal clash 
  • Court stops FG’s move to extradite Sen Kashamu 
  • All Barcelona players test negative for coronavirus 

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

Punch

  • Eight almajirai Kano-returnees test positive in Gombe
  • One killed, 300 injured, curfew declared over communal clash
  • C’River intercepts five truck-load of almajirai at Benue border
  • Again, PDP accuses APC of cover-up in Abacha loot spending
  • FRSC arrests 63 motorists for violating social distancing order
  • Again, court stops FG from extraditing Kashamu to US
  • Edo clears 111 suspected cases, 380 contacts
  • 6.3 million TB cases likely by 2025 over lockdowns – Report
  • Kano ex-commissioner sacked for celebrating Kyari’s death tests positive
  • Nigerians move to look inward amid global effort to contain COVID-19
  • Justice Saleh who annulled June 12 dies at 81
  • No grudge against Adagunodo – Osun PDP chair
  • Ogun vows to prosecute face mask order violators
  • Benue shuts mortuaries, buries indigene brought from Kano
  • Another ex-BUK professor dies
  • Family accuses Enugu LG chairman of ordering undergraduate’s killing
  • Lockdown stalls prosecution of suspected Rivers students’ killers
  • Slain footballer’s family demands fresh probe, justice
  • Clarence Peters, others granted bail over dancer’s death
  • Suspected herdsmen kill two vigilantes in Delta
  • Jealous Nasarawa pregnant woman kills husband
  • Abducted FRCN presenter regains freedom in Abia
  • Man arraigned for pouring hot water on wife
  • NCDC bill violates UNESCO Declaration — Investigation
  • Prioritise workers’ safety, CMD urges employers
  • CDC boss laments COVID-19 low testing rate in Africa
  • NFF to pay Rashidi Yekini, Okwaraji’s mothers N30,000 monthly
  • Heartland, IfeanyiUbah, Sunshine owe players three months salaries
  • Athletes grumble over exclusion from ministry’s N50,000 palliative

(www.punchng.com)

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