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Here are the major headlines for Saturday, May 16, 2020

Punch

  • Plateau PDP suspends ex-gov aspirant, seven others
  • COVID-19: 250 nurses, midwives in isolation, 85 positive – NANNM
  • Iran jails French academic six years
  • Nigeria running out of FOREX – Ex-US envoy
  • Why returning Nigerians have to pay – Minister
  • Kwara foils attempted escape from isolation centre
  • COVID-19: Nigeria’s discharged patients exceed 1,300
  • Kobe Bryant chopper crash pilot had no drugs in system – Autopsy
  • Iran’s OPEC governor dies at 68
  • 10 foods that can boost your immune system
  • Senegal reopens worship centres
  • China asks US to pay debts to UN
  • I once thought I was a failure –ID Cabasa
  • Trump fires State Dept watchdog investigating Pompeo
  • NIS intercepts 10 Nigerians heading to Cameroon
  • Pains of Nigerian graduates who earn less than corps members
  • FG gives FAAN, NAMA, others 45 days to relocate HQs to Abuja
  • Fleeing Boko Haram terrorists abandon 72 family members, says DHQ
  • Man who posted wife’s battered face on Facebook arraigned, granted N500,000 bail
  • I didn’t know how the knife I held hit him when we fought –Benue lady accused of stabbing her baby’s father to death
  • Ekiti twin girl found dead in co-tenant’s vehicle
  • Parents of Boys’ Brigade kids killed by Civil Defence official at Easter: Govt, NSCDC have failed to honour promises one year after our sons were crushed to death
  • I joined kidnapping gang to make quick money –Suspect
  • BRT users decry shortage of buses, time spent in queues
  • One killed, others injured in Rivers cult war
  • I won’t rest untill my son’s killers face justice –Father of Enugu final-year law student allegedly killed by policemen
  • 24 Akwa Ibom girls rescued from Lagos traffickers den
  • Drogba, Diouf not at my level – Eto’o
  • Edo 2020 may hold in August
  • Collins, Awoniyi, Ujah return to Bundesliga action

(www.punchng.com)

The Nation

  • UK-based Nigerian doctor, wife die 10 days apart 
  • Pondei explains suspension of NDDC workers 
  • Reus: Bundesliga players are not lab rats 
  • FG deploys troops to Katsina over banditry
  • Ekiti slashes 2020 budget by N33bn
  • ‘Beware of your vegetable oil’ 
  • EFCC hands over seized Diezani’s building for use as isolation centre 
  • I see my wife as my girlfriend –COMIC ACTOR VICTOR OSUAGWU
  • ‘My painful battles with SICKLE CELL ANAEMIA’ 
  • Bayelsa leaders endorse Dickson for Senate 
  • Ogun extends lockdown for third time 
  • Warri monarch congratulates Gambari 
  • Missing seven-year-old girl found dead in co-tenant’s vehicle 
  • Ten of the ‘happening’ Nigerian instagram comedians
  • Kaduna discharges 35 infected Almajirai after treatment 
  • 15 health workers die of COVID-19 —Body of nurses, midwives 
  • How my aunt sold my one-month-old son to child trafficking syndicate for N950,000 — 20-yr-old orphan 
  • Nigeria records 288 new cases of COVID-19, total now 5445  9:35 AM
  • Buhari celebrates Momodu at 60 
  • The mask revolution 
  • COVID-19 as wake up call to save Almajirai 
  • Lagos Assembly approves Sanwo-Olu’s request for unification of fibre infrastructure
  • Mating in Ramadan 
  • COVID-19: Governors give PTF headache 
  • Politics, diplomacy and desperation 
  • COVID-19: Ebonyi, Sokoto ease lockdown 
  • COVID-19 and our future
  • How to break free of your past relationship 
  • Must all kids look like their parents? 
  • …he has earned numerous stripes, says Tinubu 
  • Ondo Assembly to probe N4.3bn hidden in bank for 10 years
  • Terrorists abandon wives, kids as troops intensify onslaught  
  • FG blames high death rate on COVID-19 fears 
  • Okpanam killings: Igbo group allays fear of reprisal attacks in north 
  • Monarch urges govt to support traditional medicine practitioners

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

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