Encomium
Punch
- COVID-19: Continue to stay at home, observe precautions, Buhari advises Nigerians
- Easter: Global coronavirus deaths top 100,000
- 10 dead as Nigeria’s coronavirus cases rise to 318
- 37-year-old new mum dies of coronavirus at LASUTH
- Coronavirus: Lagos discharges 11-year-old boy, three other patients
- Chinese doctors’ flight: How three airline crew members ‘disappeared’ from Lagos quarantine centre
- Mali will hold April 19 election despite COVID-19, says president
- 93-year-old recovers from coronavirus in Turkey
- Real Sociedad cut player salaries by 20 percent
- Villagers protest burial of COVID-19 victim in Egypt
- COVID-19: Boris Johnson continues recovery as UK death toll nears 10,000
- COVID-19: Practitioners seek NAFDAC’s analysis of proposed herbal drugs
- 9mobile, UK firm offer Nigerians free online COVID-19 screening
- Pipeline shutdown: FG, oil firms lose N24bn in eight days
- B’Haram: MNJTF under threat as Chad army hints at withdrawal
- FG, states, LGs record N413.3bn allocation shortfall
- Caverton flew in 220 passengers without COVID-19 screening –Rivers
- COVID-19: Niger imposes 24-hour curfew
- Lockdown: Police arrest inspector filmed collecting N40,000 bribe
- Police raid Rivers kidnappers’ den, kill one, recover arms
- BPE provides foodstuffs to 1,200 FCT households
- Subsidy removal unsustainable without local production, says TUC
- Northern Christian elders want Buhari to rescue Leah Sharibu
- Easter: Pray against COVID-19, Abiodun, el-Rufai, other govs beg Christians
- Gombe slams NCDC, NEDC for donating substandard equipment
- Akeredolu has marginalised Ijaw people unlike previous govts –Torhukerhijo, state Assembly member
- Churches must help the needy during lockdown –C&S leader
- COVID-19: Osemawe distributes foodstuffs, cash to aged Ondo indigenes
- COVID-19: Dufil donates food items to states
- COVID-19: Doyin Investments supports Lagos
- Covid-19: UN peace ambassador doles out N1m palliatives in Bayelsa
- Plateau nurses get N1,000 each as monthly hazard allowance –Dabit, state nurses’ association chair
- Lockdown nightmare: How 200 armed gangsters invaded, robbed Ogun, Lagos communities
(www.punchng.com)
The Nation
- Buhari: Lockdown will last as long as necessary
- Coronavirus vaccine may be ready by September, says Oxford scientist
- Former Ambassador tests positive for COVID-19 In Kano
- Lagos discharges another seven patients
- Osun discharges ten returnee patients
- UN donates ambulances to Lagos state, restates solidarity with FG
- S’ Korea to use electronic wristbands on violators of self-isolation rules – PM
- NASS may reconvene soon over budget cut, others
- Despite strike action we support fight against COVID-19 – ASUU
- Experts to FG: Adopt policies to save naira
- MOSES SIMON: I’m back and better with Nantes
- Wike makes U-turn, cancels permission for Easter celebration
- I’m pained for not celebrating Easter Church service, says Uzodimma
- Bello locks down Niger over COVID-19
- COVID-19: Ondo cancels Easter church services
- COVID-19: Kaduna may witness community transmission- Commissioner
- Lockdown: Mobile courts convict 176 defaulters in Delta
- Katsina rescue 19 out of 20 kidnapped victims
- We won’t negotiate with criminals – Kaduna
- One feared killed as robbers raid Lagos, Ogun neighbourhoods
(www.thenationonlineng.net)
Vanguard
- We won’t handover Boko Haram weapons to Nigeria, unless… – Chad President
- WHO investigates recovered COVID-19 patients testing positive again
- Saudi king approves extension of curfew until further notice
- Uwais deliberately withholding information on financial activities of NSIPs — REPS
- We’re yet to begin recruitment of 774,000 workers ― Keyamo
- $6.9BN LOAN: Stop profiteering, looting with Covid-19, PDP tells FG
- Covid-19: Total boosts Army, Rivers Govt capacity with containment resources
- COVID-19: PETAN donates items to Bayelsa, Rivers, Delta States
- Carveton pilots: You endanger lives with reckless media falsehood, Rivers Govt tells FG
- Gov Makinde calls for prayers, sacrifice at Easter
- COVID 19 Lockdown: Abiodun distributes relief materials to people in Ogun Central
- Natasha Akpoti donates Kogi’s first ventilators to fight COVID-19
- Kaduna Commissioner exposes man having sex with mother, child
- Lockdown: Man, 30 attempts suicide, jumps from Onitsha flyover
- Police arrest suspect for allegedly poisoning 143 bags of garden eggs in Enugu market
- Rival groups in Ajah, Lagos set community on fire over land dispute
- Kaduna reads riot act to bandits, anarchists, other criminals
- Vanguard poll: 33 per cent Nigerians yet to believe coronavirus is real
(www.vanguardngr.com)
