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Here are the major headlines for Thursday, April 9, 2020

Punch

  • Global coronavirus deaths top 86,000
  • Lagos coronavirus cases now 135
  • Coronavirus: Military deploys 80 doctors in 21 hospitals, distributes oxygen
  • COVID-19: Russia’s health workers get $1,000 additional monthly bonus
  • Coronavirus: Egypt extends nationwide curfew by 15 days
  • Sifax supports COVID-19 fight with N130m
  • Discos offer customers two-month free electricity
  • Fire guts Accountant General unit’s office, FG orders probe
  • FG slashes budget, sends to National Assembly for review
  • $320m Abacha loot: Nigeria opposes US senator’s moves against return
  • EFCC arraigns bankers over alleged school feeding fraud
  • Telecom operators not laying 5G cables, says NCC
  • B’Haram targets army location, scores killed
  • We’ve secured funding for refineries revamp – NNPC
  • We’ve not postponed SSCE, basic education exams –NECO
  • COVID-19: ASUU donates sanitisers to Edo, Ekiti
  • Fix refineries before petrol subsidy removal – PENGASSAN, NUPENG
  • Stock market extends gain by N77bn
  • Rivers no-flight order: 10 Caverton Helicopters’ passengers remanded
  • Airline operators, pilots threaten to boycott flights to Rivers
  • Naira rain as Matawalle visits patients
  • Edo traces 286 contacts, laments false passengers’ details
  • Oyo to explore local solutions in combating COVID-19
  • Protest in Osun over failed food promise
  • Osun food relief committee shops for N1bn
  • Niger quarantines 27 contacts of fleeing suspect
  • Kidnappers release Bauchi gov’s brother after 13 days
  • Sokoto orders prosecution of eight lockdown offenders
  • Soldiers chase errant Abuja residents with rod
  • Kaduna threatens 14-day quarantine for travellers into state
  • Men arrested for possession of used female pants
  • Cultists shoot OPC member dead in Ogun, spare pregnant wife
  • Benue men burn Ekiti chief alive inside bush

(www.punchng.com)

The Nation

  • Nigeria records 22 new COVID-19 cases, total now 276
  • COVID-19: Chinese doctors sent on 14 days isolation
  • 67 returnees from Ivory Coast quarantined in Badagry
  • COVID-19: Anxiety in Warri as Delta records first case
  • Iran: 600 people die from drinking alcohol to cure Coronavirus
  • Court sends Naira Marley, PDP chief to 14-day isolation
  • NDIC contributes N1b to COVID-19 relief fund
  • NDDC DG Pondei defends N1b donation
  • We approved flight by Caverton helicopters into Port Harcourt – FG
  • Private hospitals must get certification to treat COVID-19 – FG
  • Lawan urges fairness in stimulus package distribution
  • Reps donate N5m to Osun COVID-19 fund 
  • NNPC to stop running refineries, says Kyari 
  • Army takes delivery of $152m armoured tanks
  • Expose pupils to tech, demystify STEM, says minister
  • Fed Govt, Rivers locked in showdown over pilots
  • COVID-19: Re-open courts, Falana tells CJN 
  • Man, 58, arrested over sodomy for rituals 
  • APC UK mourns death of Publicity Secretary, Philip Ilenbarenemen
  • Akeredolu: owner of explosives will pay for damaged properties
  • Lagos: Our relief materials weren’t looted from warehouse 
  • Edo introduces digital homeschooling resources
  • COVID-19: Anambra launches radio/TV lessons 
  • Gunmen abduct medical doctor in Ekiti
  • COVID-19: Ondo grants permission for church Easter service

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

Vanguard

  • COVID-19: Air Peace delivers 2nd batch of medical supplies, personnel from China
  • Nigerian pilots demand immediate release of colleagues by Rivers govt
  • COVID-19: Again, EFCC cautions Nigerians against fake donations, cures
  • COVID- 19: Lagos partners Naija FM, South Saharan for students’ audio lessons
  • COVID-19: WAEC provides online resources for 2020 candidates
  • FG to shut down oil refineries for upgrade — NNPC GMD
  • Tin-Can Customs rakes in N30.7bn in March
  • NUPENG seeks justice over killing of Abia petrol station worker
  • PDP calls for investigation into Treasury House fire
  • NGO gives laptop, cash prizes to best science students in Osun
  • Gov. Masari urges NCDC to release Covid-19 tests for 35 on quarantine
  • Covid-19: Wike evicts Carveton Helicopters from Rivers over unsafe operations
  • Covid-19: Imam in Kaduna loses position for complying with social distancing order
  • COVID-19: Taraba relaxes lockdown order
  • COVID-19 Restriction order: Police arrest 21 defaulters in Sokoto
  • Land Dispute: Abuja council boss laments killing of natives by soldiers
  • Qatar denies bribery allegations on 2022 world cup
  • PREMIER LEAGUE TO END SEASON DUE TO CORONAVIRUS UNCERTAINTY
  • Bishop Sam Zuga heals Policewoman with Issue of blood
  • How ‘Naira Marley’ fans stormed court in support of singer, as Lagos drops case

(www.vanguardngr.com)

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