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Here are the major headlines for Thursday, July 8, 2021

The Nation

  • Protest in Ibadan over security raid on Igboho’s home 
  • Firm to reduce cost of test kits 
  • Sokoto records zero positive cases in 123 days 
  • Vaccine: WHO auditing NAFDAC  5:15 AM
  • Haiti president assassinated in Port-au-Prince 
  • APC summons Lai Mohammed over parallel secretariat in Kwara 
  • Akpabio: forensic auditors uncover 12,128 abandoned NDDC projects 
  • Court clears Adeosun of NYSC violation 
  • Fed lawmakers raise extra budget to N983b
  • We’re already sending criminals to God, says Gen. Yahaya after decoration 
  • Zulum, Col. Umar: Military lacks manpower, equipment 
  • 950 pupils abducted from schools in six months, says UNICEF
  • Power shift: PDP Caucus backs Southern governors 
  • Senate okays Buhari’s $6.1b external loan request 
  • Ghana seeks review of Nigeria’s import prohibition list
  • Tackling drug abuse among students
  • UNIPORT alumni lose national president 
  • Ganduje donates buses to journalists, visually-impaired
  • The Cost of Hunger in Northeast Nigeria 
  • Niger votes N1.2b for COVID-19 Action Recovery Stimulus
  • How women farmers resolve to self-help 
  • Nasarawa council polls to hold October 6 
  • Anyim: Nigeria yet to learn from civil war experience 
  • Senate upgrades Maritime Academy to varsity
  • Imo APC crisis: Okorocha demands fresh membership registration 
  • Normal policing back in Southeast soon, says DCP 
  • Anambra 2021: ‘Labour Party to provide needed governance’ 
  • Police smash robbery syndicate in Bayelsa, arrest four 
  • Tambuwal signs judiciary, legislature autonomy bills into law
  • Katsina varsity set to run part-time programmes
  • ‘Many states understudy Plateau’s template on autonomy’
  • Fed Govt urges UN to redeem $100b pledge 
  • 774,000 jobs participants to undergo SMEs training
  • FIRS collects N650b in June  2
  • FEC okays N33.5b for NIMASA’s new head office, erosion
  • Another PDP lawmaker defects to APC 
  • My Bill not criminalising protest but mob action, says Rep
  • Sylva’s diagnosis
  • Avoidable deaths 
  • Any future for Nigerian youths? 
  • Our founding fathers and current state of affairs of our country 
  • In the face of tyranny 
  • Kwara APC to sanction minister over outburst against governor 
  • Malami’s diversionary sting operations
  • Osun 2022: A choice will have to be made

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

Punch

  • Robbers kill two Lagos Okada riders, steal motorcycles
  • NYSC certificate: I’ll take steps to redeem my reputation, says Adeosun
  • El-Rufai and the cows in human skin
  • INEC maintains dead govs, ministers, others on voter register
  • Buhari ministers, Twitter yet to begin talks on ban
  • Lagos, Abia, Zamfara, 12 other states’ debts jump to N1.68tn
  • Fight banditry, insurgency, not Kanu, Umar tells FG
  • National Assembly ignores South govs, others, defends controversial PIB provisions
  • UNILORIN student’s murder: Judge orders lawyer’s arrest for attacking court
  • Baptist school students’ abductors run out of food, NBC opposes ransom
  • Available power generation capacity plunges by 3,000MW – Gencos
  • Trader in court for bathing salesgirl with hot water
  • UNILORIN student’s murder: Judge orders lawyer’s arrest for attacking court
  • Court jails 12 students, two ex-govt officials
  • Court jails widow, pleading for forgiveness, for killing ailing husband
  • Edo PDP chieftain kidnapped, hoodlums demand N20m ransom
  • Workers in shock as DG, orderly killed in Enugu
  • Estate agent arraigned for N15m alleged fraud
  • Power Transmission Substation
  • Available power generation capacity plunges by 3,000MW – Gencos
  • Lagos, Abia, Zamfara, 12 other states’ debts jump to N1.68tn
  • Reps jerk up supplementary budget by N86bn, suspend loan request
  • Govt crackdown wipes $831bn off Chinese tech stocks
  • Total Nigeria projects cash flow of N19.17bn in Q3
  • Visa records over $1bn crypto spending in six months
  • NGX Group engages analysts ahead of planned listing
  • Lai Mohammed not speaking APC members’ mind – Kwara senators
  • LASIEC shouldn’t have access to INEC voter register –Resident
  • PDP senators, Reps back southern govs, call electoral act amendment subversion
  • PDP leaders hold closed-door meeting with Ugwuanyi over serial defection
  • Oni calls for peace among Ekiti PDP members
  • Ekiti APC denies shutting out Tinubu’s loyalists
  • Nasarawa votes N669.7m for LG poll, lifts campaign ban
  • Sule, ex-govs, others in National Assembly as Nasarawa Rep defects to APC
  • How World Cup heartache helped England to reach Euro 2020 final – Kane
  • Euro 2020: Denmark captain Kjaer sorry as ‘fantastic adventure’ ends
  • Fasuba lauds new African sprints king Simbine
  • Anyanacho handed tough Olympic foe, battles No.4 seed
  • Family of drowned Belarus-based footballer kicks against cremation
  • Euro 2020: England survive Denmark scare to reach first major final in 55 years
  • England, Denmark clash enters extra time in Euro 2020 semi-final
  • ‘My backbone is gone’, Davido pens emotional tribute to Obama DMW
  • Nigerians react to GoFundMe account for Baba Ijesha
  • Bollywood actor Dilip Kumar dies at 98
  • Baba Ijesha: Friends open GoFundMe account to cover actor’s legal expenses
  • My girl has to buy a ring, propose to me on both knees — Wizkid
  • Nigerian Idol: Don’t borrow money to buy votes, Jemiriye advises contestants

(www.punchng.com)

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