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Here are the major headlines for Thursday, March 19, 2020

Punch

  • Coronavirus global death toll reaches 9,000
  • Why we can’t sell petrol at 125/litre – Marketers
  • [BREAKING] Coronavirus: Senate suspends public hearing, closes gallery
  • Lagos explosion: Residents condemn FHA boss’ takeover comment
  • Anambra orders closure of schools over Coronavirus
  • JAMB releases another 450,000 UTME results
  • 85-year-old woman jumps to death from four-storey building in Anambra
  • Coronavirus: Scammers visit homes to withdraw banknotes
  • Germany bans racist, anti-Semitic Reich Citizens’ group
  • Coronavirus: 25 million people to lose jobs, says ILO
  • Coronavirus: RCCG adjusts services after Lagos, Ogun banned gatherings
  • Prepare for the worst, WHO warns Africa as top politician dies in Burkina Faso
  • Two US lawmakers test positive for coronavirus
  • Senate appeals to PPPRA to halt sacking of 31 graduates
  • $22.7bn loan approval suspended over South-East protest –Gbajabiamila
  • Lagos explosion: Residents condemn FHA boss’ takeover comment
  • 85-year-old woman jumps to death from four-storey building in Anambra
  • I defiled four-year-old girl because we’re friends – Suspect
  • Police parade three suspected bank robbers in Cross River
  • Gunmen attack vigilante group, injure one in Rivers
  • Navy seizes 204 Cameroon-bound drums of diesel
  • Ogun community residents desert home over inspector’s death
  • Kidnappers abduct ex-Western Region director’s daughters, demand N100m
  • I thought my daughter was dead – Mother of Bethlehem’s head girl
  • Sumer slams Trabzonspor over Mikel’s sack
  • Lille could sell Osimhen for €100m – Report
  • Why I dumped Arsenal – Ajayi
  • Two US lawmakers test positive for coronavirus
  • $22.7bn loan approval suspended over South-East protest –Gbajabiamila
  • Reps to intervene in Adebutu, Kashamu’s gambling firms’ rift
  • APC is stinking, facing extinction, declares PDP
  • Wike guilty as charged over APC crisis — Uzodinma
  • PDP welcomes back Oyinlola, Obada, Arapaja, others

(www.punchng.com)

The Nation

  • LIVE UPDATES: Developing stories of COVID-19 across the world 
  • BREAKING: Appeal Court reverses sack of Senator Ifeanyi Ubah 
  • COVID-19: RCCG modifies services as Lagos, Ogun ban gatherings 
  • BREAKING: Senate closes gallery, suspends public hearing over COVID-19
  • COVID-19: Katsina suspected case tests negative
  • BREAKING: Govs pray for wisdom, protection against COVID-19
  • Niger orders closure of schools 
  • Osinbajo presides over NEC meeting
  • JAMB releases another 450,000 candidates’ results 
  • Edo assembly rumpus 
  • Lagos private schools announce closure over COVID-19 
  • Two doctors, 159 others die of Lassa fever 
  • N673m fraud: Ikuforiji’s trial adjourned till Sept 30 
  • 17 killed, 437 displaced, 170 houses affected
  • Ex-Rivers Governor Odili under probe for N100b ‘fraud’
  • Game up for suspected cybercriminals  9:02 AM
  • Four arrested as Navy intercepts Cameroon-bound diesel 
  • Gunmen attack vigilance group in Rivers
  • 32 students get N4.8m scholarship 
  • Plague justice and 2023 
  • ‘Oshiomhole’s pleasant heresies’ revisited 
  • Fed Govt bans travellers from U.S., UK, Italy, Germany, others 
  • Degree students ‘must work hard’ 
  • Suspected American virus carrier dies 
  • New electricity tariff: What implications for consumers? 
  • Bauchi APC and its unending crises
  • Oyo to announce restrictions as UK returnee is isolated 
  • Ivory Coast’s Ouattara stuns critics over decision to shun third term 
  • APC warns PDP to mind its business over Zamfara case 
  • Fed Govt to Sudan: allow stranded Nigerians to return home 
  • Biden again crushes Sanders in primary 
  • South African firms, seven others sanctioned for trading with Iran 
  • WHO backs COVID-19 drug trial as cases surpass 200,000 
  • COVID-19: CBN to inject N1tr into economy 
  • New Lagos NYSC camp to accommodate 20,000 
  • APC crisis: The enemies within 
  • No victim died in our care, says Navy Hospital
  • COVID-19: We Will Come Through This Together
  • COVID-19: Infected six-month-old isolated with mother
  • UN: COVID-19 disrupting education of 849.4m worldwide 
  • House of Reps or house of probes? 
  • Fayemi at war with his fathers 
  • Churches, Mosques, schools shut in COVID-19 lockdown
  • Libya returnee, two others held after failed robbery in Calabar

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

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