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Here are the major headlines for Thursday, August 19, 2021

Punch

  • Oyo youths protest WASSCE candidate killing, blame Amotekun
  • Ambode group, others appeal against APC ward congress
  • FEC approves N658m for sniffer dogs, education, others N21bn
  • Police fume as vigilantes detain, torture cops over hemp
  • Sexagenarian hangs self in Ondo
  • Petroleum Industry Act: States tackle FG today as FAAC meets, NBA advises governors
  • Lagos community laments as cultists raid 12 streets, vandalise 30 vehicles
  • Sanusi’s exposé on Buhari, APC, vindicates us –PDP
  • Call for self defence: ACF, Middle Belt back Masari, Ohanaeze flays gov
  • Niger bandits demand extra N20m, school sells land to raise N50m
  • Afghanistan: Don’t rely on US support to combat terrorism, Buhari told
  • Oyo youths protest WASSCE candidate killing, blame Amotekun
  • Police fume as vigilantes detain, torture cops over hemp
  • Sexagenarian hangs self in Ondo
  • One way: Residents slam Lagos over lack of signage, decry extortion
  • Robbers kill Ondo petrol marketer, steal N2m
  • Ogun driver accuses firm of abandonment after suffering stroke
  • Two die, policeman hospitalised in Rivers explosion
  • Osinbajo presides over FEC meeting
  • VAT judgment: 30 states may suffer revenue drop, say experts
  • Nigerian insurers settled N5.4bn #EndSARS claims – NIA
  • Barge operators, maritime workers move to improve waterway transport
  • MAN seeks policy consistency for industrial growth
  • NIMASA to begin removal of sea wreckage
  • Firm launches technology to track lost containers on sea
  • Sanusi’s exposé on Buhari, APC, vindicates us –PDP
  • APC releases time-table for September 4 LG congresses
  • Bauchi gov withdraws nomination of ex-commissioner
  • Oyo N50bn supplementary budget gets Assembly’s nod
  • Ebonyi APC chieftains sue caretaker committee, seek dissolution
  • Congress: Drama as APC appeal committee meets aggrieved members in Lagos
  • Gold medal-winning Nigerian team
  • Nigeria claim mixed relay gold at World U-20 championships
  • Volleyball: Nigeria U-19 team depart for Iran today
  • Venus Williams among wildcard entrants for US Open
  • Benfica edge PSV to boost Champions League hopes
  • Locatelli joins Juventus on loan from Sassuolo
  • EPL: Chelsea to unleash Lukaku against Arsenal
  • BREAKING: Nigeria win 4x400m mixed relay gold at World Athletics U-20 Championships
  • 42-year-old Nigerian Yekemi Otaru appointed Scotland varsity chancellor
  • American court jails Canada-based Nigerian Morakinyo for cyber fraud, to refund $975,863
  • Nigerian-born footballer shot dead after killing neighbour in UK —Police
  • Prince Charles appoints Nigerian, Omaghomi, as royal director
  • Oil graft: Italian court acquits Nigerian, Obi, reverses jail sentence
  • BBNaija S6: Team Love wins N1.5m in Storm task

(www.punchng.com)

The Nation

  • Buhari: $50b investment lost in 10yrs without oil sector law
  • Petroleum law open to amendment, says Lawan
  • Court turns down govt’s request to dismiss Igboho’s suit
  • Of IBB, Okupe and 2023 presidency
  • Buhari for son’s wedding in Kano on Friday
  • JUST IN: Lalong relaxes curfew in Plateau councils
  • How I’ve been coping with diabetes for 35 years, by Obasanjo
  • How PIB was passed, by Lawan
  • Gunmen attack empty bullion van in Ondo
  • Bandits kill four, kidnap six in Katsina attack
  • Facts about AFCON 2021
  • TIMELINE: Igboho spends ‘one-month’ in Benin Republic detention
  • Ex-Kwara, Kogi MAN chief dies of COVID-19
  • Police officer, two others feared dead in Rivers accident
  • We lost around $50bn due to non-passage of PIB – Buhari
  • Igboho: Court faults reports of judge’s disappearance
  • APC LG Congress holds Sept 4 2:36 pm
  • BREAKING: UNILAG resumes for physical exams
  • JUST IN: List of new Senior Advocates out soon – LPPC
  • BREAKING: Buhari approves implementation framework for Petroleum Act
  • INEC and deregistration of political parties
  • Alleged fraud: Court okays CBN’s request to freeze accounts of coys
  • Why we are at Supreme Court, by governors
  • Governors pick six holes in Petroleum Industry Act
  • CBN: Naira abusers for prosecution
  • We won’t allow another religious crisis in Plateau, says Lalong
  • Men too can be infertile
  • The test and the search
  • NLC to govt: Allow  market forces determine petrol price
  • Recovered N2.28tr loot: States ask Fed Govt to give account
  • Sylva: Deregulation coming after talks
  • Cholera leaves deaths in its trail
  • Why crisis persists in APC, by Vatsa
  • Is Nigeria sliding into one-party state?
  • 36 Govs meet on doctors’ strike, COVID vaccination, PIB, others
  • Abba Kyari’s saga: Police panel yet to submit report
  • Super Eagles face Egypt, others in AFCON 2021
  • Cristiano Ronaldo breaks silence on transfer speculations
  • Three feared killed, property razed as cultists clash in Mushin
  • Mohammed Fawehinmi for burial Aug. 27 in Ondo

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

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