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Here are the major headlines for Wednesday, April 29, 2020

Punch

  • Enugu confirms new COVID-19 case
  • Second US Navy ship hit by COVID-19 returns to port
  • How Akinjide defended the status quo (1)
  • Suspected COVID-19 patient dies in Ondo hospital
  • Brazil’s COVID-19 deaths exceed 5,000, pass China’s
  • Status of FG rice to Oyo not known –NAFDAC
  • Gunmen kill driver, kidnap friend in Ondo
  • Eight power plants idle, generation tumbles to 2,983MW
  • Liverpool open contract talks with Osimhen
  • No date yet for schools resumption – Education minister
  • Lockdown: 20 die in Lagos, Ogun crashes – FRSC
  • Court awards N5m against Atiku, Saraki over billboard photo
  • 300 stranded Nigerians facing starvation in Guangzhou — CLO
  • Umahi begs journalists, says feud not intentional
  • I stabbed my mother-in-law for asking son to divorce me –Suspect
  • FG seeks Jonathan, Diezani’s foreign accounts’ details
  • Policemen assault Ondo nurse, motorcyclist at checkpoint
  • Reps seek deportation of illegal Chinese immigrants
  • Police rescue newborn baby in Ekiti
  • Rivers kerosene explosion kills mother, two children
  • Torture: Anambra court orders police to pay lawyer N25m
  • Police arrest illegal Chinese gold miners in Zamfara
  • 18 arrested prostitutes isolated, brothel shut in Ondo
  • Controversy as NBA disowns Lagos ‘lawyer’, critic
  • 51 nabbed as Lagos community protests against lockdown
  • Fire guts NNPC station, 30 cars, buildings in Lagos
  • Delta correctional centre inmates protest, burn documents
  • Liverpool open contract talks with Osimhen
  • Arsenal will regret if Saka leaves –Report
  • I’m focused on COVID-19 fight, not second term –Ahmad
  • APC, PDP clash over Osun Amotekun boss appointment
  • We’ve raised Imo IGR to N1.2bn monthly — Uzodinma
  • Ganduje hails Buhari over Kano lockdown

(www.punchng.com)

The Nation

  • JUST IN: Mass retirement of senior NDDC staff looms
  • Oyo PDP hails Buhari for relaxing lockdown 
  • Police inspector strangled in Imo
  • Sergeant who killed policewoman remanded
  • Kaduna evacuates Almajiri boys, girls kept in same room 
  • Oyetola inaugurates task force against kidnapping, others
  • Nigeria at crossroads over COVID-19
  • Ogiemwonyi will succeed Obaseki, says Gold-Idehen 
  • FBNInsurance donates to Lagos
  • Nkrumahism and our times 
  • Firms’ N11b life cover for health workers 
  • House of Reps seek N36b special fund for states
  • Govt to probe abuse of Nigerians in China 
  • Deepening financial penetration 
  • Retirees: we’ve not been paid benefits 
  • Wapic Insurance’s new chair promises greater value creation 
  • ‘Don’t spend pension fund on COVID-19 palliatives’
  • Family hid first case from govt team, says governor 
  • Global non-bank loans rise to $12.2tr
  • Ooni, Austen-Peters tangle over Moremi
  • Chinese medics test negative, says minister
  • APGA alleges plot to implicate lawmaker 
  • NCAC to launch #Protectnaijawithfacemask campaign
  • NCDC targets two million people for COVID-19 test in three months
  • Church lifts 100 residents 
  • Onyeama, others stopped from harassing APC men
  • Senate approves Buhari’s N850b loan request 
  • How Germany-based Nigerian artist turned lockdown to creative forge
  • COVID-19 and Nigeria’s fine moment – let’s arise and build 
  • Buhari excludes Kano in revised lockdown guidelines
  • ‘Make the best of lockdown’ 
  • Organisation donates to the vulnerable in Delta
  • Poly, host community end hostilities 
  • GTBank posts N58b profit in three months
  • Notorious fact 
  • ‘Involve trado-medical practitioners in COVID-19 fight’
  • Cadbury‘s Q1 profit rises by 26% to N912.77m 
  • Stanbic IBTC grows Q1 pre-tax profit to N24.4b
  • Mayhem in Abia
  • Disparagers of Abba Kyari
  • COVID-19: Okunland launches relief response initiative 
  • Rotary Club gives palliative to 1000 persons in Abuja 
  • Values on the edge
  • Truth and fantasy about Chinese maltreatment of Nigerians 
  • Need to revive agricultural research institutes 
  • Osun sends 30 samples of traced contacts for test 
  • Delta relaxes lockdown with face mask enforcement 
  • ‘Lagos committed to reducing spread’
  • Port worker tests positive 
  • Rivers sends 150 non-indigenes to home states 
  • Cross River factory gets orders from Lagos, Kano, Benue, others for masks 
  • Akeredolu okays incentives for health workers 
  • Fayemi slashes self, deputy governor’s salary by 50% 
  • Ganduje backs Kano lockdown 
  • IMF approves $3.4billion emergency loan to Nigeria 

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

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