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Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines For Today, Monday, October 5th, 2020
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1. Nigeria Records 58 New Cases Of Coronavirus
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has recorded 58 new cases of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) infections in the country.
2. 2023: Oyedepo Reveals What Will Happen When He Becomes Nigeria’s President
Presiding Bishop, Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo on Sunday said he would consider it a demotion if invited to become Nigeria’s president.
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3. We Can’t Do Free COVID-19 Test For International Travellers – FG
The federal government says it does not have the capacity and wherewithal to carry out free COVID-19 tests for passengers arriving from foreign countries.
4. Decomposing Body Of University Lecturer Found With Wounds In Nassarawa
The decomposed body of a senior administrative staff of the Federal University of Lafia (FULafia) in Nasarawa State, Mrs. Angelina Tyem, was discovered in her apartment in Lafia in the early hours of Sunday, October 4, four days after she reportedly disappeared.
5. OAP, Harri Obi Accuses Ex-BBnaija Housemates Of Sleeping Around, Begging For Petty Jobs To Maintain Lifestyle
A Media personality, Harri Obi has revealed that the ex BBNaija housemates now maintain their lifestyle by begging for N100k jobs and sleeping around for money.
6. Soldiers Beat Policemen For Harassing Young Man In Ikorodu Garage
The officers ran out of luck yesterday with Army Officers after they couldn’t give a reasonable account of what the young man had done to warrant the harassment.
7. Mother Allegedly Kills Her Children Because Husband Married Second Wife
The Kano State Police Command on Saturday said it has launched a manhunt for a woman whose two kids were found dead in a pool of their own blood.
8. Alleged SARS Officers Break Into Ladies Apartment, Made Away With Hair
From the videos recorded by one of the ladies, the officers were seen shouting at the girls to keep quiet after they confronted them for searching their wardrobe.
9. COVID-19: Aké Festival Goes virtual with ‘African Time’
Organizers of the annual Aké Arts and Book Festival say the 2020 edition of the literary fiesta with the theme ‘Africa Time’ will be held virtually because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
10. Police To Train 3,850 Constables In Zamfara
The Police in Zamfara, says it has concluded arrangements for the training of some 3,850 Special Constables in the state.
11. PDP Administrations Failed Nigerians -APC
The All Progressives Congress (APC) has insisted that having failed Nigerians previously, the opposition party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), lacked the moral right to criticize the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration.
12. SARS Officer Gave Me His Number To Keep In Touch After Extorting 50k From Me- Lagos Man Recounts
A Twitter user identified as Akinbosola has narrated how a SARS operative in Lagos state gave him his number to keep in touch after wrongly arresting him and extorting 50k him.
13. Ondo: Don’t Succumb To Pressure From Akeredolu, PDP Urges Buhari
The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) National Campaign Council for Ondo Governorship Election has urged President Muhammadu Buhari not to cave in to plot by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its candidate, Rotimi Akeredolu to use the federal might of state apparatus to rig the next Saturday’s Ondo governorship poll, Daily Times gathered.
14. Lagos Assembly Yet To Have Spokesman Months After Braimoh’s Demise
Almost three months after demise of spokesperson of Lagos Assembly, Hon. Tunde Braimoh, the Assembly is yet to have an official spokesperson.
15. Craving A New Nigeria
In my previous article, ahead of Nigeria’s 60th Independence Day celebrations, I tried to examine the root of Nigeria’s divisive politicking. In what many saw as a sacrilegious criticism of our venerated “founding fathers”, I argued that their politics was founded on ethnic and regional sentiments and quite destructive.
16. Osinbajo Concerned, Angry Over Activities Of FSARS
Vice President Yemi Osinbajo says he is concerned and angry that young men and women who are arrested, are in some cases, maimed or killed by men of the Nigeria Police Force.
17. Press Releases Without Action – Ebuka Obi-Uchendu Reacts As IGP Bans SARS
Popular media personality, Ebuka Obi-Uchendu has reacted to the ban of the operatives of the Federal Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS by the police hierarchy.
18. Japanese Fashion Designer Kenzo Takada Dies From Covid-19
Japanese fashion designer Kenzo Takada, better known as Kenzo, who created his label in Paris in the 1970s, died on Sunday, the brand that still carries his name said.
19. New York City To Close Schools, Businesses In Areas Hit By Covid-19
Non-essential businesses and public and private schools in nine areas in New York are to be closed as authorities try to curb a rise in coronavirus infections, Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on Sunday.
20. IPOB Begs Israel, UN For Biafra Actualisation, Knocks President Buhari For Persecuting Members
In a statement sent to SaharaReporters on Saturday, they complained that the Department of State Services (DSS) had arrested people for listening to Radio Biafra, an online radio station created by the IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu.
21. Many Feared Dead In Akwa-Ibom Cult Clash
Suspected cultists have reportedly killed one person and injured a police inspector during a rival cult clash in the Ikot Inen community in OrukAnam local government area of Akwa Ibom state.
22. EndSars: Runtown To Lead Protests On October 8
Nigerian singer Runtown has volunteered to lead #Endsars protest against police brutality and harassment on October 8.
23. IGP Drags PSC To Supreme Court Over Recruitment Of 10,000 Constables
Inspector-general of police, Mohammed Adamu, has approached the supreme Court for reversal of judgement of the court of appeal which canceled the recruitment of 10,000 constables carried out by him and the Nigeria police force (NPF) in 2019.
24. Opinion: “The Strong Breed” (Updated) By Bashorun J.K. Randle
I thank you most sincerely for inviting me to join you in celebrating the 60th Anniversary of the granting of Independence to our beloved nation by the British on 1st October 1960. It rained heavily on that day in Lagos (and most other parts of Nigeria) and it was interpreted as a good omen.
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