Welcome to EKOHOTBLOG summary of top Major Nigeria Newspaper headlines for today, Sunday, August 30th, 2020
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Saturday disclosed that the country has confirmed 250 new COVID-19 cases as 297 patients are discharged in the last 24 hours.
All is not well yet at Otto and Itumara in Ebute-Meta, Lagos State as two four-year-old children, Lukman Badamosi, and Rosemary Onyema, disappeared, reportedly bringing the number of missing kids in the community to nine in one year.
The federal government on Saturday gave a tentative time frame for the completion of the Transportation University in Daura by the China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) was September 2021.
Presiding Bishop, Living Faith Church Worldwide, David Oyedepo has said he would lay hands on any Coronavirus patient brought to him for prayer.
Lagos State Governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said he will meet with the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 next week, to review the 10pm to 4am curfew.
Jason Njoku, the chief executive officer of IrokoTV, one of Africa’s first mainstream online movie streaming websites, says the company will let 150 staff go as part of a resizing process.
Controversial Nigerian journalist, Kemi Olunloyo has revealed that she narrowly escaped death yesterday as a helicopter crashed in the Opebi area of Lagos state.
Another lady identified as Mary Daramola has been allegedly raped and murdered in Akinyele area of Ibadan, raising suspicion the notorious Sunday Shodipe is not the only criminal operating in the community.
Award-winning artistes Darey, Falz, Waje and Yemi Alade have been announced as coaches for the season three of talent show, The Voice Nigeria.
The Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Screening Committee has disqualified four senatorial aspirants from Bayelsa Central race over alleged irregular tax clearance, membership dues, anomalies in documentations, and other sundry issues.
Zamfara state government has warned illegal miners operating in the state despite Federal Government’s ban on mining activities, to desist or face prosecution.
The Minister of Aviation, Mr Hadi Sirika says the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu is ready for resumption of flights.
The board of Polaris Bank Limited, the Asset Management Corporation of Nigeria, and the bank’s shareholders have appointed Mr Innocent Ike, as the acting managing director/ chief executive officer of the bank effective September 1, 2020.
The Chief of the Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, says plans have been concluded for the deployment of a special mission aircraft to Benin to secure the maritime environment.
Dr Cairo Ojougboh, Executive Director, Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has said that the commission “wants the Niger Delta to look like Dubai”.
Lagos State Governor, Mr Babajide Sanwo-Olu, has said the activities of airlines operating international flights would be closely monitored to prevent the importation of corona-virus (COVID-19) cases in the state.
The Lagos state governor, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, on Sunday announced that the representative of the state government will visit the Murtala Muhammad International Airport next week to access its readiness ahead of the resumption of international flight.
A serving Assistant Inspector-General of Police in charge of the newly created Zone 14 comprising of Katsina and Kaduna State, Rabiu Yusuf, is dead.
Serial presidential aspirant, Atiku Abubakar, has been trending on Twitter for choosing to keep quiet concerning the young man who was accused of committing blasphemy against Prophet Mohammed in a song he circulated via WhatsApp in March 2020.
I use the term ‘relationship’ loosely to encompass people in a committed legalized union, those who did the traditional dowry payment/acceptance or those who have no legal backing but are in a defined union of recognized partnership.
In commemoration of the first one hundred days of the appointment of Professor (Ambassador) Ibrahim Agboola Gambari as Chief of Staff to President Muhammadu Buhari, Commander-In-Chief, Armed Forces of Nigeria, Resilience Television will on Friday August 21st 2020 devote prime time to a documentary on the President’s Chief adviser and ally.
‘You’re choking me!’ Black jogger, 33, screams as he’s forcefully arrested in San Antonio and then detained for two days in case of mistaken identity -despite victim in the case telling cops they had the wrong man.
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