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Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines For Today, Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

Welcome to EKOHOTBLOG summary of top Major Nigeria Newspaper headlines for today, Tuesday, January 19th, 2021

1. COVID-19: NCDC Reports 14 Additional Deaths, 1,617 New Infections

The latest figures by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) has shown that Nigeria has recorded a total of 112,004 COVID-19 cases.

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2. One In Every Five COVID-19 Tests Conducted Last Week Returned Positive – PTF

Chairman of the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19, Boss Mustapha on Monday stated that one in every five persons tested in Nigeria within the past week kí were positive.

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3. COVID-19: FG Mulls Another Lockdown, Says Nigeria In ‘Difficult Situation’

The federal government on Monday said the country could be locked down again if the current COVID-19 infection trend continues.

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4. NCDC Calls For Private Laboratories’ Support On COVID-19 Testing

The NCDC Director-General, Dr Chikwe Ihekweazu, made the call at the Presidential Tasks Force (PTF) on COVID-19 national briefing in Abuja.

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5. Resumption: Gov. Lalong Assures Students Of Safety

Lalong, who gave the assurance on Monday in Bokkos during inspection of ongoing 15 projects in the school, also promised improved infrastructure during resumption.

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6. COVID-19 Vaccine Is Meant To Kill People – Yahaya Bello

Yahaya Bello, governor of Kogi state, has yet again belittled the severity and malignance of the COVID-19 infection.

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7. NDLEA: Marwa Reads Riot Act To Drug Peddlers As He Assumes Office

Mohammed Buba Marwa, a former military governor of Lagos state, has bemoaned the scourge of drug abuse in the nation.

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8. Nothing In Bishop Kukah’s Christmas Message Denigrates Islam – Soyinka

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, on Monday, said that after personally studying the transcript of a Christmas message by the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Bishop Matthew Kukah, he has found nothing in it that belittles Islam.

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9. Gov. Zulum Lauds Military’s Success In Repelling Insurgents Attack In Marte

The troops on Saturday laid ambush against the insurgents when they attempted to attack troops’ location at the outskirts of Marte on Saturday, killing dozens of them in seven gun trucks.

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10. ‘Mama Boko Haram’ On Fresh N41.7m Fraud Charges – EFCC

Mama Boko Haram was Monday arraigned before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court sitting in Maiduguri Eko hot blog gathered, on a fresh three count charges involving criminal conspiracy and obtaining the sum of N41, 777,750.00 (Forty-One Million Seven Hundred and Seventy-Seven thousand seven hundred and fifty naira) by false pretence.

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11. Lagos To Auction 88 Vehicles Seized From Traffic Offenders

The Lagos State Environmental and Special Offences Unit (Taskforce) has secured a Court Order authorising it to publicly auction 88 vehicles impounded by the Agency for contravening the One-Way Traffic Law and forfeited to the Government by an order of a Lagos State Mobile Court.

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12. Leading Real Estate Firm To Build 50 Bungalows In Epe

Leading real estate firm in Lagos, Photizo Properties Limited, says it has concluded plans to begin the construction of 50 units of two-bedroom fully-detached bungalows in ancient town of Epe.

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13. How Parcel Bomb Killed Dele Giwa, ‘The Flaming Journalist Who Gave Tyrants Nightmares’

Giwa was reportedly killed after he received a parcel bomb which detonated at his residence, then located at No. 25  Talabi street, Ikeja, Lagos state.

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14. Igbos ‘Scattered Like Sheep Without A Herder’ Since Ojukwu’s Death – COSEYL

According to the group, Igbos, in the absence of the ex-Biafra leader, have been ‘scattered like sheep without a herder’ since his passing, Eko hot blog gathered.

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15. Shariah Commission Arrest Man Who Married His Dead Girlfriend With N2,000 Bride Price

A man went ahead and married his girlfriend who died in Bauchi state.

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16. Court Sentences Police Boss To Life Imprisonment Over Stolen Vehicle

A High Court in Ekiti state has sentenced Okubo Aboye, an assistant commissioner of police, to life imprisonment for purchasing a vehicle stolen by kidnappers.

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17. BREAKING: Police Gunned Down Two Suspected Kidnappers In Jos

The Police Intelligence Response Team on Sunday gunned down two suspected armed robbers and kidnappers in Plateau State.

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18. Plateau Lost Another Illustrious Son, 5 Deaths In 7 days From Jos

Former Rector, Plateau State Polytechnic, Engr. Sam Gyang Audu has been reported dead.

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19. Martin Luther King Jr. Day: UN Seeks More Investments In Social Justice

“Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of equality and social justice for all remains an inspiration,” UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said in a tweet.

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20. Live Updates: Washington Braces For Biden’s Inauguration And Trump’s Impeachment Trial

Vice President-elect Kamala Harris resigned her Senate seat.

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21. The Significance Of Ogun #Endsars Judicial Panel Of Inquiry

As an act to empower the Governor to constitute Tribunal of Inquiry and other matters ancillary thereto and pursuant to the powers conferred on the Executive Governor of Ogun State, Prince Dapo Abiodun, by the Tribunals of Inquiry Law, Laws of Nigeria and Ogun, 1990,(“the Law”) the Governor on 17, October 2020 set up a panel known as the Judicial Panel of Inquiry and Restitution for Victims of Special Anti-Robbery Squad Related Abuses.

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22. Opinion: Police State/State Police [And The State Of The Police]

The United Nations has been overwhelmed with complaints that Nigeria is fast becoming a police state which is somehow incongruous with the self-evident and glaring insecurity all over our beloved nation.

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23. Opinion: The Maddening, Disheartening, and Prevalent Rape Cases in Nigeria

It’s still a thing of bewilderment whenever I hear of babies, girls, and women been subjected to the cruelty of rape by those who are meant to protect them, people in positions of trust and influence in their lives.

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24. How My Family Contracted COVID-19 -Owen Gee

Multi-award-winning comedian, Owen Osamwengie, popularly called Owen Gee, says he contracted COVID-19 alongside his wife and children.

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25. NFF Sets Up Special COVID-19 Task Force For Sports Men And Women

The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has put in place a special COVID-19 task force to the safety of sportsmen and women in the soccer sector.

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26. Tuesday Transfer: 2 DONE DEALS, Real Madrid Battling Atlectico For Striker, Haaland To Chelsea And More

Two Spanish giants are interested in Arsenal star

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