Welcome to EKOHOTBLOG summary of top Major Nigeria Newspaper headlines for today, Wednesday, August 19th, 2020
The Nigeria Centre for Disease Control on Tuesday disclosed that the country has recorded 410 New COVID-19 cases.
Mali’s President, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita announced his resignation with immediate effect, Ekohotblog reports
U.S. Democratic Party has officially nominated former Vice President, Mr Joe Biden, as its candidate for the Nov. 3 presidential election.
The Kogi State Government has extradited 78 homeless and mentally challenged persons back to their states of origin.
Duoye Diri has filed an appeal challenging the verdict of the Bayelsa state governorship election petition tribunal which sacked him from office as governor of the state.
Leader of the Islamic Movement, Sheikh Ibrahim Zakzaky has on Tuesday, donated drugs and mosquito nets to internally displaced persons, IDPs in Faskari local government area of Katsina State.
The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) on Tuesday gave the federal government new conditions for the reopening of schools and suspension of industrial action it currently embarks on.
Giving update into the news of a Nigeria based Chinese company, the whistleblower has announced that interest groups within & outside Nigeria, are doing everything possible to deny justice on the reported Chinese slave camp, at inner Galaxy group.
Media Personality, Oluwatoyin Oki refutes claims that she is Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III’s new bride.
Twitter user, Ayo Shonaiya, has tendered an apology over his insensitive tweet about BBNaija, Erica.
A trader, Damilola Osilulu, on Tuesday told an Ile-Tuntun Customary Court in Ibadan that she beats her husband because he orders her around on how she should live her life.
Chairman of the Edo Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) campaign council, Dan Orbih, says the outcome of September 19 gubernatorial election in the state will determine the continuation or end of democracy in Nigeria.
United Nations Security Council will hold emergency discussions on Mali Wednesday, a day after an apparent military coup in the crisis-torn West African country.
Social media is full of absurdities.
So it makes sense that on Twitter on Wednesday, as of 3:30am, the hashtag “RIP Eminem” had more than 30,000 people tweeting under it, despite the fact that there is absolutely no news of the American rapper being anything but fine.
An Enugu woman identified as Josephine Nchetaka Chukwujama Eze, has attracted the attention of many Nigerians on social media after she returned approximately N14 million wrongly paid into her account.
The African Union has condemned the arrest of President Ibrahim Keita and Prime Minister Boubou Cisse.
A Nigerian lady, identified as Dodo Odera Babs on Twitter, says she wants Big Brother Naija Housemate, Laycon dead.
The Special Task Force responsible for the maintenance of peace in Plateau, Southern Kaduna and parts of Bauchi States, code-named Operation Safe Haven (OPSH) has rearrested another escaped prisoner.
A 27-year-old man, simply identified as Abdullahi Salisu, who allegedly assaulted a 100-year-old woman on Tuesday, appeared in Ile-Ife Magistrates’ Court.
US incumbent President, Donald Trump, has declared that the only way he would lose the November presidential election was if it is rigged.
The Oyo State Government, on Tuesday, announced a shift in the Common Entrance examination dates into its schools of science from Wednesday, August 19 to Tuesday, September 1.
The Oyo State Executive Council on Tuesday approved N800 million as counterpart contribution to Oyo State Water Supply and Sanitation Agency (RUWASA).
The Minority Caucus in the House of Representatives has rejected the 30-job slot allotted to each member of the House for their respective local government areas, in the recruitment exercise for the Federal Government’s Public Works Scheme.
Sisu Abu Daooh is a 65 year old Egyptian woman who has been dressing as a man for the last forty years of her life to work, supporting herself and her daughter after her husband died when she was just six months pregnant. She refused to bow to the pressure of remarrying which was the only way she could survive as a woman in the late 70’s. Getting an office job was off limits for her because she wasn’t educated and labor jobs were closed to women in her country so she shaved her hair, wore loose male clothes which got her labor jobs.
John Cleese and Sacha Baron Cohen have been truly amazing. They came up with the brilliant idea of devoting a whole day to extoling the virtues and superlative achievements of women in various fields of human endeavour – as a counterpoise or complement to “ME TOO”. It has been a roaring success on Resilience Television with viewership going through the roof even though there was no prior announcement of the day selected for this fantastic innovation.
It took Resilience Television entirely by surprise that what both John Cleese and Sacha Baron Cohen had dismissed as a matter of little significance had degenerated into a major controversy which had developed a life of its own. It had to do with the station’s aversion to airing any COVID-19 virus reports so that its viewers who are already overwhelmed with anxiety fatigue over the ruthless pandemic would be spared the anguish of its invasion into their living room and private space.
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