NATION
*States to get N100m each to boost COVID-19 response
*GCE an option for pupils, says minister
*PTF cautions Nigerians on Eid-el-Kabir celebration
*Lagos virus cases to rise next month, says govt
*Magu can’t open defence
*NDDC: House panel calls for further probe by anti-graft agencies, removal of Ojougboh
*Reps to sue Akpabio for perjury, defamation as minister back tracks
*PDP will defeat Akeredolu, says Jegede
*Igbo leader seeks support for APC
*Buhari, others in Mali to make peace
*Buhari, others in Mali to make peace
*Senate seeks sack of NDDC IMC, refund of N4.9billion
*Funtua backed resource control demand, says Ita-Giwa
*Liverpool to hijack Osimhen’s Napoli move
*Ngige promises non-interference in 774,000 jobs recruitment
*Tributes as Arotile is buried with military honours
*Lagos State Printing Corporation unveils new signage
*Glo gives customers more data
*Senate begins annual vacation
*Third Mainland Bridge: Sanwo-Olu assures of smooth movement
*102 healthcare workers infected in Nasarawa – NMA
*Kano leads in viral test, says NCDC
*Fayemi: I’ll resume duties soon
*200 youths get skill training
*Governors set to boost local economy
*Court adjourns Ecobank, oil firms’ N5.4b debt case
*Doctors threatens strike in Delta
*Fresh concerns over NFF’s palliatives to clubs
*Prepare to work harder, GOC tells 81 Division officers, soldiers
*Robber to die by hanging in Delta
*Four policemen to be dismissed in Nasarawa
*Foreigners, others held for terrorism, kidnapping
*Gunmen free kidnap suspects, murderers at Plateau court
DAILY TRUST
*New era in Nigeria’s aviation beckons
*Good night my dear Isa Funtua
*Flying Officer Arotile’s death
*Flying Officer Tolulope Arotile (1995-2020)
*Corruption: The invincible
*Equities market rebounds as investors gain N176bn
*Free trade pact’s benefits to Africa’s economies huge — Brou
*Why Customs Board retires anti-corruption crusader, Abubakar
*NEPC lists constraints to Nigeria’s export business
*Rice farmers begin sale of paddy to Kano millers
*Youth magazine features budding entrepreneurs
*Niger trains 500 youths on borehole repairs, bio-gas
*Despite hurdles, my art ambition is unwavering — Ahmad
*Firm launches tractor hiring App to boost agric productivity
*‘Dangote cement promo will mitigate COVID-19 impact on economy’
*Customers protest CAC’s new policy on company certificate delivery
*IoD to launch Code of ethics for Nigerian Directors
*Pressure mounts on travel agencies over N26bn unused tickets
*Lagos to partner private sector on infrastructure devt
*NIMASA, Customs move to curb temporary import permit abuse
*Sallah: Prices of rams skyrocket in Nguru
*Benue to recruit 2,300 community policemen, 460 volunteer guards
*`One chance’ syndicates operating in taxi, tricycles in Plateau – Police Commissioner
*Fulani, Berom communities disagree over building of primary school
*Makurdi female cobbler making difference in shoemaking
*RIFAN pledges to crash price of local rice in Taraba
*Farmer/herder’s pact: Peace ambassadors solicit for government’s palliatives
*How flood claims 2 lives, destroys houses in Gombe
*Communities beg Bauchi LG to construct drainages to tackle flooding
*Concern as illegal gas filling centres spring up in Awka
*Part of bridge linking Anguwan Sarakuna and Magaji quarters
*AIG pledges to check rising herders/farmers clashes
*Residents lament poor state of roads in Oyigbo
*Hoodlums attack Edo commissioner’s house
*31-yr-old man bags 9 years for raping minor
*Residents, government disagree over relocation order
*NGO donates automated sewage truck to Yobe hospital
*NGO trains Yobe health workers on patient handling, equipment
management
*Group condemns killing of five aid workers in Borno
*Persons with disabilities demand inclusion in Osun
*Gov Sanwo-Olu extols former Lagos gov Lateef Jakande at 91
*Separate me from my wife over irreconcilable differences, okada rider tells customary court
*774,000 jobs: Ex-Kuje chairman heads FCT committee
*COVID-19: Policemen disrupt FCT mobile court over conviction of colleagues
*Eid el-Kabir: FCTA to enforce COVID-19 protocols in abattoirs, livestock markets
*Bickering in Lagos as Igbokwe, Idumogu claim Igbo APC leadership
*Your reign has ended, Jegede tells Akeredolu
*Edo poll litmus test for 2023 – Arch Onolememen
*We are against government entering our community without our knowledge – Enugu community
*Wie-West named US Solheim Cup assistant captain
*Juve miss chance to seal title with Udinese defeat
*Man Utd will be ‘100 per cent fresh’ for Leicester clash- Solskjaer
*I joined Abia Warriors because of their ambition – Amakapabo
*NFF won’t beg Bukayo Saka to play for Nigeria –Pinnick
*US House votes to end Trump’s controversial ‘Muslim ban’
*Muslim students donate contactless COVID-19 machine
*Turkey appoints imams, muezzins for Hagia Sophia mosque
*On Magu, magun and corruption by the elites (I)
*New Ogun CP warns police officers against misconduct, extra-judicial killings
VANGUARD
*Nigerian students urged to shun cultism, drug abuse
*Ogun Monarch petitions police over activities of land grabbers, abduction of domestic staff
*Presidency mulls restriction of access to Aso Rock clinic
*New daughters of Africa
*Facebook promises cheaper internet in Africa
*COVID-19: Aisha Buhari urges stakeholders to tackle malnutrition in Nigeria
*Group honours Osinbajo, disburses N1m grant each to 100 young entrepreneurs
*More than 10,000 African health workers infected with COVID-19 — WHO
*North-East is big hub for cotton production —NASC
*Agtech plans to launch Retail Meat Hubs across Nigeria in Q2
*Only Agro-revolution can save us, not Oil — Ayade
*Dantata, Kano collaborate on Agro Pastoral Project
PUNCH
*We’ve identified plans to generate N18tn revenue – FG
*Number of Nigerian doctors in United Kingdom rises to 7,875
*I rejected Funtua’s request that Sowore begged Buhari – Falana
*Lottery operator commits suicide over winnings
*Farmer, friend rape stroke patient
*Policemen sack FCT mobile court for arresting colleagues
*Women protest Southern Kaduna killings half naked
*LCCI, expert worry as debt profile rises by 127%
*Majority of COVID-19 patients prefer home treatment – Lagos
*Third Mainland Bridge: 650 LASTMA, 250 FRSC to monitor traffic
*CAC bars customers from its Lagos, Abuja offices
*Reps to probe North-East agency over missing N100bn
*I’ll be back soon –Fayemi
*Check that anger before it hurts you
*WASSCE: FG considers Nov/Dec GCE option
*Outrage over treatment of lady arrested with boyfriend
*BRT bus crushes businessman to death in Lagos
*Trader detained for nephew’s offence dies in police custody
*Seamen who paid $200,000 ransom to pirates remanded
*Court frees Madonna students, officer after 17-month trial
*Court sentences man to death by hanging for robbery
*Police kill suspected robber in Ebonyi
*Nigeria lost $1.4bn to chemical importation in 2019 – NARICT
*Manufacturers seek viable alternatives to Third Mainland Bridge
*33 states partner FG on water, sanitation development
*Ethical companies likely to survive after COVID-19, says IoD
*Stakeholders stalling Apapa congestion clearing, says Opeifa
*Police launch manhunt as gunmen attack Plateau warders, free suspects
*Police probe cops extorting N100,000 from youths
*Senate begins eight-week recess
*Benue seizes 230 cows, arrests four herdsmen
*Akpabio recants as Reps move to sue for defamation, perjury
*NAF, others pay tributes as Arotile is buried in Abuja
*Edo, security agents meet to mop up arms
*Aid workers: Zulum demands fresh ideas against Boko Haram
*Jegede talks tough, vows to end Akeredolu’s reign
*Ex-acting APC chair, Eta, seeks end to litigation
*Lockdown worsened rape cases, sexual offences – AGF, NHRC, others
*Nasarawa fined N10m, Lafia stadium banned over Martins’ death
*Don’t impose players on me, Imama warns Warriors
*Saka handed Arsenal No.7 jersey
*Courts shun AGF Malami, begin annual vacation
*IYC demands date for Bayelsa senatorial bye-elections
*Sultan declares July 31 Eid-El Kabir
*Lagos asks workers to prepare for challenges
*Ohanaeze backs NASS call for service chiefs’ removal
*Stop wasting time on frivolities, commissioner tells youths
*Some politicians site projects in their houses – ICPC
*Sports broadcast: Fight against exclusivity clause gets boost
*NDDC as site of predatory capture
*Sanwo-Olu felicitates Jakande at 91
*Niger deputy speaker resigns
*FMC Abeokuta: Patients cry out over workers’ negligence, hostility
*150 Ekiti face mask violators prosecuted in three days
*Allocating marginal oil fields transparently
THISDAY
*Nigeria Records 20 COVID-19 Deaths as Cases Rise to 38,948
*Gunmen Attack Black Maria in Plateau, Free Six Suspected Criminals
*US Court Dismisses Fraud Case against Woodberry
*Ohanaeze Backs Senate’s Call for Resignation of Service Chiefs
*Pandemonium as Police Disperse Abuja Mobile Court
*Women Protest against Killings in Southern Kaduna Communities
*House to Investigate Alleged N100bn Fraud at North East Devt Commission
*BBN to Generate N2bn for Nigerian Economy
*Ita-Giwa Mourns Funtua
*Police Detain ASP, Inspector over Treatment of Lady Arrested with Boyfriend
*Ikpeazu Signs Abia Revised 2020 Budget of N102b
*Senate, FG Resolve to Revive Ajaokuta Steel Mill
*Glo Offers Additional Data Value to Subscribers
*Citizenship-by-Investment Firm Opens New Office in Nigeria
*THE FUN AND FURY OF SAPELE
*CONTEST FOR POWER AND THE PEOPLE
*Nigeria Records 20 Deaths, 604 New Cases of COVID-19
THE SUN
*Delayed passage of PIB hurting exploration, investments –NAPE
*Nigeria: A National Assembly and its endless scandals
*Pension assets hit N10.8tr
*Idemili professionals hail Onyeali-Ikpe’s appointment as Fidelity Bank’s CEO designate
*BBN’ll inject N2bn into Nigeria’s economy –Experts
*Glo delights customers with more data
*Amend EFCC Act now –Abdulahi Dania, Human rights activist
*Fish farmers seek CBN, NIRSAL’s support to boost production
*No going back on total shutdown of oil, gas operations –Urhobo group
*NIMASA, Customs to check Temporary Importation Permit abuse
*Pensioners hail Buhari for N7.45bn payment
*CBN Anchor Borrowers’ Scheme not for political farmers –Ebonyi
*Osimhen to seal Napoli deal Monday
*NCSC demands tighter measures against cybercrime
*NFF report on late Martins: NPFL players to undergo mandatory medical test
*Onyekuru: Rohr consistent on players call up
*Widow begs Sanwo-Olu, CP to fish out hubby’s killers
*NFF board member, Okenwa, for burial today
*Basketball community mourns Okedeyi
*I regret not playing golf early –Abimbola Davis
*Gale of rapes in Lagos
*Terrorism: Court remands 3 foreigners, 6 Nigerians
*Gunmen storm Plateau court, whisk away 4 kidnap, robbery suspects
*…Kidnappers struck in Osisikankwu’s community, abduct commissioner’s father
*Sony Music’s Shun Breezy makes waves with Oju Aja
*Time for Nigeria to embrace proper records management –Havilah’s Lanre Adesuyi
*Ozzybee’s COVID-19 palliatives for Nnewi widows
*‘Breach of Nigeria’s diplomatic property in Ghana should never have happened’
*Cote d’Ivoire crisis deepens as Vice President quits
*Gambia restates commitment to ECOWAS single currency
*NDDC probe, National Assembly and the way we are
*Michael Mbanefo Ogbalu: Tribute to colossus and foremost physician
*Ikpeazu signs Abia revised N102bn 2020 budget
*IWA condemns Ohanaeze’s splinter group formation
*Airport land: Call your aides to order, Anambra community begs Obiano
*Akwa Ibom leaders make case for president of Igbo extraction
*Ayade, lawmakers shift battle for PDP chairmanship position to NWC
*2021: Disquiet as Anambra gags traditional rulers
*Reps to sue Akpabio for perjury, defer consideration of probe panel report, minister recants
*Alleged NDDC fraud: Senate wants IMC sacked
*Madagascar herbal remedy can’t cure COVID-19 –FG
*Aso Rock clinic scales down public access due to lean budget
*Things getting unbearable, say private school teachers
*Policemen fire gunshots, sack FCT Mobile Court for arresting colleagues
*PAN, NGO kick against schools’ resumption
*We won’t tolerate killings of Christians anymore -ECWA
*Ekhomu warns on seizure of more aid workers
*Deputy Speaker resigns as Niger Assembly crisis deepens
*Kwara revises 2020 budget to N115bn
*State must win for APC –Aliero
*Ondo guber: Jegede emerged PDP candidate, says end of Akeredolu’s reign near
*War against crime: GMC to engage 10000 youths
*Arotile, NAF first female combat pilot, buried
*Finding relevance in virtual economy
*NSIWC embarks on states’ public service comparability survey
*Ohanaeze backs NASS on Service Chiefs
*UN, US, EU, others express sadness over execution of humanitarian workers
*Stakeholders demand liberalisation of LADOL free zone
*S’East, S’South professionals get new exco
*Pains of 3rd Mainland Bridge’s closure’ll be minimal, Sanwo-Olu assures Lagosians
GUARDIAN
*Strong risk management, business plan lift United Capital H1 2020 profit
*Jegede wins Ondo PDP governorship primary with 888 votes
*Lawyers Alert launches inquiry on women rights abuses during lockdown
NEW TELEGRAPH
*NDDC probe: HEDA faults NASS, calls for public inquiry
*WHO: Over 10,000 African health workers infected with COVID-19
*COVID-19: WAEC can’t shift its timetable, says Minister
*Oshiomhole: PDP provided documentary evidence that disqualified Obaseki
*Oshiomhole: PDP provided documentary evidence that disqualified Obaseki
*BBN brings N2bn into Nigerian economy, say experts
*Reps to Buhari: Appoint coordinator for amnesty programme
*Deputy Speaker Niger State House of Assembly quits
*Ondo PDP Primary: Ajayi accepts defeat
*Probes won’t overshadow Buhari’s achievements –Okechukwu
*Osimhen to fight for shirts with Mertens, three others
*NFF axes Nassarawa United over Martin’s death
*Okedeyi’s death throws basketball fraternity into mourning
*Ex-Sports Minister attacks NFF over funds
