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NEWS HEADLINES-29 JUN 21

NATIONAL

Nigeria records 65 new cases of COVID-19, total number of confirmed cases now 167,532. 

Nigeria prepares for third wave of COVID-19. 

COVID-19: FG extends travel ban, adds S’Africa to list. 

Tension in Lagos as Igboho insists on Jul 3 ‘Yoruba Nation Rally’. 

Nobody can stop Lagos rally - Igboho vows. 

ACF puts northern lawmakers on alert. 

Shun gratification, CJN advises new Appeal Court judges. 

ICPC set to arraign ex-JAMB registrar, Prof Dibu Ojerinde for N900m 

INEC resumes continuous voter registration online. 

Hitches in the conduct of UTME inexcusable. 

Ijaw leaders to FG: Take Niger Delta Avengers threat serious. 

Troops eliminate 12 terrorists in Borno. 

Group train police officers on Force Order 20. 

Road crashes kill 2.233 Nigerians in 4 months. 

Border corruption: Security agents, smugglers worsen subsidy crisis, flout Buhari’s order. 

BUSINESS

PENGASSAN seeks investor-friendly PIB. 

Your petrol threat to shutdown filling stations, empty, NUPENG, PENGASSAN tell IPMAN. 

Subsidy cost escalates, now N150bn/month. 

New Revenue Sharing Formula ready this year - FG. 

Court strikes out Copyright infringement suit against Nigerian Breweries. 

How Nigeria’ll ‘accidentally’ discovered 206trn cubic feet gas reserve - Sylva. 

CWG to boost revenue stream with new investments, partners. 

FG and the big lie on poverty in Nigeria. 

Diesel price jumps to N280, LCCI says inflation’ll rise. 

Oil palm producers seek N200bn intervention fund from CBN. 

Pension funds’ investment in equities up 70.4% to N830.6bn. 

Polaris Bank launches  ’Refer & Win’ reward for VULTe users. 

ACROSS THE STATES

Occupants escape as building collapses in Lagos. 

Lagos State Govt Health Commissioner bag NHEA 2021 awards. 

Ondo 2020: Akeredolu, PDP trade words over plan to mortgage workers’ welfare for ‘favorable court verdict’. 

CAN declares Jul 2 special day of prayers against insecurity in Oyo. 

Obaseki expands EdoBEST programme to secondary schools, tertiary institutions. 

12 injured as youths set houses ablaze in Delta community. 

Imoke knocks Donald Duke. 

Gov Emmanuel preaches unity as Akwa Ibom PDP caucus meets in Uyo. 

Udom Emmanuel’s unrelenting industrialization push. 

Military/IPOB clash: Uzodinma hailed for restoring peace in Imo. 

Uzodinma flags off Imo CARES program to cushion COVID-19 pandemic effect. 

NGO takes medical, food outreach to displaced Ohafia residents. 

Anambra: APC sets up Appeal C’ttee as 7 aspirants kick. 

Uba, Ezigbo to challenge Soludo in Anambra Guber Poll. 

Student protesting tuition hike shot dead in Kaduna. 

Tuition protest: Kaduna denies deploying operatives to suppress students. 

Kebbi NGO graduates 100 youths on skill acquisition. 

You can’t take our mandate to APC, PDP threatens Gov Matawalle. 

Street begging: Provide us with jobs, visually-impaired persons beg Ganduje. 

Police nab 10 robbery suspects in Borno. 

HUMAN ANGLE

How Kaduna-Abuja train passengers got stranded in ‘bush’. 

Kidnappers place N30m on victim whose pregnant wife was killed. 

1 killed as masquerade group clash with worshippers in Osun. 

Uduak Daniel still unleashing her roar. 

My uncle said I’ll die poor, Aisha Yesufu narrates childhood ordeal. 

Bizman’s bleeding wife’s health worsens following ordeal in hands of LASTMA officials. 

Robbers raid Osun Christian corpers’ lodge, injure six, steal N130,000. 

Baba Ijesha: Actors union bars members from working with Iyabo Ojo, Nkechi Blessing. 

’A Soldier’s Story 2 - Return from the Dead’ becomes first Nigerian Film to be distributed by Lionsgate. 

Groom calls off wedding because of food, marries another bride the same day. 

INTERNATIONAL

Watchdog: EU anti-money laundering policy is poorly coordinated. 

Coalition against Islamic states meets in Rome, turns eye on Africa. 

Ethiopia declares Tigray truce as rebels take city. 

UK classified documents found at a bus stop. 

SPORTS

Nigeria’s Ime Udoka becomes Boston Celtics’ 18th head coach. 

Mbappe the culprit as Switzerland stun France on penalties. 

Nice appoints title-winning Galtierss new coach. 

Djokovic advances, Tiafoe upsets Tsitsipas


GOOD MORNING

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