Tuesday, 5 August 2014

Newspaper Headlines for August 5

PUNCH
Presidency denies funding pro-Jonathan groups
Lagos female doctor contracts Ebola virus
Osun: 500,000 unclaimed voter cards cloned, APC alleges
Impeachment: Al-Makura appears before panel, lawmakers absent
At last, Oyinlola defects to APC
SURE-P: FG threatens fraudulent interns, firms
Omisore's bus donation divides OAU students
Ijaw youths reject posting to North
NYSC redeploys Borno corps members, others
A'Ibom roads: FERMA receives presidential order
Days of election rigging over – Jonathan
Lagos applauds self on de-flooding programme
Osun: IG reads riot act to troublemakers
Fayemi appoints LG caretaker chairmen
Hajj: Jonathan appoints Sultan to lead pilgrims
I want to play for Nigeria –Sammy Ameobi
Nigeria to play Rwanda in AFCON qualifier
Lazio to offer Onazi new contract
Keshi hands NFF acceptance notice

VANGUARD
APC directs officers to swarm Osun
Impeachments: Doomsday conspiracy?
Native doctor shot dead by vigilante operatives in Anambra
Osun Unlike Ekiti
'APC is more about propaganda'
NYSC: Posting of Ijaw to North needless—IYC
Ritualists pluck 9-yr-old boy's eyes in Bauchi
Osun: When Jonathan returned home
South Korea bars Nigerians from varsity confab
Why Osun poll will not be like Ekiti – Salaam, Osun Speaker
NFF elections: Confusion over sale of forms
NFF congratulates Sports Minister on Glasgow success
Super Eagles job: Keshi sends in letter of intent


THE NATION
 Town planners meet in Abuja
Centre announces Wole Soyinka arts exhibition panel - •Steve Ayorinde is panel chair 
Nigerian doctor contracts Ebola after treating victim
World Bank gives $200m Ebola assistance
Boko Haram: Military commits 600 extra-judicial killings, says Amnesty
 •Report wrong, says DHQ 
Oyinlola dumps PDP for APC
- •'Security crackdown on our members' 
 U.S.–Africa Summit opens in Washington
1,000 Govt College old boys reunite
 500,000 voter cards have been cloned, says APC
 Govt gives $1b to boost gas supply

TRIBUNE
 Ugandans baffled by sleeping ministers
Impeachment: Nasarawa lawmakers should appear —Panel •Al-Makura goes to court
APC directs govs, senators, reps to converge on Osogbo •Party is planning mayhem —PDP •Oyinlola defects to APC today
Politicians can no longer manipulate election results —Jonathan
 Ebola: Nigerian doctor tests positive •Maurice Iwu named member of FG treatment research team
Refocusing the FRSC
Amosun's critics not objective —Olaniyonu
 Confab achieved 95 % success —Ladoja
 Aregbesola will win gallantly — Sen Salami
 Most Nigerian politicians are jobless —Femi Babalola
Compiled by Demola Adefajo 
@demoadefa

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