Monday 17 October 2016

Newspaper Headlines

*GUARDIAN*
* Power sector loses N549b yearly to gas constraints
* Lawyer files N50b suit against Buhari, DSS, others over judges’ arrest
* Registrar enjoins National Assembly to suspend review of JAMB’s Act
* Nigeria, 196 others agree to ban refrigerants
* National Assembly seeks law to implement 2016 budget till May next year
* Government restates pledge to provide potable water

*PUNCH*
* Dollar scarcity: Banks suspend ATM card usage abroad
* JAMB scraps use of scratch cards
* My wife’s duty is to look after me, Buhari insists

* Curfew imposed on southern Kaduna as herdsmen kill 20
* Chibok girls recount ordeal as they reunite with parents
* Buhari has received N’Assembly’s summons on recession — Presidency

*THISDAY*
* CBN Includes Airlines in Interbank Foreign Exchange Market
* Judges’ Arrest: Report from Presidency Says DSS Acted in Accordance with Law
* Herdsmen Attack Military Outpost, Kill 20 in Kaduna
* N’Assembly Bows to Pressure, Begins Move to Make Earnings Public
* Sultan Makes Strong Case for Minorities in Nigeria
* Task Force Uncovers Oil Bunkers, Destroys Two Million Litres of Diesel

*THE NATION*
* Chibok girls: we stayed without food for 40 days
* Buhari’s, wife’s comments taken out of context, says Okorocha
* Judges’ arrest: Buhari, DSS, AGF sued for N50b
* Bayelsa recorded 1,000 oil spills in 2014, says govt
* Kenya overturns Nigeria’s 25 years lead in stock trading
* Hike in cement price: bricklayers set Oct 19 for protest

*THE SUN*
* Kalu raises the alarm over plot to transfer EFCC case to Lagos
* Adebanjo: Judges behave like ‘one-chance robbers’
* Non-oil exports shrink to $1.63bn
* Workers decry casualisation, poor conditions
* Akwa Ibom gov sacks cabinet
* BBC interview: Buhari insists Aisha belongs in the kitchen

*VANGUARD*
* Listen to your wife, Reps tell Buhari
* Stakeholders Task FG To Inject Money Into Economy To Reduce Interest Rate
* Lagos Crucial To Nation’s Recovery From Recession — Utomi
* UNILAG expels 125, rusticates 198 students
* Buhari/wife interview: Joke taken too far – Okorocha
* Buhari ready for talks, invites N-Delta leaders for meeting.

NEW TELEGRAPH
We lived without food for 40 days- Chibok girls
Buhari to Aisha: stay out of politics
Kalu: EFCC wants to convict me at all cost
Fire razes 94 shops in Lagos
Air crash: Dana, others receive 400 million naira claims from co-insurers

THE AUTHORITY
More chibok girls expected as talks resume today
Meltdown in the textiles industry: over 700,000 workers lose their jobs
I’m alive says Niger man with 86 wives
Suspected herdsmen kill 20 in Kaduna community
52 ethnic civil society groups plan to merge with IPOB

BLUEPRINT
Northern leaders to Buhari: your economic policies cant end recession
Negative comments can jeopardize Chibok girl’s release
Customs dismiss 17 officers over certificate forgery
NNPC subsidiary in 17 bn naira contract scam
Sultan canvasses better treatment of minorities

NIGERIAN PILOT
Akeredolu canvases reconciliation among APC chieftains
Police foils prison break in Bauchi
Corruption: NJC hits Buhari
Man sexually assaulted by two women
Gunmen kill 2 police Sergeants, wound 2 others at checkpoint
Troops kill another suicide bomber near military base in Adamawa
El-Rufai orders arrest of Shiites attackers
Dialogue, the way out of Nigeria crises – Abubakar

PUNCH
UNILAG expels 125, rusticates 198 students
MASSOB threatens ‘internal revolution’ against Igbo leaders
Curfew imposed on southern Kaduna as herdsmen kill 20
Tension in Delta community over alleged monarch removal
Four feared killed in Rivers cult clash
Imo APC suspends commissioner, LG chair
I’m still alive, man with 97 wives in Niger

LEADERSHIP
World Food Day: Farmers Appeal To Govt For Modern Farming Inputs
Group Urges Military To Intensify Efforts To Rescue Remaining Girls
Chibok Girls: CAN Applauds Federal Government, Rejoices With Parents
FG Urged To Strengthen JAMB’s Act For Maximum Results
NBA’s Chicanery And The Assault On Nigeria’s Democracy
Customs Sacks 17 Officers For Drug Addiction, Certificate Forgery
Utomi Tasks FG On Huge Investments In Infrastructure To Revamp Economy

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