Newspaper Headlines

PUNCH
* Alleged N4.7bn fraud: Obanikoro to testify against Fayose
* ‘239,834 Nigerians still refugees in Chad, Niger, Cameroon’
* Police kill three, foil attack on plane
* Nigerians without tax certificate may not get passport —FIRS
* Wike accuses CP of plotting to rig Rivers rerun
* ‘N’Assembly not frustrating 2017 budget process’ - SENATE
* FG may file charges against judges before CCT soon
* GSM subscribers to pay more for data from Dec 1.

THE NATION
* Nigerian troops in Somalia not paid for 11 months
* Suspected militants abduct seven in Epe

* Intelligence-based policing solution to insecurity, say experts
* 30 NGOs get $172,000 from U.S. embassy for community projects
* TETFund spends N122b on varsities, others
* Fed Govt backs Umahi’s ban on sale of imported rice
* Final year UNN student ‘commits’ suicide
* MAN to CBN: Reduce interest rate.

VANGUARD
* Arrest more judges, Mbaka exhorts FG
* Justice Abang after me for criticising him — Fayose
* Buhari, Tinubu not at loggerheads — Presidency
* Firms expect higher inflation, further fall in Naira value — CBN report
* Our goal is to ensure health for all Nigerians — Minister of Health, Prof Isaac Adewole
* FG owes oil marketers $1.7bn
* Recession: NYSC Asks For Subsidized Feeding
* Buhari Directs Speedy Completion Of Pensioners’ Verification

GUARDIAN
* First new HIV vaccine trial begins in Africa
* Makarfi’s PDP seeks cancellation of Ondo poll, heads for tribunal
* Don’t cut health budget, minister appeals to National Assembly
* ‘29,000 displaced Nigerians returned home in 2015’ - NEMA
* Don canvasses scrapping of joint accounts in local councils
* FG to hire foreign consultants to monitor MDAs’ budgets
* ‘Militants’ attack, kidnap seven in Lagos
* Experts pick holes in planned $15b rail projects