Today's Newspaper Headlines [17 December, 2016]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Saturday, December 17, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Falcons paid as FG releases N358m – We were shortchanged – players
• Kalu visits Kanu, IPOB leader in prison
• Lagos vows to prosecute killers of LASTMA commander
• Buhari gives daughter out for 12 gold coins
• Zahra’s wedding, President @74: Nigerians congratulate Buhari on birthday, lament hard times
• More survivors of A/Ibom church collapse recount experiences
• Church collapse: Seadogs donates blood to victims
• Senate gives condition for Magu’s reconsideration
• Nigeria’s telecoms companies are not father Christmas –Shittu, Minister of Communications
• Lecturers beg Ajimobi to pay 10 months’ salaries
• S’Court dismisses Nyako’s appeal seeking reinstatement as governor
• Ondo: Akeredolu loses bid to stop suit challenging his candidacy
• Crime control: Ekiti inaugurates ‘Operation Flush’
• FUNAAB to recall 23 sacked workers
• Niger gov presents Nation budget for 2017
• Nollywood stars storm Aba for BON
• 2019 election will be a Tsunami – Wike
• Lagos plans to generate electricity from garbage
• Emefiele emerges chairman of global Islamic bank
• Customs arrest trailer carrying adulterated diesel, Indian hemp, others
• Two kidnappers killed during gun battle with police in Bauchi
• Family of policeman killed over N20,000 ‘largesse’ demands justice
• My wife never believed I could go back to school –44-year-old doughnut hawker

THE NATION

• Ribadu, Customs boss tipped to replace Magu
• Magu failed integrity test – DSS
• Wike denies link with tape
• NJC recommends sack of two judges
• Nigerite wins MAN’s Cleanest Manufacturing Company awards
• APC accuses Mimiko of secret recruitment of workers, sale of public properties
• Abba Yola tells Dalung Sit up or resign
• Rivers rerun: APC protesters shut down Port Harcourt
• Budget 2017 : China may withhold $29.9b loans

VANGUARD

• Gov Ayade Promises Bigger 2016 Carnival
• 2016 NYSC President’s Award: Scheme Nominates 140 Corps Members
• Kidnappers invade Ikotun/Igando, abduct 5, vow to get 150 more people
• Murder of LASTMA zonal head: Lagos launches manhunt for perpetrators
• High-profile govt officials run away from assets verification, CCB laments
• Arik Air alerts on aviation fuel supply scarcity
• Our plans to revolutionize business incorporation in Nigeria–Mahmud, CAC Registrar-General
• WAEC releases Nov/Dec WASSCE results, records 38.5% performance
• Soldiers go on rampage in Borno over unpaid allowances
• Judicial Malpractice: NJC sacks 2 High Court Judges
• Biafra: IPOB leader, Kanu, FG may settle out of court – Ex-Abia governor, Kalu

NG Bulletin