Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [01 January, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Sunday, January 01, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Topmost global rating body: Nigeria’s economy will improve 2017
  
  
• FG yet to decide on Magu — AGF
  
  
• $1.1bn Malabu scam: EFCC launches manhunt for ex-minister, Etete
  
  
• Istanbul nightclub ‘Santa attack’ kills 35
  
  
• Nigeria needs more cancer specialists — Ajekigbe
  
  
• FG extends 2016 budget implementation to March 2017
  
  
• Naira faces further decline on continued dollar scarcity
  
  
• ACP commits suicide in Edo
  
  
• Nigerians will fare better in 2017 — APC
  
  
• Terrorism: Army to buy N5bn weapons in 2017
  
  
• Buhari receives Boko Haram flag from Army
  
  
• Peterside, Wike in war of words over leaked audio tapes
  
  
• Police detain family for allegedly stabbing neighbour to death
  
  
• Imbibe Buhari’s change agenda, Navy urges officers
  
  
• Monarch returns seized NIS rifles to police after PUNCH report
  
  
• Change will manifest in 2017, says Buhari
  
  
• Dogara collected $600,000 from Ibori, Jibrin alleges
  
  
• Wike’s audio leak: Govs block DSS from monitoring calls
  
  
• Iyaloja of Ibadanland removed
  
  
• Police to set up mobile base in Southern Kaduna
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Magu: Buhari orders Malami to submit report through VP
  
  
• Buhari to Nigerians: Change will manifest more in 2017
  
  
• Civil war veterans lament 38 years unpaid pension
  
  
• Buhari sets up Gambia mediation team
  
  
• Jibrin to Dogara: Return $600,000 you took from Ibori
  
  
• Chevron appoints new Nigeria managing director
  
  
• Trailer crushes 3 in Ekiti on New Year eve
  
  
• It’s a year of new hope, says Oluremi Tinubu
  
  
• I did not divert pension funds as VC, says JAMB Registrar
  
  
• Quit now, IG warns residents of distressed barracks
  
  
• Court vindicates UI lecturer over alleged sexual harassment
  
  
• Ogun community protest relocation of gas project
  
  
• Southern Kaduna killings: What Buhari should do to end killings – Fulani leaders
  
  
• Kaduna Polytechnic ASUP begins indefinite strike
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• We regret, condemn Southern Kaduna killings – Gov El-Rufai
  
  
• BOKO HARAM VICTIMS’ FUNDS: Buhari speaks on wrongdoings, vows to punish culprits
  
  
• N-Delta Waterways Now Secure- Kingsley Muturu, Ex-Militant Leader
  
  
• Olofa urges Nigerians to go to the farm in 2017
  
  
• Mikel Almost Made Me Quit, Says Ref Clattenburg
  
  
• No Man Can Solve World Problems— GKS
  
  
• Jehovah’s Witness Wins Tricycle As Oritsejafor Empowers 78
  
  
• NEW YEAR: Suffering Will Be Less In 2017 — Govs