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

[PressRoom]

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

PUNCH:

• Corruption in civil service, a nation’s greatest tragedy — Osinbajo
  
  
• 2019: I’ll not contest against Buhari, says Tinubu
  
  
• Economy shrank by -1.5% in 2016 – NBS
  
  
• We’ll pass PIGB latest by April, says Senate
  
  
• N-power members protest delay in posting, salaries
  
  
• NAFDAC busts forgery syndicate linked to Indians, Mexicans
  
  
• Petroleum products’ importation a fraud, must end –Kachikwu
  
  
• Stock market lost N207bn in February
  
  
• Herdsmen are actively involved in kidnapping — Delta CP
  
  
• Fayose slams Obasanjo for criticising his generation
  
  
• Igbo’ll never produce Nigeria’s President –MASSOB Soludo, Utomi, Igbo leaders demand Nnamdi Kanu’s release
  
  
• 18-hour power supply impossible now — BEDC
  
  
• CCTV buses will replace danfos, says LASG
  
  
• N6bn fraud: EFCC’s absence stalls alleged bank hacker trial
  
  
• FG won’t ban okada, tricycles –Amaechi
  
  
• Boundary dispute: Osinbajo meets Akwa Ibom, Cross River, Ebonyi governors
  
  
• NIS arrests three Beninoise with pistol, charms
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Tinubu: I’m not getting set to run for president
  
  
• EFCC recovers more vehicles, others from ex-Customs boss
  
  
• Tight security as Sheriff resumes at PDP secretariat
  
  
• Minister: no Nigerian killed in South Africa’s attacks
  
  
• Fed Govt records late passage of budget in six years, says FRC#
  
  
• Naira closes at N445 to dollar as more inflows expected
  
  
• Dangote exports 400,000 metric tons cement
  
  
• Senate seeks ‘immediate payment of N2tr’ owed local contractors
  
  
• Labour kicks against El-Rufai’s plan to sell 1,990 quarters
  
  
• Jonathan, governors seek political solution to PDP crisis
  
  
• We need fund to tackle kidnapping, says IG
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Xenophobic attack: Gbajabiamila leads delegation to South Africa
  
  
• Xenophobic attacks: NASS threatens reprisals as S-Africa deports 97 Nigerians
  
  
• Army Flags Off New Brigade In Bayelsa
  
  
• Assemblies Of God Crisis: I Remain GS —Rev Emeka
  
  
• Senate Urges FG To Rename Benin Airport After Oba Erediauwa
  
  
• Reps To Debate Alleged Dumping Of Suspected Toxic Waste In Koko Today
  
  
• N15.1m Ransom Paid For Iba Monarch’s Freedom, Witness Tells Court
  
  
• NNPC Faces Probe Over Alleged Unremitted N5.1trn
  
  
• NJC proposes N5.2bn for retired judicial officers in 2017
  
  
• NBC To Shut Down Broadcast Stations Over N5bn Debt
  
  
• MedView Airline Plane Develops Fault Mid-Air