Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [03 April, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Monday, April 03, 2017.

PUNCH:

• No going back on strike today – NUPENG
  
  
• Executive/legislative face-off: APC meets Senate caucus Tuesday
  
  
• Nigeria’s debt burden to hit N19.3tn by December
  
  
• FG to meet WHO on meningitis Tuesday
  
  
• Rep seeks 20-year jail term for financial crimes
  
  
• Buhari has power to extend perm sec’s tenure – FG
  
  
• Tension in Ife as policeman kills youth during clash
  
  
• We’ve reduced gas flaring by 26% – NNPC
  
  
• ICAO to re-audit Nigeria’s accident bureau
  
  
• CAN demands apology from DSS for detaining Lemo, others
  
  
• I report at DSS office daily, not detained — Ifeanyi Ubah
  
  
• 200 homeowners emerge in Lagos rent-to-own initiative
  
  
• 109 Lagos retirees get N582m pensions
  
  
• MultiChoice hikes DStv, GOtv subscription rates
  
  
• I’m not involved in certificate scandal — Obaseki
  
  
• Queen’s College deaths: Parents knock education minister
  
  
• Gunmen kill bank worker, three others in Imo
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Presidency insists Buhari’s anti-graft battle will go on
  
  
• Senators, others face legal tussle over Magu
  
  
• Presidency/Senate feud: Saraki may meet Buhari
  
  
• Army denies abduction of 22 women in Pulka
  
  
• OPEC’s production cut may not raise oil prices, say experts
  
  
• CBN warns bank CEOs over forex
  
  
• PDP senators ’didn’t accuse Tinubu, EFCC of conspiracy’
  
  
• Olanrewaju dismisses Bamaiyi as ‘ambitious soldier’
  
  
• Nigeria ranks fourth in soft drinks sales
  
  
• Rice smuggling booms at border towns
  
  
• Woman dies as rainstorm destroys 50 houses in Edo
  
  
• 25 persons arrested for extortion, selling UTME registration materials
  
  
• 41 die of meningitis in Sokoto
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Coalition Demands Release Of Detained 13 UNILAG Students
  
  
• S-East Govs To Wade Into Nnamdi Kanu’s Detention
  
  
• Gas Firms Get Payment Guarantee From FG, CBN, World Bank
  
  
• Debt Burden: PDP Calls For Probe Of Past Lagos Govts
  
  
• NBA Heading For Crisis, As Mahmoud Asks National, Branch Officers To Stay On
  
  
• Dog Dies Fighting Suicide Bomber At Maiduguri Wedding Party
  
  
• March PMI indicates further decline in economic activities
  
  
• Kano Varsity Dispels Rumours Of Planned Tuition Hike
  
  
• AMCON accused of cannibalising Arik planes to repair Aero fleet
  
  
• Low Turnout For Nat’l Id In A-Ibom Worrisome – Coordinator
  
  
• Gov Emmanuel, Oil Firms Berate IOCs For Ignoring Local Content Law
  
  
• Wike Advocates Watertight Amendment Against Rigging In Electoral Act
  
  
• Police rescue pick-pocket from hunters in Adamawa
  
  
• 30-year-old allegedly kills wife’s grandfather