Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [04 April, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Tuesday, April 04, 2017.

PUNCH:

• NUPENG calls off strike, FG raises bridging cost to N7.20
  
  
• Companies convicted of laundering Patience Jonathan’s $15m hire Ozekhome
  
  
• BPE indicts FG for failing to dredge Calabar Channel
  
  
• I have no power to reinstate Ndume, says Saraki
  
  
• First tech hub in W’Africa opens at UNN
  
  
• NGEX develops online dictionary for Nigerian languages
  
  
• Onigbinde urges NFF to pay Rohr
  
  
• No vaccines for meningitis strain — FG
  
  
• Buhari’s wife intervenes in impregnated 16-year-old student’s case
  
  
• I have not defected to APC –Uduaghan
  
  
• Lagos investigates Portuguese wife’s death after childbirth in hospital
  
  
• Contractor arrested for absconding with N20m equipment
  
  
• Man sodomises 12-year-old boy to death
  
  
• Police arrest 51-year-old for defiling son’s friend
  
  
• Imo kidnappers abduct businessman
  
  
• Another doctor swallows 80 tablets in suicide attempt
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• President, Saraki, Dogara meet over budget, rift
  
  
• Fed Govt budgets $1b for software importation
  
  
• Nigeria needs $1.1b to fight Meningitis as death toll rises to 328
  
  
• Perm Sec arraigned over ‘non-declaration’ of N97.3m
  
  
• ASUU calls for UNILORIN VC’s resignation
  
  
• Unizik begins business school
  
  
• Govt warns against ISIS’ new recruitment strategy
  
  
• Use 2442 to stop provocative SMS, says NCC
  
  
• Fayemi plotting my removal, says Fayose
  
  
• Detained ex-Benue Governor Suswam battling for freedom
  
  
• Ondo Speaker, three others join APC
  
  
• Filmmaker Egbegbe re-arraigned over multiple frauds
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• $1.1bn Malabu Deal: FG Moves To Arrest Ex-AGF, Adoke
  
  
• FG begins online registration of unemployed Nigerians Wednesday
  
  
• 15 Die In Fresh Benue Farmers/Herdsmen Clashes
  
  
• Naira watch: Naira depreciates to N397/$ as CBN injects $240m
  
  
• DISCOs Claim Revenue Shortfall Now N809.8b
  
  
• NASS Urged To Work, Stop Entertaining Nigerians
  
  
• NLNG Pays $489m In Taxes To FG, States, Local Govts
  
  
• UTME: JAMB Registers 600,000 Candidates, Says No Extension Period
  
  
• Nigeria’s Indigenous Oil Operators Plan To Increase Production By 60 Percent In 2018
  
  
• I Was Chosen By Ifa Oracle, Ibeju-Lekki Monarch Tells Court
  
  
• Gov Ambode Receives Queen’s Baton, Tasks Sports Administrators
  
  
• EBENEZER OBEY AT 75: Ogun To Establish Museum For His Works

 

[Tochukwu David Okoronkwo]

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[Tochukwu David Okoronkwo]

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