Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [05 May, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Friday, May 05, 2017.

PUNCH:

• FG’ll employ 47,000 workers to fix roads – Fashola
  
  
• N200bn unpaid salaries: Federal civil servants threaten indefinite strike
  
  
• UTME: JAMB rakes in N8.5bn from form sale
  
  
• We found incriminating items in Kwakwanso brothers’ house – Police
  
  
• Killings: CAN president visits Kaduna, donates N8m relief materials
  
  
• APC targets N1.2bn monthly from members
  
  
• Nnamdi Kanu visits Enugu
  
  
• DSS arrests kidnapping syndicate in Sokoto
  
  
• Cameramen boycott plenary as Senate bars TV stations
  
  
• Sultan’s anti-war advice meant for Fulani herdsmen –MASSOB
  
  
• Senate passes bill to establish maritime varsity
  
  
• Benue assembly okays jail term for cattle grazing
  
  
• 25 injured as Muslims, masqueraders clash in Oyo
  
  
• FG has abandoned Rivers – Wike
  
  
• Health insurance crisis: HMOs drag NHIS to court
  
  
• Court jails two Borno LG officials for selling IDPs’ rice
  
  
• FIRS officials, Patience Jonathan’s hotel workers clash
  
  
• 10-year-old nabbed for vandalising Bauchi lawmaker’s house
  
  
• Three killed in Rivers fresh cult clash
  
  
• Two Kogi cow thieves to die by hanging
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Amaechi: Jonathan govt blew N34b on River Niger
  
  
• PDP leadership crisis: Supreme Court to hear appeal May 25
  
  
• Reps intervene in passport scarcity crisis
  
  
• Ex-NAF chief diverted N677m in tranches – EFCC
  
  
• Anti-graft war: EFCC secures 62 convictions in three months
  
  
• INEC registers 57,737 voters
  
  
• FGN Savings Bond targeted at poor, says DMO D-G
  
  
• Reps urge FG to register motorcycles, tricycles to stem crime
  
  
• Senate expands panel probing alleged N30tr leakage in Customs
  
  
• SEC sacks Ikeja Hotels board
  
  
• Five new political parties set for INEC’s registration
  
  
• Shop allocation: Kano anti-graft agency uncovers 1,108 fake traders
  
  
• Ex-Jigawa Governor Lamido gets bail on self-recognisance
  
  
• ‘Fake fertiliser’ factory uncovered in Kaduna
  
  
• Sheikh Jafar’s murder: Shekarau petitions IG over Goje’s document
  
  
• Uber reduces Lagos fares by 40%, see new prices
  
  
• Man jailed seven years for phone theft
  
  
• Expectant mum, kids stranded in U.S. after husband’s sudden death
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• 2017 Budget delay: FG to run on 25% of recurrent provisions
  
  
• False declaration of assets: I’ve no case to answer, Saraki tells CCT
  
  
• N3.9b NAF cash theft: Badeh’s counsel absconded to Dubai with title documents —Witness
  
  
• Naira rises to N389/$ as banks buy 29% of CBN’s dollar offer
  
  
• FG, IOCs disagree over $10bn crude overlift
  
  
• Car dealers set Customs’ vehicle ablaze in Kaduna
  
  
• Clampdown On Our Members Won’t Stop Anniversary Celebration —MASSOB
  
  
• APGA Faults INEC Registration Designation Centres
  
  
• How Amosu Diverted Airforce Funds To Private Firms — Witness
  
  
• FUTA Don Wins Fulbright Award
  
  
• NASFAT Set To Build N2.5b Islamic Center
  
  
• We’re Not Consultants To APC Govt — Mikko, SHERIFF PDP
  
  
• PDP: Anxiety As Crisis Lingers
  
  
• Imo Community Protests Over Eze Stool Tussle
  
  
• Anambra Guber: Obiano’s Failure Has Given Me Victory — Andy Uba
  
  
• WAEC Launches Interactive Platform For Candidates
  
  
• Expert Frowns At Slow Implementation Of Auto Policy
  
  
• Babalola, Ajibola Lead Other Eminent Muslims To Ibadan