Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [06 August, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Saturday, 6 August, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Education key to national development –Prof. Okebukola
  
  
• Boko Haram: UNHCR, NBA to offer free legal services to IDPs
  
  
• NAF intensifies bombardment of vandals in Ogun communities
  
  
• No more room for corruption, CP warns officers
  
  
• EU provides additional €12.5m aid
  
  
• Kidnapping: IG deploys 510 policemen on Abuja-Kaduna highway
  
  
• I’m on divine mission, says Kogi governor
  
  
• Aregbesola presents N1.3bn bond certificates to retirees
  
  
• EFCC arrests FAAN official over N100m salary scam
  
  
• Electricity bills: DISCOs may disconnect MDAs over N93bn debt
  
  
• UN agency seeks action on arms trafficking, terrorists’ movement

VANGUARD:

• Photo: Obasanjo At PDP C’tee Inauguration
  
  
• I’m Committed To Edo Project Plan— Obaseki
  
  
• N1b Constituency Projects: EFCC Probes Ex-Zamfara Gov, Rep
  
  
• I Can Stabilise PDP If…- Bode George
  
  
• IG Deploys 510 MOPOL, 40 Patrol Vans To Combat Abuja/Kaduna Kidnapping Menace
  
  
• Video: Watch As Dogara Says Padding Not An Offence Under Any Law
  
  
• 2016 Hajj: Kano, Kaduna Get Largest Share, As FG Subsidises Pilgrims With N7.9bn
  
  
• Epileptic Power: What Are We Not Told?
  
  
• Can You Quit Or Forfeit Your Career For Marriage?
  
  
• PDP Not For Sale – BOT Chairman
  
  
• More Women Entrepreneurs Would Help Strengthen Economy— Onyemachi
  
  
• Edo 2016isown Pedro Obaseki, Accord Party Warns Ize-Iyamu
  
  
• Dignitaries Mourn As Onoh’s Widow Is Laid To Rest In Enugu State
  
  
• Video: Watch As PDP Zones National Chairmanship To South West
  
  
• Babies, Breasts And Breastfeeding
  
  
• Militancy: Expand Engagement Process In N-Delta, Uduaghan Urges Buhari
  
  
• New Leader For Boko Haram Portends Danger— Onah Ekhomu

THE NATION:

• NGE Confirms Egbemode as President
  
  
• Lagos shuts Marine bridge for repair works
  
  
• Herdmen Bandistry intolerable
  
  
• Olympics: Dream Team's victory, a good beginning – Buhari
  
  
• Kidnapping: IGP deploys 510 policemen to Abuja-Kaduna highway
  
  
• Strike: Hope dins for Bayelsa varsity students
  
  
• Dogara: Budget padding not an offence
  
  
• EFCC seizes N872m houses from ex-minister, son
  
  
• AMCON recovers N644b from debtors

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• B’HARAM LEADERSHIP CRISIS: Al-Barnawi Lists SHEKAU’S SINS
  
  
• Al-Barnawi Is Son Of Executed Founder, Boko Haram Insider Claims
  
  
• Dogara Meets Buhari, Says Budget Padding Not An Offence
  
  
• PDP Govs, Leaders Zone National Chair To South-West
  
  
• NGE Confirms Egbemode As President
  
  
• I Won’t Tolerate Herdsmen’s Attacks Any More –Buhari

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