Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [06 January, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Friday, January 06, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Mahrez wins African crown
  
  
• Nigerians spend 193 minutes on their smartphones daily
  
  
• Lagos Assembly okays death for kidnappers
  
  
• Extortion: ICPC indicts FUNAAB, returns N4.7m to 952 students
  
  
• MDAs delay Reps' probe of $17bn stolen crude, gas
  
  
• Traders collapse as fire destroys N3bn goods at Nnewi market
  
  
• Osun magistrates petition CJ as CP fails to arrest Oluwo
  
  
• Judges spent festive season without December pay
  
  
• $1.1bn Malabu scam: EFCC yet to begin Adoke's extradition
  
  
• '156 journalists killed in 2016'
  
  
• Bauchi loses N1bn monthly to ghost workers
  
  
• Mikel set to join Chinese club
  
  
• Nigerians pay hospital bill, mother of newborn twins re-appears
  
  
• Passengers beat Arik Air manager over delayed flight
  
  
• Babcock undergraduate sends New Year message, commits suicide
  
  THE NATION:
  

• Assembly okays death penalty for kidnappers
  
  
• Chibok schoolgirl found with six-month-old baby
  
  
• Defence spokesman: we’ll not reveal whereabouts of other Chibok girls
  
  
• Buhari orders actions against Southern Kaduna violence
  
  
• Private investors for Lekki, Ikorodu, Sagamu road, others
  
  
• Ogoni clean up: MOSOP seeks quick replacement for minister
  
  
• CBN sells N173b T-Bills, fixed income securities’ yields rise
  
  
• ILO: Global youth unemployment rose by 13.1% in 2016
  
  
• Cooking gas price hits N4, 500
  
  
• Court reinstates two sacked FUNAAB lecturers
  
  
• Fire destroys Coca-Cola depot in Uyo
  
  
• Ex-Ebonyi lawmakers, chairmen to earn monthly stipends
  
  
• ICPC stops university from exploiting students
  
  
• PANDEF condemns Fed Govt’s ‘orchestrated’ attacks on Jonathan
  
  
• Opposition parties pass vote of confidence in Tambuwal
  
  
• Yenagoa FMC doctors suspend strike after 50 days
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  

• Nigeria can’t be Islamised – Osinbajo
  
  
• Embattled Osun monarch’s case for withdrawal today
  
  
• Reptiles, weed take over Abuja National Stadium as Sports ministry staff abandon offices
  
  
• Accidental Discharge: Presidential Villa Safe, Presidency Assures
  
  
• NUPENG Shuts Down Total Plc Over Sacked Workers
  
  
• Okorocha Is Owing Us 77 Months —Imo Pensioners
  
  
• Kebbi Awards N935m For Erosion Control, Road Rehabilitation
  
  
• Security Agencies Conducting 16 Operations Nationwide To Stem Kidnapping —DHQ
  
  
• Ministerial Nomination: Faleke, Kogi APC Leaders Return To Trenches
  
  
• Strike: Resident Doctors Lament FG’s ‘Anti-Labour Policies’
  
  
• Internet Users Decline To 92.4m In Nov – NCC
  
  
• Obiano Upgrades Agric College To Polytechnic
  
  
• FG To Accept Naira Instead Of Dollars From Debtor Airlines
  
  
• Jigawa Pension Scheme Account Hits N17.6bn
  
  
• Many PDP Govs’re Secretly Behind Sheriff – Dr. OjOugboh