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

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

PUNCH

• Presidency orders opening of maritime varsity
  
  
• 10 infants undergo open heart surgery at UNTH
  
  
• Cameramen restricted in Senate for security reasons –Saraki
  
  
• EFCC slams judiciary, prison officials for releasing convicted ex-gov
  
  
• North-East: UNDP budgets $4m for 2017
  
  
• Yar’Adua promoted equity in governance –Jonathan
  
  
• CJN inaugurates 13-man judiciary reform committee
  
  
• Nuclear energy: IAEA, Rosatom to assist Nigeria, others
  
  
• Mass rape: Four students arrested for assaulting Lagos schoolgirls in broad daylight
  
  
• OGBC staff threaten strike over unpaid salaries, others
  
  
• Oyo orders removal of 200 illegal structures on waterways
  
  
• Police arraign four for stealing generator in Imo
  
  
• Be computer literate or resign – Akeredolu tells workers
  
  
• NSCDC secures conviction of four oil thieves in Edo
  
  
• Murder: Bayelsa community protests police arrest of six indigenes
  
  
• We’ll sanction operatives who shot doctor’s car –NSCDC
  
  
• Unemployment: Edo to engage youths in 3,000km concrete road construction
  
  
• Fulani herdsmen have taken over 12 LGs in Benue – Gov
  
  
• Kogi Court remands B’Haram suspect in prison
  
  
• Seven killed in Borno suicide attack
  
  
• Nasarawa varsity dismisses 113 students over fake results
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Shekau in new video denies he was hit in air strike
  
  
• EFCC seeks total forfeiture of $43m as court’s deadline expires
  
  
• DAWN boss Famakinwa buried in Lagos
  
  
• Buhari attends Jumat in first public appearance after two weeks
  
  
• State House Perm Sec not suspended, says Presidency
  
  
• N30tr Customs probe: Senate uncovers more leakages, expands investigation panel
  
  
• Don tackles NACA, insists new drug cures HIV/AIDS
  
  
• Dogara settles patients’ N3.76m bills at ATBTH
  
  
• Meningitis: Govt directs board to extend vaccination to schools,others\
  
  
• Maritime varsity takes off in October – Okowa
  
  
• Boko Haram: Catholic bishop commends Borno governor for rebuilding churches
  
  
• 200,000 jobs coming as NCAC, BoI sign MoU
  
  
• NB searches for new CEO as HEINEKEN appoints Vervelde MD Asia Pacific Region
  
  
• Edo Govt. to build clinics, crèches in markets
  
  
• Workers protest against non-payment of salaries in Fedpoly zamfara
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Buhari’s appearance at Aso Villa Mosque douses tension over his health status
  
  
• CLARK TO OBJ: You Did Nothing To Stop Boko Haram As President
  
  
• CBN Boosts Forex Supply With $389million
  
  
• TUC wants FG to use recovered loot to revive ailing industries, others
  
  
• Telecom masts are not harmful — NCC
  
  
• Agatu Crisis: Why We Outlawed Open Grazing In Benue State — Ortom
  
  
• Police Arrest ‘Pastor’ With Human Skull In Ibadan
  
  
• Police uncover new militants’ hideout in Ikorodu
  
  
• Food security: Lagos set to increase rice production
  
  
• Lagos generates N20bn from land transactions in 2016
  
  
• Pay our 13-month salaries or face industrial action, NULGE tells Delta Govt
  
  
• Kogi Community Seeks Resuscitation Of Hospital
  
  
• LASG Denies Involvement In Demolition Of Sabo Market In Ikorodu
  
  
• Okocha, Babayaro Lead Nigeria To London
  
  
• Herdsmen Attack Trader, Cart Away N350,000, Foodstuff In Delta Community
  
  

 

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