Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [08 August, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Monday, 8 August, 2016.

VANGUARD:

• We ‘Ll Make Yorubaland A No Go Area For Militants – Gani Adams
  
  
• Shareholders, Operators Wary Of Plans By Firms To Raise Over N160bn
  
  
• Death Toll Of Military Personnel Killed In Niger By Bandits Rises To 12
  
  
• Assembly Lacks Powers To Stop Gov From Travelling- C-River Speaker
  
  
• Wike To INEC: Don’t Provoke Violence In Rivers
  
  
• Four Days After Arrest, Whereabouts Of IPDI Spokesperson Still Unknown
  
  
• Militants Set Up 7 Camps Along Lagos, Ogun Creeks
  
  
• 3 Pregnant Teenagers Rescued From Traffickers In Asaba
  
  
• Budget Padding: Buhari Won’t Shield Dogara, Others From Trial — Presidency
  
  
• Kidnappers Of Bayelsa Lawmaker’s Father Want N70m
  
  
• I Fainted During Abduction, Says Freed Lagos Monarch, Oba Oseni
  
  
• My Pastor Encouraged Me To Market Stolen Car— Suspect
  
  
• 79-Yr-Old Man Jailed 4 Years Over N120,000 Fraud
  
  
• Wike’s Not Sponsor Of Avengers- Rivers Govt
  
  
• Economy: The Blind Leading The Blind
  
  
• How Amendment Of CAMA Will Improve Investment Climate
  
  
• Global Context: Economic Crisis, Widening Inequality And Civil Unrest

PUNCH

• Nigeria beat Sweden, qualify for quarterfinals
  
  
• Obiano’s wife joins ‘no genotype test, no wedding’ campaign
  
  
• ‘Charge alleged militant to court’
  
  
• Reps seek more oil blocs for N’Delta indigenes
  
  
• APC seeks dualisation of Calabar-Itu highway
  
  
• Ezeife advises South-East governors on farming
  
  
• PDP chair: Bode George, Agbaje divide governors
  
  
• Military operations in Niger saved many lives – Army
  
  
• APC raises N121m from Ondo gov aspirants
  
  
• Budget padding is corruption, SERAP tells Dogara]
  
  
• PPA, APGA woo Edo voters
  
  
• Zaria clash: Sharia Council wants Shiites punished

THE NATION:

• $321m Abacha loot: Govt sends plans to Switzerland

• MEND chieftains out to kill me, says Jonathan

• Wike, IYC disown Niger Delta Avengers
• Notore denies security, economic saboteur label
• Buhari to probe budget padding, constituency projects
  
  
• Troops recover militants’ pictures, register in Arepo creeks
  
  
• Stock Exchange warns 62 firms
  
  
• Oshiomhole should refund council funds, says PDP
  
  
• IfeanyiUbah’s coach laments team’s defending versus Plateau
  
  
• LASACO pays N142m claims to dead workers’ families
  
  
• Hyundai’s first electric car on sale12:00 am
  
  
• How Kwara can become financially independent through non-oil export
  
  
• ‘Military’s plan to rehabilitate Boko Haram members okay'
  
  
• Alleged forgery: Ekweremadu restates innocence
  
  
• Simi serenades fans with Outta My Head
  
  
• Skye Bank to assist states improve IGR
  
  
• Northern group hails Buhari on security
  
  
• Dark clouds over PDP’s August 17 convention
  
  
• Ekweremadu to deliver U.S. Constitution Day lecture
  

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• US Navy Ship Makes First China Visit Since Arbitration Ruling
  
  
• Turkish Leader Backs Death Penalty
  
  
• Storm Death Toll Jumps In Mexico
  
  
• Bode George Battles Agbaje For PDP Chair
  
  
• Resign Or Be Forced Out, 206 Reps Tell Dogara
  
  
• Army Flays Killing Of Officers In Niger
  
  
• More Job Cuts Loom As Shell, IOCs’ Debts Hit $138bn
  
  
• Rio: Umar Heads Nigeria Into Q-Finals
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