Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [09 August, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Tuesday, 9 August, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Dollar scarcity: Petrol price hike looms, marketers say
  
  
• Budget padding: Tambuwal backs Dogara, Jibrin meets police panel
  
  
• Pensioners protest unpaid arrears in Edo
  
  
• AGF meets ICPC boss over reopening of ex-govs’ graft cases
  
  
• WAI Brigade
  
  
• Mrs. Buhari didn’t go to US, says PDP
  
  
• Taliban kills 70 in Pakistan
  
  
• Obaseki’ll win Edo gov election — monarchs
  
  
• We’ve defeated Boko Haram, says Buratai
  
  
• Govs oppose Makarfi panel’s members to contest at convention
  
  
• PDP chair: S’West PDP leaders disagree over zoning

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Zoning Tears S’West PDP Leaders Apart
  
  
• Boko Haram Threatens To Attack Buhari, Buratai
  
  
• Tin-Can Island Customs Generates N130.76bn In 7 Months
  
  
• Army Has Defeated Boko Haram, Says Buratai
  
  
• Sleeping Pills Raise Bone Fracture Risk
  
  
• Oloyede To JAMB Officials: I Won’t Tolerate Indiscipline
  
  
• FCT Motorists, Residents Lament Abandoned ISEX Road
  
  
• NGE: Atiku, Ambode, Okowa, Dambazua Congratulate Egbemode
  
  
• Why I Defied Zoning, By Dokpesi
  
  
• APC To Screen 24 Aspirants For Ondo Guber Ticket
  
  
• Jonathan Urges Zambian Parties To Accept Results, Shun Violence
  
  
• Jibrin Inserted 1,000 Fraudulent Projects –Rep

VANGUARD:

• Man, 47, Defiles Neighbour’s 18-Month-Old Baby
  
  
• UNECA’s Report Vital To Economy —FG
  
  
• Contractor Diverts 60 Trucks Of Grains Meant For Borno IDPs
  
  
• Manufacturers Want FG To Re-Introduce Export Expansion Grant
  
  
• Forex Concessions For Pilgrimages
  
  
• Support Our Diversification Efforts, Okowa Task Guild Of Editors
  
  
• Pensioners Ground Activities In Benin Over Alleged Non-Payment Of Arrears
  
  
• Aisha Buhari’s US Trip, A Ruse — Ekiti PDP
  
  
• Suspected Sea Bandits Kill Three Soldiers In Bayelsa
  
  
• Countries Scramble To Sign Toriola As Coach
  
  
• OPEC Predicts Rise In Crude Oil Price Next Month
  
  
• 8yrs After Creation, N-Delta Ministry Completes Only One Project— Minister
  
  
• Ikeja Electric Gives Discounts On Outstanding Bills
  
  
• We’ve Stopped Boko Haram From Regrouping—BURATAI
  
  
• Atikulation For (G)Oing (O)N (W)Ith (O)Ne (N)Igeria
  
  
• Expert Raises Alarm Over Increasing Cases Of Asthma Among Students
  
  
• Support Our Diversification Efforts, Okowa Task Guild Of Editors

THE NATION:

• Probe begins as police get three versions of budget
  
  
• Buhari eulogises Tinubu at APC leader's son's wedding
  
  
• Militants kill three soldiers in ambush at checkpoint
  
  
• Lagos/Ogun to produce PPP Chair
  
  
• Oyo lawmaker 'killers' were robbers
  
  
• 78 year old, four others held for fraud in Ado Ekiti
  
  
• Osun deputy speaker: cash crunch has made us suffer
  
  
• Budget padding – a crime or not
  
  
• No more attacks in Jos, says Buratai
  
  
• 'Five miilion Nigerian newborn deprived of essential nutrients'
  

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE

• 12-Hour Inferno Razes Sumal Packaging Company In Ibadan (See Video)
  
  
• EFCC Arrests Blogger Over Online Publication Against Magu
  
  
• Professor Johnbull Hits ‘Black Fuel Marketers’ In Episode 4
  
  
• Our Situation Will Improve In The Next 6 Months —Ajimobi •As 1,358 Oyo Pilgrims Participate In 2016 Hajj
  
  
• Ambode Congratulates New NGE President, Egbemode
  
  
• Flood Alert: We’ll Demolish Illegal Houses, Kiosks —Oyo Govt
  
  
• PDP Chairmanship Is About Fairness To S/West —Adedoja
  

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