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

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Friday, December 09, 2016.

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Ambode flags-off rent to-own programme, declares 500 housing units
  
  
• Senate wants presidential inauguration moved to National Assembly
  
  
• Reps reject ban on vehicle importation through land borders
  
  
• Police recruitment: Senators angry over constituents’ failure to make list
  
  
• Dasuki writes CJN, seeks accelerated hearing of bail appeal
  
  
• 2019: North Central politicians unveil new party
  
  
• India lures Nigeria with $3.85bn upfront payment for oil imports
  
  
• US offers solution to Nigeria’s recession
  
  
• Low turnout of senators stalls Magu’s screening
  
  
• Rerun polls: Rivers accuses Amaechi of importing thugs to unleash violence
  

PUNCH:

• Father, mother, son missing as boats collide
  
  
• Tiwa Savage, Teebilz unite again
  
  
• NSE, EFCC stop N20m capital market fraud
  
  
• Police hunt UK deportee for killing father
  
  
• Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia, Obla beg judge to vary bail conditions
  
  
• My CSO’s withdrawal exposing me to danger –Wike
  
  
• Ex-minister Obanikoro in fresh N450m poll cash scandal
  
  
• Accounts of Reps’ principal officers frozen, Jibrin alleges
  
  
• Rivers rerun: If they slap you, slap them, Oyegun tells Rivers APC supporters
  
  
• NERC fines TCN N47.6m for infractions
  
  
• YABATECH undergraduate disappears, parents panic
  

VANGUARD:

• Stallion Hyundai Motors Crashes Prices For Xmas
  
  
• Gov Emmanuel Flags Off 5000 Barrel Modular Refinery
  
  
• Ambode To Declare Open African Beach Soccer Nations Cup
  
  
• Falcons’ Plight: Iloh Calls For Women Uprising
  
  
• Falcons Ordeal: SERAP Drags FG,NFF To UN
  
  
• We’ll Resolve Pending Pension Issues Before End Of Year —Obaseki
  
  
• N34.5bn Bailout Fund: Banks, Labour Exonerate Osun Govt
  
  
• Okowa, Uduaghan Task Media Practitioners On Credible Reporting
  
  
• Operation Python Dance: 300 Benefit From Army’s Free Medical Treatment
  
  
• Bribery: Court Reduces Ofili-Ajumogobia, Oblas’ Bail Conditions
  
  
• NERC Fines TCN N47.6m Over Audit Reports
  
  
• 14,200 Benue Youths Living With HIV/AIDS

THE NATION:

• Kidnapped NULGE chief freed
  
  
• Captain’s Cup 2016: Veuve Clicquot, EFG hits semi finals
  
  
• NYSC member’s body to be exhumed for autopsy
  
  
• Senate seeks overhaul of NYSC scheme
  
  
• Ondo CJ’s security aides, litigants clash in court
  
  
• Rivers rerun: APC tells supporters to fight back
  
  
• Opposition leader Akufo-Addo set to become Ghana President-elect
  
  
• Federal lawmakers target N1.4tr for constituency projects
  
  
• How to deal with recessionary economies, by U.S. Envoy
  
  
• How not to grow an economy in a recession12:13 am
  
  
• Senate shelves Magu’s screening
  
  
• ‘Sheriff, Makarfi, should step down in PDP’s interest
  
  
• House of Reps’ invitation to me a witch-hunt, says Jibrin
  
  
• Withdrawal of my CSO violates due process, says Wike
  
  
• Ambode advocates strong democratic institutions for growth