Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [09 February, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Thursday, February 09, 2017

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• DSS brutality: Education ministry receives reports, to meet lawyer again
  
  
• EFCC arraigns Belgore, ex-minister for allegedly laundering N500m
  
  
• FG tenders cash, guns recovered from Justice Ademola
  
  
• Army arrests soldiers who brutalised crippled man in Onitsha
  
  
• FG'll open national reserve to reduce food prices
  
  
• DSS quizzes ex-CBN dep gov, CAN leaders on B'Haram video
  
  
• Shema accuses Masari of plotting to kill him
  
  
• Buhari not in danger, discusses with Osinbajo daily – Mohammed
  
  
• Film on Chibok girls premieres at Sundance Festival
  
  
• Reps kick over collapsed N'Assembly air conditioning system
  
  
• Fayose writes NSA, blames FG for prison congestion
  
  
• Punishing Kaduna killings' perpetrators will end crisis – Sanusi
  
  
• Arik suspends fligts to New York
  
  
• Pirates abduct Russians, Ukrainian
  
  
• Ecobank backs start-ups with $500,000
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Buhari’s case different from Yar’Adua’s, says Fed Govt
  
  
• Osinbajo, Sanusi meet in Aso Villa
  
  
• 2019: PDP, seven other parties discuss alliance
  
  
• Security agencies’ spokesmen: media key to military operations
  
  
• Army chief to IDPs: forget what happened in the past
  
  
• Amaechi’s claim on foreign loans incorrect, says Senate
  
  
• Police to deploy dogs in Abuja, Lagos airports
  
  
• Our lives under threat, say Ondo lawmakers
  
  
• Alleged N1b fraud: I am ready for trial, says ex-Governor Shema
  
  
• FEC approves panel’s measures to reduce food prices
  
  
• Elite must wake up to leadership responsibilities, says Emir Sanusi
  
  
• CCB: there are discrepancies in Saraki’s assets declaration forms
  
  
• SAA won’t fly to Kaduna
  
  
• Man axes mum to death over N500,000
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Don’t compare Yar’Adua’s health case to Buhari’s – FG
  
  
• CJN SAGA: Onnoghen’s fate now with Senate, not Buhari – Presidency
  
  
• FG Files Fresh Charges Against Justices Ngwuta, Ademola At CCT
  
  
• Ex-minister Nenadi Usman seeks court’s permission to treat breast cancer abroad
  
  
• NASS to increase 2017 health sector budget to N1.1trn — Tejuoso
  
  
• Soldiers Rescue 69 Children From Traffickers In Abuja
  
  
• Produce Picture Evidence Of Alleged Bribe, PDP Tells IG Panel
  
  
• Aggrieved Passengers Shut Out At Arik Air’s Corporate Hqrs
  
  
• 60 NCE Graduating Prison Inmates Eager To Practice New Skills
  
  
• AfroBasket 2017: Usman Set To Regain D’Tigers Shirt
  
  
• Kogi begins clampdown on illegal, ill-equipped schools
  
  
• Ebonyi targets 557, 000 children, 139, 000 pregnant women, others in immunization exercise
  
  
• One Killed, Houses Razed As Oil Thieves Invade Bayelsa Community
  
  
• Nursing mum allegedly cuts rival with razor blade