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

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

PUNCH:

• 2019: 25 political parties demand scrapping of SIECs
  
  
• Ojukwu would’ve fought for Kanu’s release –MASSOB
  
  
• Italy deports 37 Nigerians
  
  
• Osinbajo, a running mate turned friend – Buhari
  
  
• FG to raise N213.7bn Treasury bills next week
  
  
• Oil output: FG abandons four-million-barrel target
  
  
• Nigeria loses $1.5bn yearly to maternal deaths – UNFPA
  
  
• FG congratulates women, promises protection against violence
  
  
• Xenophobic attacks: Senate, House fight over S’African trip
  
  
• Scholarship scam: Kano anti-graft commission detains Kwankwaso’s commissioner
  
  
• Osun declares curfew as 10 die in Ife communal clash
  
  
• Corrupt judges will go to hell – Kwara CJ
  
  
• Assemblies of God: ‘Police should enforce S’Court judgment’
  
  
• Lagos judges are overworked, says CJ
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• 10 feared dead in Ile Ife clash
  
  
• FEC okays $470m, N186m for FCT water projects
  
  
• Customs shuns Senate’s request on car import duty payment
  
  
• FG frustrating my plans for Oshodi-Airport Road – Ambode
  
  
• Elder statesman Robert Adeyinka Adebayo dies at 88
  
  
• Brutalised corps member redeployed to Anambra
  
  
• N5 billion fake tyres: Chinese taken to court
  
  
• NLC to Fed Govt: workers’ patience running out on wage review
  
  
• Recession will end before December, says Fed Govt
  
  
• Students’ Union leaders fight over N1m ‘bribe’
  
  
• Nigerians with valid visa free to travel to U.S., says Embassy
  
  
• Makarfi angry with Dickson over convention report
  
  
• APC won’t succeed me in 2018, says Fayose
  
  
• Ailing actor Prince James Uche is dead
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• NLNG Has Paid $20.5bn To FG Since 2016 —MD
  
  
• Non-Payment Of N541bn Loan: Three Banks Take Over Etisalat Nigeria
  
  
• Nigeria Needs 17m Houses To Address Deficit—Fashola
  
  
• Lack Of Electricity Threatens Ibom Specialty Hospital
  
  
• Fayose, Fayemi, Afenifere, Monarchs, Others Mourn Gen. Adebayo
  
  
• NURTW Member Allegedly Stabs Vice Chairman Over Girlfriend
  
  
• Code Lagos: Lagos Partners Old Students’ Associations
  
  
• LASPOTECH Produces Drones To Boost Lagos Security
  
  
• Barcelona Vs PSG: Barcelona Completed The Greatest Comeback In History…
  
  
• Army To Probe Extra-Judicial Killing Of IPOB, MASSOB Members
  
  
• Govt Should Make It Easier For People To Adopt Legitimately— Barr Collins Okeke
  
  
• No Payment Made To Orji Uzor Kalu From Govt Account — WITNESS
  
  
• Orji, Ex-MILAD, Defects To APC In Enugu
  
  
• A-Ibom Govt Seeks World Bank Assistance For Syringe Manufacturing Plant