Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [10 May, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Wednesday, May 10, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Enugu Assembly okays life pension for ex-govs, deputies
  
  
• $5bn fraud: Senate rejects withdrawal of petition against Chevron
  
  
• We’ll rely on third party information on Buhari’s health – Spokesman
  
  
• Magu’s visit to Rivers CJ an honest gesture – EFCC
  
  
• 66 Kirikiri prison inmates get freedom
  
  
• NAPTIP laments dwindling Ejigbo population
  
  
• Benin, Niger pay N48.84bn to Nigeria for power
  
  
• FG seeks $5.2bn from World Bank for electricity
  
  
• Court sentences 15-year-old killer herdsman to death for murder
  
  
• C’River senator, Enoh, dumps PDP for APC
  
  
• Lagos to criminalise power theft
  
  
• Rivers rerun: Court declares police special panel illegal
  
  
• Oil spillage: Bayelsa community sues Eni in Italy
  
  
• Bayelsa demands establishment of A’court in Yenagoa
  
  
• Withdraw troops, Ondo community residents beg Buhari, Akeredolu
  
  
• Attacked assistant police commissioner dies in Delta
  
  
• SARS officers rob UNILAG student of school fees
  
  
• Wife wants 14-year-old marriage dissolved over excessive sex

THE NATION:

• Chibok community to govt: force girls out of terrorists’ den
  
  
• Alleged N190m fraud: Court discharges Oronsaye
  
  
• National Assembly raises budget by N143b
  
  
• Fed Govt to stop sugar import soon
  
  
• ‘N11b fuel theft’: Court orders DSS to produce Ubah
  
  
• Imo, Osun, Oyo top JAMB UTME exam applicants
  
  
• $43m Ikoyi cash: NIA, NSA, CBN, EFCC shun Reps’ probe
  
  
• Anglican Synod backs Ambode for new term
  
  
• House passes contentious NLNG Bill
  
  
• Ogun assures Ifo, Arigbajo residents of potable water
  
  
• No chieftaincy titles for me while in office, says Okowa
  
  
• Suspected smuggler killed in clash with Customs at Ogun
  
  
• Rivers CJ frees 49 prisoners
  
  
• PR chiefs to Nigerians: don’t believe everything online
  
  
• Man gets death sentence for killing father
  
  
• NI5b trust fund for Ondo
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• External reserve drops by $50m as .as Naira rises to N383/$
  
  
• Uproar, as Buhari tags VP ‘co-ordinator’ in letter to NASS
  
  
• Boko Haram: Families of 800 slain soldiers get N3bn benefits
  
  
• FG inaugurates Governing Councils of 23 varsities
  
  
• Shell not relocating operational base from P-Harcourt —Senate
  
  
• FG Showing Political Will To Pay Construction Industry N600bn Debt -JBN MD
  
  
• Agip Plans 150,000 Bpd Refinery For Nigeria
  
  
• Alleged N190m fraud: Court discharges ex-HoS, Oronsaye
  
  
• Ohanaeze worries over exclusion of S-East in railway projects
  
  
• Deepening Worry Over Relocation Of Computer Village To Katangowa
  
  
• MainOne Pledges Massive Investment In Ogun, Sites Data Centre In Abeokuta
  
  
• Sona Agro Grows Production Capacity To 200 Tonnes Per Day
  
  
• Sokoto NLC Seeks N25,000 Monthly Pensions
  
  
• Iheanacho, Man City Set To Part Ways
  
  
• Female Soldier Beats Policewoman Comatose In Lagos