Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [12 February, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Sunday, February 12, 2017.

PUNCH

• Rivers rerun: Police panel hunts for N238m bribe cash balance
  
  
• Ex-FCT minister, son to forfeit 10 properties to FG
  
  
• National reserves 8,000 tonnes can’t solve food crisis — Officials
  
  
• No plan to convert Arik to national carrier — FG
  
  
• DSS brutality: Security officers, others still in custody
  
  
• Why we’ve not prosecuted importers of 661 rifles — Customs
  
  
• Lagos marathon: Kenya’s Kiptum retains title
  
  
• Ondo Assembly factions shun peace moves, stall budget presentation
  
  
• Rivers task force shuts three firms over pollution
  
  
• Family of Nigerian married to a Pole: We pleaded to see the corpse but her husband hastily sent it for cremation
  
  
• 19 poly students arrested for alleged assault in Ibadan
  
  
• Singer, Eric Arubayi, is dead
  
  
• Herdsman’s killing: Fayose vows to punish perpetrators
  
  
  THE NATION:
• Senate to hold public hearing on 2017 Budget tomorrow
  
  
• Experts predict economic recovery in 2017
  
  
• NASS won’t make laws against freedom of worship —Saraki
  
  
• Southern Kaduna: Hoodlums destroy military base foundation
  
  
• Nigerian nabbed with 90 capsules of cocaine in India airport
  
  
• Alleged $9.7m loot: Angry Kaduna slum residents curse ex-NNPC boss Yakubu
  
  
• Yobe holds peaceful council polls, records low turnout of female voters
  
  
• Niger vows to complete N400m NYSC permanent camp
  
  
• Suspected Fulani herdsmen rob travellers in Delta
  
  
• DPR seals 27 filling stations in Akwa Ibom
  
  
• Ex-Shell worker assassinated in Edo
  
  
• Tambuwal signs 2017 budget; dissolves state’s revenue board
  
  
• Lagos marathon: Bouncers maltreat journalists
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Expectations high on Buhari’s return
  
  
• $1bn Eurobond: We’ve Plenty Headroom To Borrow Further – Nwankwo
  
  
• Nigeria’s Unfairness To The Igbo, A Ticking Time Bomb – Nnia Nwodo
  
  
• Nigeria Needs $1bn Eurobond To Fund Infrastructural Projects – Adeosun
  
  
• Low Cost Houses For Enugu Rural Dwellers —Housing Corporation
  
  
• Ex-Presidential Adviser, Two Others Dump PDP For APC
  
  
• Ramat Cup Begins In Kano Today
  
  
• Oshoala Joins The China Train
  
  
• We Have Repaired Over 3,000 Victims Of Fistula, Others —Prof. Adeoye