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

[PressRoom]

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

PUNCH:

• Buhari’s return: Major cabinet shake-up likely this week
  
  
• We are still after corrupt ex-govs — EFCC
  
  
• Xenophobia: South Africans believe Nigerian men are taking their women –Dabiri-Erewa
  
  
• Smuggled rifles: Customs quizzes 15 senior officers
  
  
• Maikori in cell with herdsmen, to appear in court Monday
  
  
• GDP: Govt targets N21tn from agriculture
  
  
• FG to review 28 tax items
  
  
• Petroleum ministry faces $8bn judgment liability
  
  
• Airport closure: NRC transport passengers in special coaches
  
  
• NDLEA arrests Saudi-bound grandmother with 1.6kg cocaine
  
  
• PDP workers get 25% salary
  
  
• Gen. Adebayo helped to stabilise Nigeria during Civil War – Jemibewon
  
  
• My children hate politics — Kofoworola Bucknor-Akerele
  
  
• Dad was very proud when I was declared governor — Adeyinka Adebayo’s son
  
  
• Most senators have not paid the price for democracy – Sani
  
  
• Four children drown in Abuja river
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Buhari has anaemia, says professor of medicine
  
  
• ‘Only Buhari’s doctors can confirm his ailment’
  
  
• Ex-NNPC GMD rebuffs EFCC over $9.7m donors’ list
  
  
• Nigeria’s forex reserves hit $30b
  
  
• Nigerian banks’ credit report poorest worldwide
  
  
• REC vacancies in 33 states can’t delay 2019 elections, says INEC
  
  
• S/West PDP threatens Makarfi, Sheriff peace deal
  
  
• NDLEA arrests 57-year-old woman with cocaine
  
  
• Suspected Fulani herdsmen kill Benue monarch, nine others
  
  
• Ogbemudia for burial on Friday
  
  
• Ogun doctor stabs mother to death
  
  
• SEC ban: Heritage Capital sets records straight
  
  
• BoI trains youths on tomato processing
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Land Grabbers Attack 120 Lagos Residents
  
  
• Gunmen Abduct Ekiti Govt Official In Edo, Demand N20m Ransom
  
  
• Recession: Economy Will Bounce Back If FG Implements 80% Of 2017 Budget — Prof. Ekpo
  
  
• Ceremony Brings Sheriff, PDP Traducers Under Same Roof
  
  
• Emefiele, CBN GOV, Warns ‘We Will Ensure Forex Speculators Lose Money’
  
  
• Ondo Oil Communities Cry Out Over Alleged Marginalisation
  
  
• Ogbemudia To Get State Burial — Edo Govt
  
  
• Obasanjo Kicks Against Politicisation Of Basic Amenities, Appointments
  
  
• How We Formed PDP Military Wing — IBB
  
  
• The Concert: Fela Music Can Never Die — Omawumi
  
  
• I Arranged Armed Gang To Rob My Brother For Cheating Me On Family Land He Sold – Generator Repairer