Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [12 October, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Wednesday, October, 12, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Driver absconds with N7.2m fuel, girlfriend, guarantor remanded
  
  
• Judges’ arrest: NJC meeting inconclusive, to take position Wednesday
  
  
• Family of abducted sick Lagos schoolboy pays N1m ransom
  
  
• Suspect defecates in court to evade trial in Edo
  
  
• Budget minister forgets Nigeria’s debt profile
  
  
• Customs comb Lagos markets for smuggled rice
  
  
• Alleged sex scandal: House clears three Reps of misconduct
  
  
• Return Anambra’s N43bn, Obiano tells Buhari
  
  
• AGF sends names of six judges to DSS for probe
  

VANGUARD:

• Algeria Coach Admits Eagles Will Be Difficult
  
  
• Ondo: How Oke’s Defection Is Affecting Dynamics
  
  
• Video: Buhari Does Not Know A Bag Of Rice Costs N20,000 – Reno
  
  
• President Buhari Will Not Spare Corrupt Associates- Osinbajo
  
  
• APC Chieftain Remanded In Prison Custody Over Alleged N36m Fraud
  
  
• Sports Must Be Distinct, Removed From The Ministry — Amiesimaka
  
  
• Enugu Assembly Reverses Self On Recruitment Of 2,000 Teachers
  
  
• Don’t Slash Corps Members’ Allowances
  
  
• Eagles Have Landed — Kalu
  
  
• Why Benue People Are Opposed To Open Grazing — Rep Tarkighir
  
  
• Man, 60, Commits Suicide Over Inability To Care For Family
  
  
• Attempt To Arrest Me Outrageous — Dikko
  

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Osinbajo: Accountability, Panacea For Economic Prosperity
  
  
• Persistent Official, Parallel Rates’ Gap Threatens FX Liberalisation
  
  
• NASS Confirms Ndoma-Egba, Ekere As NDDC Chairman, MD
  
  
• Buhari Wants Deziani, Associates Prosecuted For Oil Bunkering
  
  
• Kalu Writes Buhari, Kicks Against Sale Of Assets
  
  
• Corruption Allegation: NJC Decides Judges’ Fate Today
  
  
• Sexual Misconduct: House Clears Lawmakers
  

THE NATION:

• DSS finds Rolls Royce in judge’s 15 cars fleet12:10 am
  
  
• Obasanjo denied Lagos special status, says Akiolu12:09 am
  
  
• Kidnappers free Lagos teachers, pupils12:08 am
  
  
• PDP, APC trade words on alleged plot to rig Ondo poll12:07 am
  
  
• APC youths to Oyegun: you betrayed our confidence12:06 am
  
  
• Budget funding our biggest challenge, says FIRS12:06 am
  
  
• NCC: Visafone applied for shares transfer, not licence12:05 am
  
  
• Attorney-General justifies arrest of judges12:05 am
  
  
• European bank, UBA seal N20.89b deal12:05 am
  
  
• Much ado about DSS arrest of some judges/justices12:04 am
  
  
• Sagay: corrupt judges should suffer fate of ordinary men12:04 am
  
  
• CBN: we’re committed to exchange rate stability12:04 am
  
  
• Court orders police to pay retiree N5.7m, 10% pension benefits12:04 am
  
  
• Etisalat rolls out 4G LTE services12:04 am
  
  
• Our Girls; A National Sacrifice: Suspend NASS for 180 days!!12:03 am
  
  
• Launching that railway is an insult, Femi Kuti attacks Buhari