Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [14 August, 2016]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Sunday, 14 August, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Boko Haram: Don’t lose focus, experts advise FG
  
  
• Illegal arms: Court remands 57 in Niger prison
  
  
• PDP leaders shun Sheriff, set for convention
  
  
• Residents of riverine communities shun flood alert
  
  
• Police arrest housewife for breaking arm, leg of stepson
  
  
• PDP chair: Obey elders, step down, George tells Agbaje
  
  
• Give Muslims fair treatment, Sultan advises FG, states
  
  
• Ugwuanyi sacks 16 council secretaries
  
  
• Ondo primary: Youths urge Tinubu to be neutral
  
  
• Nigerians arrested for drug trafficking not our members — MFM
  
  
• My attack politically motivated, says Ekiti PDP spokesman

VANGUARD:

• I Took To Music After I Went Blind- Yekini, Teacher Of Award Winning Cobhams Asuquo
  
  
• Pastor Adeboye Prays For His Enemies
  
  
• In Defense Of Buhari: Is This The Change We Voted For? Yes, It Is!
  
  
• Police Arrest Woman For ‘Breaking’ Five-Yr-Old Stepson’s Legs, Arms’
  
  
• PDP Convention: Northern Leaders Set Up Screening Committee
  
  
• Ize-Iyamu Will Give Edo Effective Governance — Senator Urhoghide
  
  
• Some Music Producers Don’t Even Have A Car, K-Solo Laments
  
  
• Eko Atlantic City, Energy City, Dangote Refinery: Ambode’s Eyes On Lagos’ Future
  
  
• EDO POLL: Obaseki’s Neutrality Gives Him Edge Over Any Other Candidate — Senator Uzamere
  
  
• 2016 Election: Odubu, Ex-PDP Leaders Rally Round Obaseki
  
  
• Niger-Deltans Are Their Own Worst Enemies – Sandys, Author In His 70s

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Igbo Leaders Defy Supreme Court, Still Disinherit Women
  
  
• We’ll Soon Launch Air Strikes Against Militants – CAS
  
  
• Budget Padding: I’m Not Above The Law – Dogara
  
  
• Theologians To Christian Clerics: Stop Going To Buhari For Selfish Reasons
  
  
• Illegal Oil Wells: Lagos Evicts Residents, Seals Off Houses
  
  
• Bleaching Cream Causes Kidney Failure
  
  
• Import Kolanut, Get Death sentence, South Govt Tells Pilgrims

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• 60 Arraigned Over Military/Civilians Clash In Niger

• Kidnapping: Bello, AIG Read Riot Act

• PDP Chairmanship: Yoruba Youths Support Adeniran

• We’ve Taken Measures To Ensure Hitch-Free Oil Exploration In Lake Chad —Army

• Govts Must Give Muslims Their Due In Nigeria —Sultan

• Police Parade Rape Syndicate In Taraba

• Gunmen Attack Ekiti PDP Spokesman

• Alleged Corruption: Magu Places EFCC Operatives Under Surveillance

• DOGARA MOVING MONEY FROM HOUSE ACCOUNT, JIBRIN ALLEGES

THE NATION:

• Buhari salutes victorious Olympic soccer team
  
  
• Senior Presidential aide dies
  
  
• Stop linking Jonathan to avengers – Ex President's kinsmen
  
  
• Mertesacker appointed new Arsenal captain
  
  
• Navy arrests two over attacks on Chevron facilities
  
  
• Budget Padding: Dogara makes U-Turn, Says 'I Am Not Above The Law'
  
  
• Sultan: Hijab is a right, not privilege for Muslims
  
  
• NPA's N13.595b trapped in three banks, TSA Account
  
  
• Police arrest housewife in Ogun for fracturing child's arm, legs