Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [15 December, 2016]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Thursday, December 15, 2016.

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Funds diversion: Senate demands SGF’s resignation, prosecution
  
  
• Buhari to issue executive orders for budget execution
  
  
• NNPC loses N1.5trn oil revenue to attacks
  
  
• NLNG delivers $2m engineering lab to UNIMAID
  
  
• Rivers rerun: Wike accuses four APC governors of sponsoring violence
  
  
• Old people’s home of hunger, sickness
  
  
• Only court will resolve PDP crisis –PDP
  
  
• We must end non-budget implementation –Dogara
  
  
• $15m probe: Buhari is targeting Jonathan –CSO
  
  
• FIRS shuts firms over N458m tax debts
  
  
• Shettima to Police: Prosecute, jail officials arrested over IDPs’ foods

PUNCH:

• N4.7bn alleged fraud: EFCC re-arraigns Ladoja eight years after
  
  
• Police parade suspected snatchers of Rivers poll materials
  
  
• SANs reject FG’s briefs to prosecute accused judges
  
  
• Military rescues 605 women, children from Sambisa Forest
  
  
• Lagos replaces embattled HoS, Ademola
  
  
• How Buhari shut down N’Assembly for 2017 budget
  
  
• Jammeh must go when term ends – UN
  
  
• I’ll pay retirees before Dec. 31 – Masari
  
  
• IDPs: Shettima seeks urgent trial of suspected rice thieves
  
  
• B’Haram: US donates fresh $92m to displaced persons

VANGUARD:

• INSECURITY: One Third Of Health Facilities In N/East Nigeria Destroyed— WHO
  
  
• Makarfi Frustrating Reconciliation In PDP —Sheriff
  
  
• Imo Lawmakers Move To Sack TC Chairmen
  
  
• Rivers Re-Run (Audio): Wike Caught Allegedly Making Calls To INEC Officials To Rig Election
  
  
• Rivers Re-Run: Govs Of Bauchi, Benue, Kanu, Plateau Donated N1b Each For Rigging – Wike
  
  
• Nigerian Athletes To Miss 2017 IAAF World Championships
  
  
• S-East Govs Committed To Security, Economic Devt— Nnaji
  
  
• Mikel Ready To Leave Chelsea, Siasia Reveals
  
  
• Sports Development: Kasunmu Calls For Corporate Support
  
  
• Uyo Church Collapse: Panel Of Enquiry To Commence Work Immediately
  
  
• $1.092bN Malabu Oil Deal: Adoke Writes NASS
  
  
• Biafra: IPOB Commends Ekwueme, Nwabueze, Others
  
  
• Fani-Kayode: Court Adjourns Case Till Jan
  
  
• LEKKI GARDENS BUILDING COLLAPSE: Contractors, Others For Prosecution
  
  
• Amuka Tasks Media Owners On Journalists’ Welfare
  
  
• 2 Die As Car Crashes Into Building In Ekiti

THE NATION:

• N7.298tr budget: DisCos, contractors, others to smile
  
  
• Mum delivered of baby with two heads
  
  
• Alleged contract scam: Senate seeks SGF’s sack
  
  
• Uyo: 26 dead, 218 injured, says govt
  
  
• Xmas: Ayade subsidises rice, tomatoes prices by 40 %
  
  
• EFCC re-arraigns Ladoja for allegedly converting N4.7b
  
  
• Malabu oil block: Obasanjo’s govt approved $209m payment into escrow account, says Adoke
  
  
• ‘How accounts with Jonathan’s wife’s $15.5m were opened’
  
  
• Senator Tinubu’s Bill on special status for Lagos gets backing
  
  
• CBN to Nigerians: stop investing in MMM
  
  
• Our plans with N7.298tr ‘Budget of Recovery and Growth’, by Buhari
  
  
• ‘N2.1b debt’: Obat Oil seeks settlement with Skye Bank
  
  
• Fani-Kayode, Nenadi get new trial dates
  
  
• Ill-health stalls Fani-Kayode’s trial
  
  
• PDP crisis: I‘m ready for reconciliation, says Sheriff
  
  
• Rivers rerun: Five paraded for ‘snatching’ INEC materials