Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [16 November, 2016]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Wednesday, November, 16, 2016

PUNCH:

• US senator pushes to abolish electoral college after Trump win
  
  
• APC giving poisoned bread to Ondo people –Jegede
  
  
• Ogun man arrested for killing stepdaughter for rituals
  
  
• What recession means to ordinary Nigerians
  
  
• Upscale Manhattan apartment complex drops Trump name
  
  
• Crisis looms as prices of drugs increase by 150%
  
  
• Demand for automobiles drops by 37.5% – NADDC
  
  
• Dasuki gave Oronsaye N50m cash, breached money laundering law – Witness
  
  
• Sambo Dasuki rejected FG’s offer to attend dad’s burial – Danbazau

VANGUARD:

• Abia Community Threatens Reprisals Over Fulani Herdsmen’s Attack
  
  
• Kudirat’s Murder: Family Warns Al-Mustapha
  
  
• Militancy: NDRPP Assures On Recovery Of Arms, End To Illegal Oil Bunkering
  
  
• Basketball: FIBA Suspends Brazil For Failing To Restructure, Among Others
  
  
• How Corrupt Assistant Police Commissioner Was Allegedly Caught With N2.7m Bribe
  
  
• JTF Foils Attempt To Vandalise Oil Facilities In Bayelsa
  
  
• Why We Sacked Randy Lecturer— UNIOSUN 4:12 AMPDP ‘Ll Probe Corrupt APC Leaders In 2019 – Sen Achonu
  
  
• Kidnapping: Lagos Embarks On Aggressive Riverine Policing
  
  
• NPDC, SEPLAT Partner In Safe Motherhood Programme
  
  
• Future Is Bright With Iheanacho, Iwobi — Ikpeba
  
  
• Nigeria Loses $2.4bn To Malaria Annually— FG, Dangote Foundation
  
  
• Under-Funding JV Cash Calls Now $2.5bn- Baru
  
  
• Kaduna Villages Invasion Death Toll Hits 43
  
  
• 3 Killed As Communities Clash In Ebonyi
  
  
• Late Sultan Was A Voice For Peace— Buhari
  
  
• Sports Editors Guild Hails Falode’s Appointment

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Fashola, Ogiemwonyi to deliver UNIBEN convocation/founders’ day lecture
  
  
• Protest: Shiites demand Zakzaky’s release
  
  
• 10,674 Nigerians studying in US
  
  
• 250 petitions trail Buhari’s ambassadorial nominees
  
  
• FG exits JV contracts in January as debts hit $8.5bn
  
  
• Protesters storm N’ Assembly, want Senate scrapped
  
  
• Militants blow up Agip, Oando, Shell trunk lines
  
  
• Obiano flags off N1.4trn housing project in Awka
  
  
• Wike ends amnesty, declares war on cultists, kidnappers
  
  
• Buhari, Saraki, Kalu, Tambuwal, others mourn as Sultan Dasuki is buried
  
  
• IG justifies killing of Shiite members

THE NATION:

• Senate rejects Buhari’s would-be envoys list
  
  
• Charly Boy, others protest secrecy of National Assembly’s budget
  
  
• Dignitaries wave final bye to Sultan Dasuki
  
  
• NNPC’s cash calls debit hits $2.5b
  
  
• Boko Haram kills another army officer in ambush
  
  
• ‘CBN, SEC, PTDF, others didn’t remit N450b’
  
  
• Saraki, Dogara, others meet over MTEF, 2017 budget
  
  
• Senate probes Customs’s declining revenue profile
  
  
• USAID partners Chi Farms to empower farmers
  
  
• ASUU adamant as Fed Govt urges halt to strike
  
  
• Pension fund investment: Four states provide land for housing
  
  
• Heritage Bank not in distress, says CBN