Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [17 August, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Wednesday, 17a August, 2016.

PUNCH:

• My message not for everybody — Adeboye
  
  
• Gunmen abduct uncle of rape victim in A’Ibom
  
  
• Budget padding: DSS still at Appropriation Office 18 days after
  
  
• Adamawa doctor arrested for removing patient’s kidney
  
  
• $12m fraud: EFCC probes Elechi, arrests ex-commissioner
  
  
• Robbers attack CBN bullion van, kill two policemen
  
  
• Okagbare out of 200m final
  
  
• Govt to seize unlicenced taxis in Lagos
  
  
• No TETFUND grants for private varsities, FG insists
  
  
• Edo gov: I’m PDP’s candidate, says Sheriff’s man
  
  
• Why Nigeria didn’t achieve much result – Buhari

VANGUARD:

• Sack Sports Minister Dalung
  
  
• Flood Alert: Bayelsa Steps Up Drainage Clearing
  
  
• CISLAC Flays Move To Regulate CSOs
  
  
• Group Alleges N11bn Fraud In Kogi, Petitions Buhari, EFCC
  
  
• Enugu Approves School Feeding For Pupils In Primary
  
  
• Fight Harmful Practices With August Meeting, Ikpeazu’s Wife Urges Women
  
  
• Abandoned N4bn Power Project: EFCC Detains Former Ebonyi Commissioner
  
  
• Alleged Labour Sins: Imo Govt Tackles NLC
  
  
• Group To Gov Okowa: Don’t Kill DESOPADEC
  
  
• PDP: Perhaps A New Beginning
  
  
• N2bn Debt: Prevail On DHQ To Pay Us, Houseboat Owners Beg Buhari
  
  
• Trader Arrested For Naming Pet Dog ‘Buhari’
  
  
• Crime Fighting: Vanguard’s Publisher Lauds Lagos State Police Command
  
  
• Jang Blasts Gov Lalong Over EFCC Comments
  
  
• I’m Not The Evil Many Think I Am, Says IBB @ 75
  
  
• Bandwidth Restrictions: How Govt’s Own Policy Is Undermining Digital Inclusion
  
  
• Crisis: Ojukwu Varsity Teachers Divided On VC’s Tenure Elongation

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• PDP CONVENTION: ANXIETY OVER DEFT MOVES FOR ANOINTED CHAIRMANSHIP CANDIDATE
  
  
• We Are Ready For PDP Convention —Police
  
  
• Properties Worth Millions Of Naira Destroyed In Lagos Inferno
  
  
• Alleged Killing Of Chibok Girls In Air Strikes Mere Propaganda By Dying Sect —Air Force
  
  
• PDP BoT Endorses National Convention, Lauds Wike
  
  
• PDP Convention: We Are Yet To Get Abuja Court Order —INEC
  
  
• Buhari, Atiku, Niger Gov Congratulate IBB At 75

THE NATION:

• NAF denies killing of Chibok girls, releases video
  
  
• Buhari greets IBB at 75
  
  
• PDP Convention: Court warns INEC against participation
  
  
• Stop seeking cheap popularity, group tells Salkida, others'
  
  
• FG earmarks N3b for varsity research
  
  
• Traditional worshippers seek national day recognition, others
  
  
• Abused girl gets new family
  
  
• CBN raises BDCs weekly dollar sales to $50, 000
  
  
• Babangida favours part-time legislature
  
  
• Four die in Ogun after drinking ogogoro
  
  
• I want to go home, says rescued Chibok girl
  
  
• Court remands four over alleged murder of Oyo lawmaker Aremu
  

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Port Harcourt Judgement Is A Hoax –Sheriff
  
  
• Accidental Discharge: I Nearly Killed My Wife –IBB
  
  
• CBN Approves Single Digit Lending Rate For Agric, Manufacturing
  
  
• Port Harcourt Shut Down For PDP Convention
  
  
• I’m Not Evil Genius, Says IBB
  
  
• Petrol Mixed With Ethanol In Circulation Soon –NNPC
  
  
• A Dead Person Is Conscious For Some Minutes –Scientists
  
  
• Court Remands Ex-Diamond Bank Manager Over N24m Fraud
  
  
• Dickson Signs Revenue Court Bill Into Law
  
  
• Clark: Six Coastal States To Dialogue On Militancy In Niger Delta
  
  
• Okowa Angry Over Misappropriation Of N50m Voted For Ibru’s Burial
  
  
• Jonathan Too Refined To Sponsor Militants, Says Kinsmen

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