Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [17 February, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Friday, February 17, 2017

PUNCH:

• Naira crashes to 516 as dollar scarcity widens
  
  
• Judge orders permanent forfeiture of Diezani’s $153m to FG
  
  
• N522bn Paris Club refund: We’re ready for probe, govs tell EFCC
  
  
• FG to include religion, ethnicity in 2018 census
  
  
• NNPC recorded N197.5bn loss in 2016 –Report
  
  
• Nigeria not ripe for N17.36tn debt forgiveness – DMO
  
  
• NSE executive urges pupils to embrace science subjects
  
  
• FG inaugurates anti-corruption crusade for schoolchildren
  
  
• BoI, Bayelsa unveil N2bn MSME fund
  
  
• FUTMinna students burn clinic, destroy libraries over student’s death
  
  
• Man, who hanged murdered wife, sentenced to death by hanging
  
  
• Scarcity of raw materials hits Imo poultry industry
  
  
• 14 die in Katsina road crashes
  
  
• Siasia gets more rivals for Bafana job
  
  
• Lagos cancels placement test resit
  
  
• Ogun to introduce road safety in school curriculum
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• CBN: we don’t allocate forex directly to bank customers
  
  
• N388.3b refund probe sets governors against Magu
  
  
• Boko Haram attacks NAF’s chopper
  
  
• NEC demands review of foreign exchange policy
  
  
• 2018 census: Fed Govt releases N775m
  
  
• N94m bullet-proof tyres for Buhari, others
  
  
• Fed Govt denies withholding Ekiti’s allocation
  
  
• Danfo crashes in ‘Strategic Transport Master Plan’ for Lagos
  
  
• Six Lagos PDP lawmakers join APC
  
  
• Kidnapped FRSC man, wife freed
  
  
• UN plans $1b humanitarian fund for Northeast
  
  
• My wife is cheating on me, says police officer
  
  
• CAN hails Ambode
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Gunmen Kill 27-Yr-Old Undergraduate, Watchman In Jigawa
  
  
• Jos Residents Protest High Electricity Tariff, Fake Metres
  
  
• We’ll Defeat Criminality —Kogi Govt
  
  
• Labour Warns Against Breach Of Industrial Peace In The Ports
  
  
• Host Community To Oil Firm: Give Us 40% Of Contracts Or Forget New Drilling Project
  
  
• Delta Govt Urged To Audit DESOPADEC’s Account
  
  
• Women Protest ‘Incessant Abduction Of Children’ In Kano
  
  
• Ogoni clean-up: FG launches soil mgt centre, engages 1,200 women
  
  
• FC IfeanyiUbah Storm Egypt With 75-Man Supporters Club
  
  
• Train crushes teenager to death in Lagos