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

[PressRoom]

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

PUNCH:

• FG raises panel to probe Fanta, Sprite content
  
  
• Justice Ngwuta earned £50,000, $196,000, N119m — Chief Registrar
  
  
• Magu can serve indefinitely, Presidential committee tells Buhari
  
  
• Refusal to wear uniform: NBA chief, SAN flay Ali as Senate turns back Customs CG
  
  
• Hayatou accepts defeat, victorious Ahmad promises change
  
  
• El-Rufai studying for PhD in Holland —Varsity
  
  
• CBN injects fresh $100m into forex market
  
  
• First Bank seeks long-term action for agric sector
  
  
• Two currency counterfeiters, 24 others nabbed in Borno
  
  
• Ayade weeps over plight of Bakassi returnees
  
  
• FG rules out Grade II education
  
  
• Police arrest plumber for raping daughters
  
  
• 85-year-old woman abandoned by children down with stroke
  
  
• 10 killed, one injured in Edo auto crash
  
  
• Two teachers defiled six-year-old pupil –Police
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Fayose: Obasanjo father of corruption
  
  
• Buhari to CBN: release N500b Paris Club cash
  
  
• Presidency awaits letter from Senate on Magu’s rejection
  
  
• Budget: Finance minister asks NAFDAC to refund N2.8b
  
  
• Nigeria spends $3.5b yearly on steel importation
  
  
• Alleged $9.7m gift: Court remands Yakubu in prison
  
  
• Govt to raise $1b from asset
  
  
• Lagos eyes 27,500 jobs in new environmental policy
  
  
• N963.7m subsidy fraud: Oil marketer gets 10 years jail
  
  
• Senate turns back Customs CG Ali over uniform
  
  
• Etisalat, lenders disagree over $1.2b loan settlement terms
  
  
• Lagos asks Queens College to delay resumption
  
  
• JAMB: awaiting result candidates can write UTME
  
  
• Court nullifies removal of OGSIEC chairman, members
  
  
• Bayelsa’s no-nonsense judge takes a bow
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Lai Mohammed Cautioned Over Frequent Changes At NTDC
  
  
• Centenary City Project: Reps Call For Trial Of Anyim, Ozobia, Others
  
  
• Ngwuta Got N45m As Salary In 5 Yrs, Spent N313m In 9 Months —FG
  
  
• Fire Kills 3 In Konduga IDPs Camp
  
  
• Unions Kick As Aero Contractors Sacks 60% Workforce
  
  
• IFC Demands Details Of FG’s Economic Recovery Plan
  
  
• SERAP Condemns Magu’s Rejection
  
  
• Money Laundering: Judge Withdraws From Fani-Kayode’s Trial
  
  
• Ex-Militants Laud Usani Over N-Delta Devt
  
  
• Anambra 2017: Obiano Has Disappointed, Should Step Aside — Uzoh
  
  
• Shanachie Signs Afrobeat Act, Rayce