Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [18 August, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Thursday, 18 August, 2016.

PUNCH:

• PDP convention drama: Wike, others shift poll, extend Makarfi’s term
  
  
• Avengers split over planned dialogue with FG
  
  
• I’ve found my missing certificates, says Obaseki
  
  
• No Kanu, no talk with Buhari, says IPOB
  
  
• A’court delivers judgment on Abia gov tussle today
  
  
• Suspected PDP youths set FRSC’s vehicle ablaze in A’Ibom
  
  
• Drug scarcity hits Aso Rock clinic despite N3.87bn budget
  
  
• Ondo: Lawyer advises Tinubu
  
  
• We’ll foil plan to abduct Arugba — Osun police
  
  
• Assassins kill couple, abduct three children
  
  
• ‘Three ministers told me Buhari would lose in 2015’

VANGUARD:

• Rio Olympics: Why Dream Team Lost To Germany 2 – 0 By Ka’oje
  
  
• I Won’t Represent Nigeria Again – Usman
  
  
• Nigeria Wins Olympic Silver Medal
  
  
• We’ll Prosecute Those Using Buhari’s Name To Solicit Favour — FG
  
  
• Dwindling Oil Revenue: Ebonyi Targets 1 Million Metric Ton Of Rice Per Year
  
  
• Everything I Said About Marriage I Meant It – Pastor E A Adeboye
  
  
• Polio: FG Releases N9.8bn For Polio; To Immunise 56m Children
  
  
• Lagos Unveils Mega Infrastructural Projects To Boost Security, Unlock Traffic Gridlock
  
  
• State Of Nigerian Economy Worrisome —NBA
  
  
• Oil Producing States: FG Okays 13% Derivation Fund For Lagos
  
  
• What’s In A Padded Budget?
  
  
• June 12’S Enemy Judges
  
  
• Makarfi C’ttee Stays For One Year As Police Halt PDP Convention, Lock Fayose Inside Presidential Lodge
  
  
• Police Seal Ondo APC Secretariat As Party Leadership Wades Into Crisis
  
  
• Bishops Berate Minister Over Alleged Plan To Legalise Abortion
  
  
• Be Patient With Buhari, Aregbesola Appeals To Nigerians
  
  
• Why I Named My Dog ‘Buhari’ — Trader
  
  
• Oil producing states: FG okays 13% derivation fund for Lagos
  
  
• Makarfi c’ttee stays for one year as police halt PDP convention, lock Fayose inside Presidential Lodge
  
  
• Leave Kanu alone, IPOB warns MEND

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Nigerian Pilgrims Face Execution In Saudi Arabia
  
  
• Makarfi, Fayose: APC Fuelling PDP Crisis
  
  
• FG Okays Four Oil Wells For Lagos, Approves 13% Derivation
  
  
• Kanu’ll Rather Die Than Renounce Biafra –IPOB
  
  
• EFCC Revokes Bail, Detains Udenwa Over N350m
  
  
• NLC To Oil Marketers: Don’t Increase Pump Price
  
  
• Police: Why We Sealed Off PDP Convention Centre
  
  
• Group Sues Buhari, Saraki, Dogara Over NDDC Board
  
  
• Mohammed Warns Against Use Of Buhari’s Name For Favour
  
  
• Saudi’s Law On Drug Trafficking
  
  
• Sani Decries Poor Funding Of Nigerian Missions
  

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• Kashamu’s Men Attacked Me At PDP Convention —Adebutu •There Was No Contact Between Us —Kashamu
  
  
• Uncertainty Over PDP’s Future •Again, Port Harcourt Convention Thrown Into Disarray •Police Cordon Off Venue
  
  
• Crude Price Falls Amid Output Freeze Speculation
  
  
• Don Recommends Substitutes For Post-Utme For Admission
  
  
• Nigeria Must Be Steps Ahead To Crush Boko Haram —NSA
  
  
• Why We Introduced Eminent Peoples Forum —IGP
  
  
• Running Of FCT Difficult Due To Obsolete Laws —Minister
  
  
• Polio: FG To Intensify Immunisation Of Intending Pilgrims To Saudi Arabia
  
  
• NOUN Appoints New Principal Officers
  
  
• Reasons We’re Returning Our Car Allowances To EFCC —Benue Majority Leader

THE NATION:

• Bello to Nigerians: Eschew religious, ethnic sentiments
  
  
• NiMet Predicts cloudy, rainy weather for Thursday
  
  
• Suspected Militants kidnap two children in Lagos
  
  
• FG summons meeting of Presidential Council on Tourism
  
  
• Rio Olympics: Brazil beat Honduras 6-0
  
  
• PDP Convention: Why we sealed Shark Stadium – Police
  
  
• Court restarins Sheriff from acting as PDP Chairman
  
  
• Fayose Raised The Alarm on Being Under House Arrest

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