Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [18 February, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Saturday, February 18, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Don’t defect, PDP begs members as Appeal Court affirms Sheriff
  
  
• Manufacturers slam banks for forex racketeering
  
  
• Bad weather disrupts Osinbajo’s visit to Akure
  
  
• Buhari: Governors’ Forum plans sending delegation to UK
  
  
• MTN, LUMOS partner for mobile electricity solution
  
  
• Nigeria lacks statistical data on women, girls – Minister
  
  
• Ex-AAU VC dies at 55, Obaseki mourns
  
  
• Kwara injects N2.5bn in SMEs, budgets fresh N500m
  
  
• Residents flee community as rival cultists behead five in Rivers
  
  
• Father of five excretes 73 wraps of cocaine
  
  
• Community seeks Mimiko’s intervention in Ilaje kingship crisis
  
  
• I can’t afford a lawyer to get my husband justice – Widow of painter murdered by Rivers police
  
  
• We formed gang in prison after sharing our burglary feats – Suspected serial burglars
  
  
• N8.5bn fraud: Atewe gave N35m to Winners’ Chapel – Witness
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• PDP governors reject Sheriff …as Appeal Court sacks Makarfi
  
  
• We would go to Supreme Court —PDP Govs Forum
  
  
• Weather aborts Osinbajo’s visit to Ondo
  
  
• OGFZA to license new oil & gas free zone in Delta
  
  
• $9.7m slush funds: Ex-NNPC GMD set for trial next week
  
  
• Arms deal: Court to rule on Mohammed’s permission to travel abroad Feb 28
  
  
• Three killed, 23 injured as luxury bus plunges into Lagos river
  
  
• Police deploy tracking machines in Lagos, Rivers to check kidnapping
  
  
• Rivers rerun: Balance of N360m alleged bribe blown on cars, houses —Police source
  
  
• 2018 Poll: Group urges Ekiti voters to shun stomach infrastructure
  
  
• Eight suicide bombers, two others killed in Maiduguri botched attack
  
  
• One feared dead, two injured in Lagos tricyclists’ clashes
  
  
• Ex-JTF commander donated N35m to church, EFCC alleges
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• FG Still Subsidizing Petrol
  
  
• I didn’t say N2bn was planted in budget – Fashola
  
  
• How We Terrorised Kaduna Metropolis: 3-Man Robbery Gang
  
  
• Anambra Governorship: Why I Am In The Race –Nwibe
  
  
• Ugwuanyi Vows To Transform ESUTH Into World-Class Health Institution
  
  
• Oil Export To Rise, As Otakikpo Field Begins Production, Evacuation
  
  
• Amuwo-Odofin Demolition: Residents Lament Pain
  
  
• Aisha Buhari Gives Out Birthday Gifts, Tasks Privileged Nigerians
  
  
• Gunmen abduct Delta NUT Treasurer