Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [19 February, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Sunday, February 19, 2017.

PUNCH:

• FG disbands arms probe panel
  
  
• Osinbajo signs seven bills into law
  
  
• Muslims organise special prayers for Buhari’s health
  
  
• Buhari did not route official trips to see doctors, says Presidency
  
  
• South Africans attack Nigerian businesses, says Union
  
  
• No need to panic over forex policy – Emefiele
  
  
• A’Ibom begins trail run of first pencil factory
  
  
• Rolls-Royce loses $5.7bn to corruption in Nigeria, others
  
  
• Refineries performed below 15% in 2016 — NNPC
  
  
• Banks lose N75bn revenue to TSA in 16 months
  
  
• Police arrest 15 Imo undergraduates
  
  
• FG releases seized Ekiti budget fund
  
  
• Payroll fraud in Bayelsa massive, says Dickson
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Magu: Plot to block Senate confirmation thickens
  
  
• High food prices: FG opens grain reserves in two weeks
  
  
• Police release Chocolate City owner Audu Maikori on bail
  
  
• Paucity of fund not major challenge to completion of road projects – Fashola
  
  
• Thousands of youths rally in Buhari’s support
  
  
• APC registers one million in South East
  
  
• Gunmen abduct ex-gov Suswan’s CSO
  
  
• Workers angry with Fayose over new cars for politicians
  
  
• Save us from land grabbers, Ogun community begs Amosun, IGP
  
  
• Quack surveyors distorting Oyo master plan, NIS raises alarm
  
  
• Woman accidentally kills baby by giving him kerosine to drink
  
  
• Man kills wife, buries corpse in shallow grave
  
  
• 6 DROWN IN BENUE AS BOAT CAPSIZES
  
  
• EFE AMBROSE Eyes fresh start with Blackburn
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• We are heading for Supreme Court — Makarfi group
  
  
• Shettima commissions N1.68 b Base Camps for humanitarian workers in Borno
  
  
• ECOWAS Presses For Abolition Of Land Use Act In West Africa
  
  
• Cattle Rustlers Invade Zamfara, Kill Dozens
  
  
• Onuesoke calls for the scrapping of AMCON
  
  
• Enugu NASSI Elects Officials
  
  
• NIMASA Trains Over 2,500 Nigerians In Seafaring
  
  
• Community resists Amosun’s demolition plot as Commissioner escapes mob by whiskers
  
  
• Urhobo Wish Buhari Quick Recovery
  
  
• NUJ Advises Niger State Government Not To Discriminate In Its Education Policy
  
  
• Singer, Sandra Ifudu In Trouble For Calling Men “Useless”
  
  
• Agbor College Students Begin NYSC