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

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

PUNCH:

• Secret report bombshell: Cash-strapped PDP plans to sell party membership, ministerial slots
  
  
• Magu’s rejection not based on DSS report — Saraki
  
  
• Buhari may back Customs boss against Senate
  
  
• March 30 no longer feasible for budget passage — Reps
  
  
• Xenophobia: Nigerian lawmakers meet Mbeki
  
  
• Govt targets $35bn Diaspora remittances for housing development
  
  
• EFCC probes contract inflation at UNIOSUN
  
  
• ECOWAS threatens to sanction Nigeria over Dasuki
  
  
• Atiku, Ganduje not planning new party — Hanga
  
  
• Unlicensed marketers dispensing fuel at Kaduna airport – Oil marketers
  
  
• Canada donates $119.25m aid to Nigeria, others
  
  
• Nigerians should praise Senate for rejecting Magu – Ohuabunwa
  
  
• No need for change of govt in Anambra — Soludo
  
  
• No transparency in customs’ clearance process – Grimaldi MD
  
  
• Katsina residents panic over heatwave, meningitis
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Fresh N500b refund divides Governors’ Forum
  
  
• Nursing mother brutalised at police checkpoint
  
  
• PDP governors split over unity convention
  
  
• Magu: I did not return to EFCC for dirty jobs
  
  
• CBN to keep rate unchanged as MPC meets tomorrow
  
  
• Cross River Chief Judge dies at 62
  
  
• Shehu Sani to APC: Punish El-Rufai for memo on Buhari
  
  
• Army denies molestation of women in Ogoni
  
  
• EFCC planning to cook up allegations against me, Melaye alleges
  
  
• No decision to train regular recruits in Sambisa forest – Army
  
  
• EFCC slams Akwa Ibom Rep with 9-count forgery charge
  
  
• Edo awards scholarship to child of slain Afegbua
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• We Failed To Learn From Biafran War — Ekweremadu
  
  
• Obasanjo is the worst example of a military general – Brigadier-General Ikponmwen
  
  
• N-DELTA TRUCE SHUTTLE: Natives Beg Osinbajo To Visit Ndokwa
  
  
• We want Biafra, not because of bad roads, nor Igbo Presidency – MASSOB
  
  
• No life lost in Lagos NAFDAC inferno, says Fire Director
  
  
• GE Partners Tony Elumelu Foundation On Lagos Garage
  
  
• About 100,000 youths in Daura hold thanksgiving rally for Buhari
  
  
• 'Women Migrants Fearing Rape Take Contraceptives Before Journey'
  
  
• One Dies, Another Injured In Ogun Autocrash
  
  
• Police Brutalize Nursing Mother, Baby In Ekiti Over Refusal To ‘Settle’
  
  
• Kidnapped Delta DPO Found Dead
  
  
• Of the three daughters I sent to Queen’s College, only two came back home alive – Bereaved mother