Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [19 November, 2016]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Saturday, November 19, 2016

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Tension in Ondo
  
  
• Buhari: Oil sector woes caused recession
  
  
• Nnamdi Kanu pledges allegiance to Trump
  
  
• OTODO GBAME ‘WAR’: BLOOD, TEARS, AS BODIES FLOAT IN WATER, BURIED IN SECRET GRAVES
  
  
• Kidnappers on the rampage
  
  
• President signs eight bills into law
  
  
• FG kicks as Singapore executes Nigerian drug suspect
  
  
• Nigeria’s structure, responsible for economic crisis –Ekweremadu

PUNCH:

• A’Court dashes Jegede’s hope, adjourns judgment indefinitely
  
  
• Six die in Maiduguri suicide attacks
  
  
• N4.7bn fraud: EFCC calls for arrest warrant against Ladoja
  
  
• I’ve no regrets, says Al-Mustapha
  
  
• Unclaimed corpses litter mortuaries in Nigerian hospitals
  
  
• Total blackout imminent as GENCOs, DISCOs battle N400bn debt
  
  
• Buhari signs eight bills into law
  
  
• Atiku appeals to ASUU to shelve strike
  
  
• Doctors begin indefinite strike over pay in Bayelsa
  
  
• Nigeria has deficit of 248,572 doctors – Expert
  
  
• With 2.6kg of hemp, Nigerian meets death in Singapore
  
  
• Focus on agriculture to avert famine, says Oyedepo
  
  
• I am ready for a new husband –KSB
  
  
• Kwara prison officials beat six inmates to death
  
  
• Court remands four for land grabbing, illegal firearms possession
  
  
• We targeted politicians who stole money – Hajia, robbers’ informant
  
  
• Gunmen kidnap Nasarawa commissioner’s two wives
  
  
• Account for 300 killed Shi’ites, US tells FG
  
  
• Edo: Police kill two suspects in failed robbery
  
  
• I’m perfectly fine now –Leo Mezie
  
  
• P’Harcourt refinery set to commence aviation fuel production
  
  
• Develop new data collection methods, Udoma tells statisticians
  
  
  THE NATION:

• EFCC arrests two SON directors for alleged N1.3bn fraud
  
  
• No land for grazing in Benue, Ortom insists
  
  
• Sack of 23 FUNAAB staff is vindictive, malicious – NLC
  
  
• NDLEA destroys 30,992kgs of cannabis in Osun
  
  
• Maritime ‘ll advance our global economic interest —NIMASA DG
  
  
• Farmcrowdy introduces digital agriculture
  
  
• Opinion poll tips Oke to win
  
  
• Jonathan’s ex-aide bought Abuja house with N650m – witness
  
  
• Six dead, several injured in Maiduguri multiple explosions
  
  VANGUARD
  

• State of the nation: Everyone benefited from corruption – Bolaji Akinyemi
  
  
• Gov Ugwuanyi calls for revival of coal mines
  
  
• Oniba’s Kidnap: I don’t know how Okada rider died— Witness says
  
  
• Ayama killing: Ethnic war looms in Delta as youths ask Ijaws to vacate Urhoboland
  
  
• $40m transfer: ONSA, not GEJ’s cousin’s firm paid N650m for Maitama property
  
  
• FG begs UN to support fight against corruption
  
  
• DALUNG’S BOMBSHELL: ‘Nigeria too hungry to attend World Cup”
  
  
• Singapore executes Nigeria’s Chijioke Obioha