Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [20 December, 2016]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Tuesday, December 20, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Supreme Court doesn’t need 21 justices, says CJN
  
  
• Our foreign missions lack funds, Buhari laments
  
  
• N’Assembly’s air conditioning system collapses
  
  
• IMF MD, Lagarde, convicted of fraud in France
  
  
• Obaseki presents N150bn budget
  
  
• IPOB warns Buhari against visit to Enugu
  
  
• Ayade to appoint 6,000 aides in 2017
  
  
• Ijaw congress leadership crisis deepens
  
  
• NLC says Ajaero, others desperate, plans peace move
  
  
• AU backs ECOWAS, says Jammeh must go
  
  
• Russian ambassador shot dead in Turkey
  
  
• Name govs backing you, Makarfi tells Sheriff
  
  
• Two suicide bombers die in Maiduguri
  
  
• N10, 000 tax: Truck drivers block Abuja-Lokoja-Okenne road
  
  
• Killer herdsmen are criminals — Sultan
  
  
• 150,000 refugees return to Nigeria, says Buhari
  
  
• Ondo: Panel wants CPs sanctioned for cops unpaid allowances
  
  
• Kumuyi suspends crusade for retreat
  
  
• Reconstruction: FG to close Abuja airport in February
  
  
• Senate leader Ndume seeks to save Magu, visits Buhari
  
  
• Court refuses to order EFCC to unseal Fayose’s properties
  
  
• Lagos records N287bn IGR
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• DSS to Senate in another report: give Magu chance
  
  
• N289 billion looted fund captured in 2017 Budget
  
  
• Taraba killings death toll hits 42
  
  
• Customs intercepts arms at Lagos port
  
  
• Lagos rakes in N287b IGR
  
  
• Budget 2017: Federal Govt to raise N2tr bonds to pay off contractors
  
  
• Yuletide: NNPC discharges 38.7m litres aviation fuel
  
  
• 17 Justices ‘okay for Supreme Court’
  
  
• Interior, education, defence, health get 70% in ‘Budget of Recovery and Growth’
  
  
• NCC to telcos: brace for Yuletide traffic
  
  
• Abuja set for digital switchover, says minister
  
  
• Abuja airport to be shut for six weeks, says minister
  
  
• Court refuses Fayose’s prayer to release seized assets
  
  
• Buhari: we’re guided by best practice on IDPs
  
  
• Mimiko: MARE festival must continue
  
  
• Aviation unions order Arik Air workers to begin strike today
  
  
• Policeman kidnapped, killed
  
  
• ‘N100b debt to local contractors fraudulent’
  
  
• 24-hour curfew imposed on Kafanchan
  
  
• Ayade donates N80m to CAN, Muslim community
  
  VANGUARD
  
  
• Personal Ambition Behind New Labour Centre— Wabba
  
  
• PDP Crisis: Sheriff Meets Ex-Chair Bamanga Tukur
  
  
• FG Begins Work On Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Road
  
  
• Man, 25, Docked Over Abduction Of 9-Yr-Old Boy
  
  
• Accountant Allegedly Defrauds Bank Of N8m
  
  
• Army Promotes 11; Navy, One
  
  
• Buhari, Obasanjo For South-East Economic & Security Summit
  
  
• Oghara Agog Over Ibori’s Release, Whispered Return
  
  
• Two Dead, 17 Injured As Another Building Collapses In Akwa Ibom
  
  
• CODAF To FG: Stop Celebrating Discovery Of Crude Oil In Borno, Lagos
  
  
• Court Orders Round-The-Clock Protection For El-Zakzaky, Wife Upon Release
  
  
• Workers Reject New Auditor-General, Ayine
  
  
• Boko Haram: Jailed 70 Soldiers Write Buhari, Appeal For Presidential Pardon
  
  
• War Over Nwakali’s N9.8bn Transfer Fee
  
  
• NNPC Tackles Aviation Fuel Scarcity, Imports 38.7m Litres

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• PDP’ll emerge stronger from its crisis – Tukur
  
  
• FG secures $150m World Bank support for mining devt – Fayemi
  
  
• Buhari to Saraki: Let’s work together
  
  
• We didn’t reject Magu as EFCC Chairman – Senate Leader
  
  
• FG to fund 2017 budget with N259.6bn Abacha loot
  
  
• Supreme Court does not need more judges – Acting CJN
  
  
• Umeh receives Jagaban Shinkafi title
  
  
• Name PDP governors in your camp, PDP tells Gulak
  
  
• Resident doctors give FG 21-day ultimatum
  
  
• Dogara hails S’Court judgement on sack of LG chairmen
  
  
• Buhari: We’ll domesticate Kampala Convention to resettle IDPs
  
  
• PENGASSAN wants stakeholders’ inputs to new JV cash call