Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [21 February, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Tuesday, February 21, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Naira hits 520/dollar, forex retailers examine CBN action
  
  
• Osinbajo has credibility, trust him, Jibrin advises Buhari
  
  
• Osinbajo meets govs, ministers over rice, wheat production
  
  
• Outrage as Indian-packaged garri sells in Nigeria
  
  
• Reps query N450bn Amnesty contracts under Jonathan
  
  
• 16 power turbines now functional, generation rises – Report
  
  
• German firm pledges N97.5bn for Nigerian industrialists
  
  
• CBN to make forex available for PTA, school fees, others
  
  
• FG summons S’African envoy over attacks on Nigerians
  
  
• Protest as Osun demolishes buildings in Ede
  
  
• Anambra PDP asks assembly to impeach Obiano
  
  
• Task force officials batter LASU student for videoing operation
  
  
• Lagos housemaid disappears with Ghanaian family’s daughter
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Jonathan backs Sheriff as Makarfi vows to fight on
  
  
• Auditor-General plans weekly audit of agencies
  
  
• APC governors meeting on budget fails to hold
  
  
• Osinbajo absent in Akure again
  
  
• NAHCON approves 131 Hajj operators
  
  
• Gunmen kill 21 in Southern Kaduna attacks
  
  
• Senate to EFCC: beam searchlight on CBN, NNPC, others
  
  
• DPR seizes vessel laden with adultrated fuel
  
  
• SON confiscates substandard tyres worth N200m
  
  
• Fed Govt, China in talks over N900b loan
  
  
• Strike: Govt agrees to pay CAC workers in arrears
  
  
• NBA to nominate lawyers as Court of Appeal justices
  
  
• Senate flays JVCs’ refusal to repatriate $850b oil proceeds
  
  
• Court adjourns Patience Jonathan’s case to April 24
  
  
• Lawyer withdraws suit seeking Magu’s sack
  
  
• Supreme Court affirms 1958 Lagos’ acquisition of land
  
  
• 100 Lagos workers get rent-to-own houses
  
  
• Sokoto releases N2.2b for gratuity
  
  
• Part payment for pilgrims in LagosBush meat hunters risk 10-year jail term in Oyo
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Militants kidnap Army Lieutenant in Lagos; soldiers, police invade creeks
  
  
• RECESSION: Cost Of Healthcare Hits The Roof
  
  
• FG Bemoans Failed Auchi-Lokoja Highway
  
  
• Law to ban polygamy: There’s a connection between polygamy, poverty, terrorism – Emir of Kano
  
  
• Erha North Phase II Adds 65,000bpd To Nigeria’s Oil Production
  
  
• Bakassi Still Exists Despite Ceding To Cameroon – Clan Head
  
  
• Kukah Laments Christians’ Passive Attitude To Politics
  
  
• 100,000 Live With HIV/AIDS In Nasarawa— NSACA
  
  
• N-Delta Peace: Buhari Orders Return Of Egbesu Sword
  
  
• Court Joins Chevron As Defendant In Suit By 235 Disengaged Workers
  
  
• Ogun Chiefs Drag Alake To Court Over Chieftaincy Tussle
  
  
• 25-Yr-Old Mechanic Found Dead In Calabar Waste Bin
  
  
• Man Commits Suicide In Niger
  
  
• Man shoots rival dead over girlfriend in Ogun