Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [21 October, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Friday, October, 21, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Late 3SC player not a cultist, says brother
  
  
• Gunmen abduct Sokoto cleric, wife, others, demand N10m
  
  
• Patience Jonathan sues SERAP, says $15m is gift
  
  
• Another judge says Amaechi asked him to influence judgments
  
  
• Fayose inaugurates marshals to arrest errant herdsmen
  
  
• NNPC cuts oil prices to woo buyers
  
  
• Bribery: Pastor denies leading Umana to Justice Okoro’s house
  
  
• N22.8bn fraud: Amosu, others abandon plea bargain
  
  
• Ondo PDP thugs attacking Oke’s supporters —AD
  

VANGUARD:

• Unlawful Dismissal: Reps Order PPPRA To Reinstate Staff
  
  
• Siasia Hits Qatar For Top Coaching Job
  
  
• Shiite Ban: El-Rufai Playing Jury, Prosecutor – IMN
  
  
• Web Voting Opens For NAJA Awards
  
  
• Asians Eye Glory As Japan Battle Korea DPR
  
  
• Win Governor’s Cup Tennis: Lopez-Perez On Course To Win 2nd Leg
  
  
• Barka Jumah: Do What Is Right Always
  
  
• Speed Limiting Device Vendors Can Create 2m Jobs — Vendors
  
  
• FG Misses School Feeding Take-Off Target
  
  
• Extra-Marital Affairs Rock 31-Yr-Old Marriage
  
  
• IPOB Lauds SNPA On Call To Release Agitators
  

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• How I Emerged As VP, By Osinbajo
  
  
• Amaechi Begged Me To Cancel Fayose’s Election –Justice Ngwuta
  
  
• Militancy: Avengers Pull Out Of Dialogue
  
  
• Attacks On Oil Installations, Vandalism Crash Monthly Allocation By N90.2bn
  
  
• NBA Tells Accused Judges To Resign, Face Prosecution
  
  
• N73m Poll Bribery: 130 INEC Officials Face Prosecution
  
  
• Customs Dismiss 29 Senior Officers
  
  
• Senate Passes NEDC Bill, Approves 3% Federal VAT For 10 Years
  
  
• Umahi Suspends ASUU Chair, Bursar As Strike Paralyses Ebonyi Varsity
  
  
• NAFDAC Seizes N68.2m Counterfeit Products In Enugu
  
  
• Fayose Vs EFCC: Obanikoro Vindicated Us, Says APC
  
  
• Ortom Declares Support For FG’s Social Investment Scheme

THE NATION:

• Judge: Amaechi asked me to help nullify Fayose’s election12:30 am
  
  
• Oba Ewuare II gets staff of office as 40th Benin monarch
  
  
• DSS arrest: NBA seeks suspension of affected judges
  
  
• $40m ADB loan for ABUAD
  
  
• Dollar scarcity persists as demand overwhelms Travelex
  
  
• It’s a plot to bring me down, says Amaechi
  
  
• Aluko: Obanikoro put $5.37m in military trunk for Fayose
  
  
• Varsities and Buhari’s ‘Change mantra’
  
  
• My vision, my mission, by monarch
  
  
• I was nominated for VP, says Osinbajo
  
  
• Buhari nominates Mamora, Iji, Pallen, Bugaje, Oguntade, 41 others as ambassadors
  
  
• Gunmen kill Mimiko’s CSO
  
  
• $13bn repatriation: Senate committee threatens sanctions against minister
  
  
• Sagay panel report: 55 Nigerians stole N1.3trn under Jonathan
  
  
• Alleged corruption: Female judge reports to EFCC
  
  
• How Nigeria can win war against terrorism, by Ambode
  
  
• Ajimobi, Aregbesola ‘committed to LAUTECH’
  
  
• N22.8bn fraud: ex COAS Amosun abandons plea bargain