Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [22 February, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Wednesday, February 22, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Reps kick as Presidency budgets N60m for grass-cutting in N’East
  
  
• I was told Buhari’s lawyer gave Justice Ademola N500,000 — Witness
  
  
• PDP: I did not endorse Sheriff, says Jonathan
  
  
• Farmers flee kidnappers’ den as gang scouts for victims
  
  
• Overseas treatment: Health workers protest in Abuja
  
  
• Whistle-blowing: Blackmailers on the increase, says Uduaghan
  
  
• My husband became President because he never gave up – Aisha Buhari
  
  
• Death toll rises in southern Kaduna killings
  
  
• Three dogs attack five-year-old girl, damage eye, tooth
  
  
• Married couple, cobbler electrocuted in Rivers
  
  
• Driver arrested for N23m bus stolen at lover’s house
  
  
• MMM victim, who drank insecticide, dies in Abuja
  
  
• Family petitions IG over Rivers police killing of painter
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Whistle-blower exposes N8.4b fake bank account
  
  
• INEC report on Rivers rerun indicts police, others
  
  
• Buhari to rest more in UK
  
  
• 171 Libyan returnees arrive in Lagos airport
  
  
• Nigeria spends N1.1tr on debt servicing
  
  
• Fed Govt eyes $2.3b from World Bank, China
  
  
• March 8 deadline to pass budget 2017 fails
  
  
• Govt yet to implement 18% pension contribution, says PenCom DG
  
  
• ’We found $1m in Badeh’s wardrobe’
  
  
• Naira value to rise in the next six months, says Ajimobi
  
  
• NYSC pulls out of Rivers’ Saturday rerun
  
  
• Ogun tops NECO Nov/Dec SSCE
  
  
• N200b blown on special intervention in 2015, says Fed Govt
  
  
• We won’t allow anyone hold Nigeria to ransom, says Osinbajo
  
  
• Court remands pool clerk over client’s death
  
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Naira rises by N4 as CBN intervenes with $411.8m
  
  
• Stay Away From ‘Indian Garri’, NAFDAC Warns
  
  
• NNPC Admits Non-Remittance Of N23bn NESS Fees
  
  
• Labour Threatens Over FG’s Plan To Sack 3,500 Workers
  
  
• FG, Partners Sign 70m Euros Pact To Improve MNCH
  
  
• 2018 Census’ll Be Biometric Based —NPC
  
  
• Okowa, Uduaghan, Osunbor decry high rate of blackmail on social media
  
  
• Our Reasons For Paying Half-Salary In Bayelsa – Commissioner For Information
  
  
• Ajimobi, Alaafin, Others Pray For Buhari, Nigeria
  
  
• Military Invasion: Delta Community Cries Out Over Hunger, Lack Of Healthcare
  
  
• Mother tongue language day: Lagos directs schools to conduct Thursdays assembly in Yoruba
  
  
• Man dies rehabilitating 170-foot well in Lagos
  
  
• Imo Civil Guards now carry guns
  
  
• Kidnapping, armed robbery: Ayade announces N1m for whistleblowers
  
  
• Ebonyi/C-River crisis: Ebonyi govt donates relief materials to 184 families