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

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

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• PDP: Sheriff nursing presidential ambition, says Makarfi
  
  
• Certificate: ABU to speak on Melaye today, Senate begins probe
  
  
• Uniform saga: AGF intervenes as lawyer sues Senate, Ali
  
  
• Suicide: Confusion as doctor’s family rejects corpse
  
  
• Court grants ex-NNPC boss, Yakubu, N300m bail
  
  
• Only FG can explain my service extension – Perm Sec
  
  
• Xenophobia: Five Nigerians attacked in S/Africa again
  
  
• PDP has lost focus, says Bode George
  
  
• FG plans second runway for Abuja airport
  
  
• Grass-cutting probe: Senate panel re-invites SGF Lawal
  
  
• 16 die from cerebrospinal meningitis outbreak in Niger
  
  
• Air Meridien leaves 40 passengers stranded at Lagos airport
  
  
• Mouka boss stresses importance of quality sleep
  
  
• Cameroon expels Nigerians fleeing B’Haram, says UN
  
  
• Polio: Rotary targets 56 million Nigerian children for vaccination
  
  
• Live wire electrocutes three siblings in Delta
  
  
• Police bar mother from seeing son arrested since 2015
  
  
• Sacked Edo pastor plants explosives in church
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Makarfi accuses Sheriff of plotting to hijack PDP for 2019 presidential bid
  
  
• Senate angry as Customs chief Ali shuns invitation
  
  
• AGF to Senate: stay action on CGC’s invitation
  
  
• Senate to probe Saraki, Melaye over bullet-proof car, certificate forgery
  
  
• N5b ‘sub-standard’ tyres: Chinese get N10m bail
  
  
• Fed Govt states, councils share N429.127b for Feb
  
  
• Peterside resigns from Stanbic IBTC board
  
  
• PenCom seeks closer ties with RSAs, retirees with construction of six offices
  
  
• Skye Bank begins sale of 2017 JAMB/UTME E-Pins
  
  
• Senate summons Emefiele over intervention fund
  
  
• INEC won’t transfer 2019 results manually
  
  
• Fayose demolishes three filling stations
  
  
• Ekiti earmarks N4b for pension
  
  
• Benue lost N95b in herdsmen attacks
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Naira Watch: Naira rises to N420/$
  
  
• Autonomy: NULGE Begins Nationwide Protest Rally
  
  
• Innoson Motors to establish world class manufacturing plant in Uyo
  
  
• ASUU Rejects Pay Cut, Says Nigerian Lecturers Least Paid In Africa
  
  
• LEDAP, SERAP, others condemn attack on Amnesty Int’l office
  
  
• Jigawa Releases Council Elections Date, Guidelines
  
  
• FRSC Mobile Court Convicts 45 Traffic Offenders
  
  
• 20,000 Register For JAMB’s UTME In Two Days
  
  
• Investing In Maternal Health Can Save Nigeria $1.5b Annually — UNFPA
  
  
• Umahi To Southern Churches: Assist Your Counterparts In The North
  
  
• LASG Shuts 100 ‘Pure Water’ Firms