Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [23 February, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Thursday, February 23, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Osinbajo writes N’Assembly, seeks fresh $500m Eurobond
  
  
• I’ll quit as chairman after PDP convention – Sheriff
  
  
• Court freezes Stella Oduah’s firms’ accounts over $16.4m, N100m debt
  
  
• Customs men break shops, seize 4,550 bags of rice
  
  
• FG to probe importation of Indian-packaged garri
  
  
• NLC, TUC, ActionAid seek review of tax treaties
  
  
• Badeh: EFCC to show video clip of $1m cash recovery
  
  
• 29 babies, 211 B’Haram suspects die in detention – AI
  
  
• Don’t appoint SANs as S’Court judges, Gomez warns
  
  
• NBA shortlists 12 lawyers for A’Court job
  
  
• Ideye completes move to China
  
  
• Mother dumps four-month-old under Lagos bridge, blames poverty
  
  
• Four soldiers torture mechanic for damaging customer’s vehicle
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• PDP crisis: Makarfi kicks as Sheriff plans convention
  
  
• EFCC recovers 17 exotic vehicles from ex-Customs CG Dikko
  
  
• Rivers rerun: Police fault INEC report
  
  
• Buhari thanks Nigerians for prayers during phone call to Ganduje
  
  
• Court: Oduah can’t withdraw from 21 banks
  
  
• Protest in Sango as Customs seizes 1,870 bags of rice
  
  
• N120b debts worsen GenCos’ operation challenges
  
  
• NSIA secures $305m FDIs
  
  
• JAMB fixes UTME for May, scraps scratchcard
  
  
• Senators grumble as Osinbajo withholds assent to four bills
  
  
• Assembly seeks boundary between Edo, Kogi communities
  
  
• IGP deploys Special Forces in Southern Kaduna
  
  
• New Forex policy: CBN to sanction erring bank CEOs
  
  
• Mimiko appoints rector, VC
  
  
• Police vow to unravel killers of Nasarawa traditional healer
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Naira reverses losses, appreciates to N503 per dollar
  
  
• Protest Looms In Imo School Of Nursing Over Illegal Fees
  
  
• 2nd Niger Bridge back on track, Sovereign Wealth Authority MD assures
  
  
• A-Ibom PDP Rep defects to APC
  
  
• Corruption, Threat To Good Governance In Nigeria — Okowa
  
  
• Girl Allegedly Sets Up Friend For 10-Man Gang Rape
  
  
• 2 Die In Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Auto Crashes
  
  
• FUTO Owerri Sets Up Panel To Probe Students’ Riot
  
  
• N50bn Land Suit: Call Your State Govt To Order, Ozekhome Tells Anambra AG
  
  
• NIS deported 10, 000 illegal aliens in Oyo last year
  
  
• 4 dead as robbers storm Owerri bank
  
  
• Herbalist docked over N2.5m juju scam
  
  
• Expanded W/Cup: Africa Want 10 Places