Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [23 November, 2016]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Wednesday, November 23, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Deliver your judgment on Jegede’s case, S’Court orders A’court
  
  
• Frozen $15.5m: Court rejects Patience’s application to restrain EFCC
  ASUU ends strike
  
  
• FG’s huge debts crippling financial system – CBN
  
  
• Sagay slams Senate for delaying Magu’s confirmation
  
  
• CSOs, pro-govt protesters clash over N300m houses for Oshiomhole, deputy
  
  
• Al-Makura bans PUNCHman from govt events
  
  
• Film-maker, Seun Egbegbe, accused of stealing nine iPhones
  
  
• Muslim cleric stabs Lagos landlord to death
  
  
• Police arraign man for N9.8m fraud
  
  
• Oni heads APC situation room for Ondo poll
  
  
• Cash call: Nigeria gets $1.7bn discount from IOCs
  
  
• Taxpayers to get e-certificate in one week –Fowler
  
  
• FG vows to name, shame substandard goods’ exporters
  
  
• Piracy: Firms petition Reps, demand $29.2m compensation from Navy
  
  
• Ooni unveils Nigeria’s tallest statute to honour Moremi
  
  
• Our fighter jets attacked Boko Haram, killed scores – NAF
  
  
• Lagos offers 514 horticulturists jobs
  
  
• Amosun budgets N221bn for 2017
  
  
• Hoodlums set Okpanam woman ablaze
  
  
• Two feared killed in Igbira/Bassa chieftaincy tussle
  
  
• Confusion as two monarchs emerge in Anambra community
  
  
• Gunmen kill three NSCDC operatives in Rivers
  
  
• Kano court jails man seven years for rape
  
  
  THE NATION:

• Ondo: Police deploy 26,000 as AD alleges rigging plot
  
  
• Recession: CBN advises Fed Govt to settle domestic debts
  
  
• Fed Govt reduces monthly wage bills by N20b
  
  
• 11 die as police, hunters clash in Ibadan
  
  
• Tinubu hale, hearty, says Senator Afikuyomi
  
  
• Police parade 14 officers, 45 others for ‘kidnapping’
  
  
• N500b forex loss compounds manufacturers’ woes
  
  
• Senate summons Kachikwu over $115b oil deals
  
  
• Navy proscribes six maritime security outfits
  
  
• Reps pass N70.6b NCC 2016 budget
  
  
• Govt, Dangote sign 42.5km Obajana-Kabba road MoU
  
  
• Equities hit 7-month low as CBN holds rates
  
  
• I’m unaware of APC reconciliation in Kogi, says Faleke
  
  
• 8,863 ‘ghost workers’ uncovered in Kwara
  
  VANGUARD:

• NDYA lauds elders’ demand on FG to re-open Warri, P-Harcourt ports
  
  
• Court restrains NDPHC from routing power line through Mbosi palace
  
  
• FG moves to rehabilitate Enugu-Onitsha, Enugu-Port Harcourt express roads
  
  
• Nigeria’s oil output rises to 1.9mbd —Kachikwu
  
  
• Court sacks Rivers monarch, declares throne vacant
  
  
• Edo govt to partner private sector in provision of 200,000 jobs for youths
  
  
• Delta govt, Urhobo, Ijaw leaders wade into Aladja/Isaba crisis
  
  
• Telecom investments in Nigeria hit $68bn; $35bn from FDI
  
  
• Justices only get $23, 400 as estacode, £10, 000 for medical bills —S-Court
  
  
• Ugwuanyi flags off Enugu Free Trade Zone tomorrow
  
  
• 2 siblings, traditional ruler’s son to die by hanging for murder
  
  
• Police arrest 2 over production of fake number plates
  
  
• Man hacks wife to death in Enugu, dies minutes later
  
  
• 2 killed over phone theft in Niger
  

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Trump disavows ‘alt-right’ supporters
  
  
• Hurricane Otto threatens Central America
  
  
• IPOB, MASSOB name Delta, Rivers, Edo, others Biafran states
  
  
• Court restrains Rivers’ monarch, pending trial
  
  
• Senate backs military action in Niger Delta
  
  
• Senate summons Kachikwu over $115bn oil deal
  
  
• El-Rufai reads riot act on Southern Kaduna crisis
  
  
• Kwara uncovers 8,853 ghost workers on payroll
  
  
• Reps pass NCC’s N70. 6bn 2016 budget
  
  
• Jonathan’s wife loses bid to stop forfeiture of $15.5m to FG