Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [24 April, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Monday, April 24, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Seized N13bn probe: NIA finance officials to appear before Osinbajo panel today
  
  
• ASUU faults police claim on lecturers’ arrest, slain
  
  
• Saraki, Ngwuta, others may forfeit alleged undeclared assets
  
  
• Illegal weapons: Presidency designs template for whistle-blowers
  
  
• $17bn stolen crude: Chinese firm denies DPR’s $2.6bn claim
  
  
• FG plans fresh upgrade of 22 airport terminals
  
  
• Buhari now operating as part-time President —Fayose
  
  
• Alleged unfulfilled promises: N’Delta militants threaten to resume bombings
  
  
• Confusion hits NUGA, competition faces cancellation
  
  
• Troops recover 79 guns, ammunition in southern Kaduna
  
  
• Ex-councillor, four others nabbed for murder in A’Ibom
  
  
• Edo donates N1m to quintuplets’ family
  
  
• A’Ibom community accuses C’River youths of killing 20
  
  
• Militants kill three policemen, four others in Ogun
  
  
• Father, children, sisters-in- law die in Anambra accident
  
  
• Customs seize 750 bags of rice in Kwara
  
  
• Uduaghan, Delta PDP leaders endorse Okowa for second term
  
  
• Abuja residents allege assault by soldiers for resisting demolition
  
  
• PDP sweeps LG polls in Ebonyi
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Battle to recover $15b gas sales dividends begins
  
  
• Presidency shops for new SGF
  
  
• Dasuki’s detention: Buhari’s corruption war selective, says Umar
  
  
• BPE DG pledges to ensure privatised enterprises live up to agreements
  
  
• $1.04b Malabu Oil Block: I did not lead negotiation team, says Adoke
  
  
• UK home owners to pay taxes in Nigeria
  
  
• NGO secures N10 bn loan for young farmers from FCMB
  
  
• Youths protest Adeleke’s death, allege poisoning
  
  
• Lagos spends additional N20b to tackle housing deficit
  
  
• Council chief: Melaye stage-managed attack
  
  
• 2017 NSF elections to hold May 30
  
  
• Messi scores 500th goal for Barcelona to win El Clasico
  
  
• 750 delegates expected at World Conference of Banking Institutes in Lagos
  
  
• IAAF World Relays: Blessing Okagbare others flop in 4x200m
  
  
• Victims support fund realises N54bn to support victims of Boko Haram insurgency
  
  
• 10 feared dead in Aba accident
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• BOKO HARAM: Troops foil attacks, arrest 3 Chadian terrorists in Adamawa, Borno
  
  
• Replace Babachir With Onu, Ex-Gov Attah Urges Buhari
  
  
• N530bn Bond, Tbills Maturity To Suppress Scarcity Of Funds
  
  
• Army, DSS uncover arms, ammunition in Anambra communities, arrest suspects
  
  
• Why Buhari Should Go For Second Term — Oyegun, APC Chairman
  
  
• FG to engage 6,000 youths in agriculture
  
  
• Nigeria Police to recruit 30,000 officers
  
  
• 2017 NSF Elections To Hold May 30
  
  
• IPOB Raises Alarm Over Alleged Kidnap Of Its Africa Rep
  
  
• FG’s Savings Bond Very Attractive Than Banks’ Rates, Say Shareholders
  
  
• Ishawo: Police Accuse Community Leaders Of Sponsoring Militants
  
  
• NOC Applauds Dalung
  
  
• Rivers to embark on aggressive rural electrification —Wike
  
  
• Obaseki Vows To Return Insurance FC To Elite Division
  
  
• In Akwa Ibom: 2 policemen die, 2 missing in clash over N50,000 tapioca thief