Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [24 August, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Wednesday, 24 August, 2016.

PUNCH

• JTF kills two Avengers, arrests three militants
  
  
• Hotel workers kill boss, disappear with CCTV, car
  
  
• $2.3bn NNPC funds: CBN bars 9 banks from forex market
  
  
• 272 firms shut down in one year – MAN
  
  
• ACF laments disunity among northerners
  
  
• Lagos prophet to face child abuse charges
  
  
• Chibok girls: Reactions greet Buhari’s failure to receive protesters
  
  
• Minimum wage can’t buy a bag of rice – Anambra NLC
  
  
• Edo, Abia workers protest unpaid salaries

VANGUARD:

• 67-Yr-Old Man Commits Suicide In Calabar
  
  
• First Cargo Plane Lands At Enugu Airport
  
  
• Itsekiri Never Demanded Own State – Lori-Ogbebor
  
  
• Rights Group To Prisons Authorities: Release Names Of People Killed In Abakaliki Jail Break
  
  
• N-Delta Leaders Defuse Tension With New Initiative
  
  
• Owerri Road Construction: No Compensation For House, Shop Owners— Okorocha
  
  
• Lawyer Wants CJN, AGF To Probe Alleged ‘Unprofessional’ Conduct Of Edo AG
  
  
• Rescuing Nigeria From Poverty
  
  
• N13bn IGR Debt: Enugu BIR Moves Against Federal Institutions
  
  
• 15 A-Ibom LGs Asked To Prepare For Flooding
  
  
• Delta Govt Mediates Navy, Oghara Land Dispute
  
  
• How NAF Killed 300 Insurgents In Borno
  
  
• Police Seal Kwankwaso’s Residence Over Mass Wedding
  
  
• Group Calls For Synergy In Devt Of S-East
  
  
• Soldiers Kill Kidnap Kingpin In Abia
  
  
• Industrialists Decry Incessant Power Outages As Firms Fold Up
  
  
• Abia Govt Procures 40 Motorcycles To Monitor Rural Schools

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Earthquake Leaves At Six Dead In Central Italy
  
  
• Recession: Senators, Reps Shun Constituencies
  
  
• $2.1bn NNPC Funds: CBN Bars Nine Banks From Forex Deals
  
  
• Military Hits ‘Shekau’, Kills Boko Haram Commanders
  
  
• US Backs Buhari’s Anti-Corruption War
  
  
• Workers Protest Planned Concession Of Four Airports
  
  
• National Assembly Is Broke – Senate Leader
  
  
• OPS Demands Review Of Foreign Exchange Policy
  
  
• Buhari’s Emergency Powers Bill Unnecessary – Igboekulie
  
  
• Admission: JAMB Won’t Interfere With Candidates’ List – Oloyede
  
  
• Benue: NLC Protests Killing Of Colleagues In Nassarawa
  
  
• PDP Tells APC To Focus On Economy
  

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• Arms Purchase Scam Extended Boko Haram’s Reign —Buhari
  
  
• We Must End Boko Haram In The North —ACF
  
  
• Kerry In Nigeria, Meets Buhari, Sultan, 5 Northern Govs
  
  
• N/Delta Ministry Completed 12 Out Of 147 Projects In 6yrs —Audit Committee
  
  
• My Electrocuted Daughter Made Excellent Grades In WASSCE —Father
  
  
• Bariga Wanted Criminal Arrested Inside Mosque
  
  
• Monarch Lauds Fayose At 2016 Udiroko Festival
  

THE NATION:

• US to help tackle underdevelopment in Nigeria
  
  
• Bangladesh commends Nigerian military for tackling terrorism in Chad Basin
  
  
• IDPs will return home next year
  
  
• Global slavery index ranks Nigeria 23 of 167
  
  
• Lawyer sues MTN over line disconnection
  
  
• Buhari to Kerry: We'll institutionalize anti-corruption war
  
  
• CBN Sanctions nine banks for hiding NNPC's $2.274bn
  
  
• $10.3b probe: EFCC to seize Diezani's assets in America
  
  
• Ajimobi okays 25 local council devt. areas
  
  
• Shallow grave found in Lagos pastor's home
  
  
• Ondo APC Chair: I have no preferred candidates

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