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

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

VANGUARD:

• We’re Waiting For Ibori To Continue His Contribution To Delta, Nigeria- Senator Omo-Agege
  
  
• Petroleum Tanker Accidents Killed 306 Nigerians In 2016— FRSC Corps Marshal
  
  
• What Beating Yemi Alade, Tiwa Savage, Seyi Shay To AFRIMA Award Means To Me— Aramide
  
  
• Edo Pilgrims Board Demands Sack Of NCPC Staff Over Deportation Of Delegate
  
  
• Players Pay To Play For National Teams, Says Amokachi
  
  
• I Wasn’t Expecting AMVCA Nomination Of ‘Oloibiri’- Rodgers Ofime
  
  
• Why Buhari Didn’t Attend South-East Economic, Security Summit— Presidency
  
  
• Family Of Seven Killed In Ghastly Motor Accident In Benue
  
  
• Armed Bandits Kill Aged Couple In Ilorin
  
  
• Akwa Ibom Gov, Speaker Empower 200 Nsit Ubium Indigenes, 115 Students
  
  
• Experts Advocate Participatory Style Of Governance
  
  
• CNPP Demands Immediate, Unconditional Release Of Ikenga By DSS
  
  
• Ugwuanyi Presents N105b Budget To Enugu Assembly
  

PUNCH:

• Quit Chelsea for Marseille, Drogba tells Mikel
  
  
• Christmas: Police deploy men in churches, ban fireworks
  
  
• $15m Ibori bribe: EFCC lists Ribadu as key witness
  
  
• We hand over Ige’s killers to God for judgment –Son
  
  
• Cashless Christmas: Frustration, anguish as ATMs dispense less cash
  
  
• Fulani herdsmen kidnap ‘corper’, others, demand N15m ransom
  
  
• Christmas hampers take new forms as Recession bites harder
  
  
• 350 surgeons to 170 million Nigerians: Traditional bonesetters hold sway in Nigeria’s poor Orthopaedic...
  
  
• Life in Libyan cells where Europe-bound Nigerians die like chickens
  
  
• NMA, PSN react as WHO approves new Ebola vaccine
  
  
• APC bemoans killings, charges Fayose on security

THE NATION:

• Ganaru seeks international friendly matches for Wikki
  
  
• Court freezes N9bn in fresh accounts linked with Patience Jonathan
  
  
• Buhari hails Lagos, Kebbi over Lake Rice
  
  
• Nikyu confident of Katsina United’s chances in NPFL
  
  
• Disquiet over Amosun’s senatorial ambition in Ogun
  
  
• Ekiti monarch Olukere celebrates birthday with orphans
  
  
• International friendlies Rohr: Expect new faces in Eagles
  
  
• Anxiety grips 33 governors over N552.74bn refund
  
  
• ECOWAS threatens Gambian President Jammeh with military action if he fails to quit
  
  
• Emergencies: FG to create seven trauma centres, budgets N35bn — Health Minister
  
  
• FG sets up C’ttee to pick candidate for CAF polls
  

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• Kano State Police command bans use of fireworks, knockouts
  
  
• Ajimobi’s wife preaches love
  
  
• Christmas with tears as bank customers struggle for cash
  
  
• Again court orders freezing of Patience Jonathan’s bank accounts
  
  
• Lassa fever: Ogun places 396 people on surveillance