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

[PressRoom]

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

PUNCH:

• Xenophobic attack: Students give MTN, DStv, others two days to leave Nigeria
  
  
• Xenophobic attacks: Protesters invade MTN office in Abuja
  
  
• $17bn stolen oil: Reps summon Emefiele
  
  
• Government must invest heavily in agriculture – ChristsonNNPC renegotiates offshore rig-rate, reduces cost by 72%
  
  
• Create coherent, credible economic policies, IMF tells Nigeria
  
  
• CBN reintroduces charges on cash deposits, withdrawals
  
  
• No padding in 2017 budget, says FG
  
  
• Rivers: 25 INEC officials to face trial over N111m bribe
  
  
• Women’s league begins March 25
  
  
• Kidnappers of German prof, associate demand N60m
  
  
• I’m ready for Hayatou – Ahmad
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Protest in Abuja over attacks in South Africa
  
  
• Mimiko hands over to Akeredolu
  
  
• Makarfi furious as Sheriff takes over PDP secretariat
  
  
• Bank directors owe N740b, says NDIC chief
  
  
• Court refuses Metuh’s request to invite Dasuki as witness
  
  
• N20b green bond for 1.1m beneficiaries
  
  
• 2017 budget: Presidency, lawmakers resolve grey areas
  
  
• Amosun to intervene in Customs’, traders’ rift
  
  
• Fed Govt, governors, firm meet over $4.5b Chinese agric loan
  
  
• Akinrinade calls for national restructuring
  
  
• ‘75 per cent of sickle cell cases is in Nigeria’
  
  
• Senate plans sack of beggars, prostitutes, others in FCT
  
  
• Account for alleged missing $246m, Senate tells NAPTIMS
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• North East: UN, Germany, Norway, Others To Raise $1.5bn For Urgent Food Assistance
  
  
• 2017 Budget: Osinbajo Hosts Saraki, Dogara At His Aguda Residence
  
  
• N5bn debt: Pay up or lose operating licence, NBC warns broadcast stations
  
  
• APC-led Fed Govt failed to meet its campaign promises —WIKE
  
  
• Murray-Bruce Urges PDP Members To Unite
  
  
• Nigeria Needs $1bn Annually To Reverse Medical Tourism — MINISTER
  
  
• Elizade Commences Production Of JAC
  
  
• MASSOB backs national census, regrets action during 2006 exercise
  
  
• Chinese govt demands dry yam from Nigeria
  
  
• NYSC acquires 35 hectares of land in Delta for skills acquisition
  
  
• CUSTOMS’ NIGHT RAID: Traders Storm Gov’s Office; Amosun Promises To Intervene
  
  
• 10 Wounded, 20 Houses Destroyed As Hoodlums Sack Anambra Community