Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [25 February, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Saturday, February 25, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Bird flu: Poultry farmers to get N1.7bn compensation
  
  
• Naira soars to 450 as dollar scarcity fades out
  
  
• Assemblies of God Church: S’Court affirms sacking of superintendent, Emeka
  
  
• Danger as psychiatrists reveal rising mental illness cases in Nigeria
  
  
• BoT petitions police over Sheriff’s forceful takeover of PDP secretariat
  
  
• Expect solar eclipse on Sunday, NASRDA tells Nigerians
  
  
• Fayose at Akeredolu’s inauguration, says Yoruba unity crucial
  
  
• Nigeria, Ghana benefit from IITA’s N3.6bn yam project
  
  
• Imposing 20% tax on drugs dangerous – PSN
  
  
• Rivers rerun: Police deploy 3,500 personnel in Etche, Omuma
  
  
• Those who say FESTAC ’77 encouraged idol worshipping in Nigeria are misguided –Prof. Duro Oni, former Deputy Vice-Chancellor, UNILAG
  
  
• Nigeria yet to decide on Hayatou, Ahmad – Dalung
  
  
• Champions F’Eagles missing as Africa U-20 tourney begins
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• PDP crisis: Jonathan under fire
  
  
• …Sheriff visits Anenih, battles for acceptance
  
  
• Akeredolu to Ondo people: ‘We can rise out of this dust’
  
  
• Supreme Court upholds sack of Assemblies of God leader Rev Emeka
  
  
• Ex-Customs boss Dikko forfeits 17 exotic vehicles to FG
  
  
• Killer of human rights lawyer Fadipe to die by hanging
  
  
• Xenophobia: S/African police fire rubber bullets at protesters
  
  
• …Police beef up security at MTN offices, others in Abuja
  
  
• Senators, Reps raise alarm over 14.8m Boko Haram victims
  
  
• Boko Haram leader Shekau executes group’s spokesman
  
  
• Judge withdraws from Adegboruwa’s case
  
  
• NDLEA discovers abandoned heroin, arrests two drug traffickers at Lagos airport
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Tinubu, Oyegun, Fayose storm Ondo as Akeredolu is sworn-in
  
  
• N3.4bn fraud: EFCC withdraws charge against NIMASA director’s aide, 3 others
  
  
• This is not the change they preached to us —Cardinal Okogie laments
  
  
• Okpozo Laid To Rest Amidst Eulogies
  
  
• FG appoints 3 new directors, a general manager for FAAN
  
  
• FG sacks NCAA Directors
  
  
• 27-Yr-Old Sentenced To Death For Killing Human Rights Lawyer
  
  
• Hunger Crisis Deepens In Lake Chad Basin — FAO
  
  
• Duke Offers Best Graduating Student $10,000
  
  
• NotJustOk Expands To East, S’Africa
  
  
• I got N2m from Turkish college kidnap, N150,000 from Isheri North landlords – Suspect