Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [26 August, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Friday, 26 August, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Man who named dog Buhari regains freedom
  
  
• Zamfara killings: CAN meets, northern Christians seek probe
  
  
• Benue places N5m bounty on wanted killer
  
  
• IDPs protest poor feeding, block Borno highway
  
  
• N’Delta monarchs meet FG, give terms for peace
  
  
• Police to deploy 23,000 cops for Edo election
  
  
• Rerun: Rivers PDP, APC bicker over court order
  
  
• FUNAAB VC blames crisis on internal politics
  
  
• Ondo APC gov aspirants woo delegates with N.5m each

VANGUARD:

• Ubulu-Uku Installs New Monarch Sept 5
  
  
• A-Ibom Partners Singapore Firm On $100m Rice Project
  
  
• Nigeria Spends $6bn On Wheat Importation Annually- IAR Director
  
  
• Perishable Cargo Exporters Urges Probe Of Warehouses’ Closure
  
  
• Ekiti Assembly Prescribes 6 Months Jail Term For Herdsmen
  
  
• FG Re-Opens 8 Prisons In North-East
  
  
• Crisis: Only Obiano Can Decide On Ojukwu Varsity VC’s Tenure— Non-Teaching Staff
  
  
• Aftermath Of Botched PDP National Convention: Unusual Quiet In A-Ibom
  
  
• Edo Will Be A Model For Election Policing— IG
  
  
• Rio Olympics: Senate To Probe Sports Minister, NOC
  
  
• Supporters Club Accuses Pinnick Of Meddling In Its Activities
  
  
• Commuters Appeal To Okorocha Over Failed Amakohia-Ubi Road
  
  
• Akanu Ibiam Int’l Airport: Obi Lauds Enugu Gov, Minister
  
  
• FRSC Jails Lorry Driver, Tries 31 Others In Ebonyi
  
  
• Prison, A Good Experience, Says Man Who Named Dog ‘Buhari’
  
  
• 3000 Dock Workers Retrenched As 20 Shipping Companies Shut Operations

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• Collapse In Oil Price A Blessing —Soludo
  
  
• Police Rescue 6-Year-Old Orphan Caged By Foster Parents
  
  
• FG Seeks $125m Loan From World Bank To Fight Polio •FCT To Arrest, Eject Residents Who Reject Immunisation
  
  
• Buhari Congratulates David-West At 80
  
  
• Troops Arrest Suspected Kidnappers In Bauchi
  
  
• 2016 Budget Will Work If … —Fashola
  
  
• INEC To Deploy 18,511 Personnel For Edo Governorship Poll
  
  
• Buhari Leaves For Nairobi To Attend TICAD VI
  
  
• Niger Delta Monarchs List 6 Conditions To Stabilise Region
  
  
• Investigate Anyone Who Has Link With Boko Haram, Sheriff Tells FG
  
  
• Soyinka To Buhari: Respond To Militants’ Outreach, End N/Delta Crisis
  
  
• KERRY’S VISIT TO NIGERIA DISCRIMINATORY, DIVISIVE —CAN

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Niger Delta Monarchs Give Terms For Peace
  
  
• Again, Herdsmen Invade Enugu, Kill Catholic Seminarian
  
  
• Foreign Banks Threaten To Put 8 Lenders On Watch List
  
  
• Kwara Earmarks N300m Monthly To Contractors
  
  
• Soludo To APC: Stop Blaming PDP For Nation’s Woes
  
  
• Okowa Regrets Militants’ Hostility, Laments Drop In Allocation
  
  
• CAN Berates Kerry, Says His Visit For Nigerian Muslims Only
  
  
• Ayade: Hawkers Have A Right In Cross River
  
  
• Splinter IPOB Group Sacks Nnamdi Kanu, To Name New Leader Monday
  
  
• Polio: FG Seeks $125 Million Loan From World Bank
  
  
• Obesity Could Cause Eight Cancer Types –Study
  
  
• Tears As Four World Bank Officials Drown In Ekiti

THE NATION:

• Ronaldo wins UEFA Best Player Award
  
  
• EFCC ensures proper investigation before suspects' arrest – Magu
  
  
• Trump calls Hillary Clinton 'bigot' at campaign rally
  
  
• Kidnappers free Bayelsa lawmaker's octogenarian father
  
  
• Nigeria ranks 23rd on global slavery index
  
  
• Ondo governorship primary for Wednesday
  
  
• Soludo: How to revive the economy
  
  
• Kachikwu: $40b down the drain in Niger Delta
  
  
• Lawyers caught writing exams for students, Law School DG alleges
  
  
• Soyinka: I'm responding to militants'overtures
  
  
• Buhari, Alaafin meet over Avengers, Boko Haram
  
  
• EFCC doesn't torture suspects, says Magu
  
  
• Budget Padding: Why Dogara, others are after me – Jibrin

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