Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [26 January, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Thursday, January 26, 2017

PUNCH:

• Senate accuses Fashola, BPP of contract inflation
  
  
• Wike sponsoring protests to discredit FG, security agencies –DSS
  
  
• No steady power supply unless tariff rises – NERC
  
  
• Inflation rate becoming unbearable, says Tinubu
  
  
• Markafi’s claim on Buhari’s rumoured death silly – Mohammed
  
  
• Buhari’s anti-corruption war has ended, says PDP
  
  
• ‘Osinbajo not under pressure to resign’
  
  
• Police arrest nine Shiites, face unlawful assembly charges
  
  
• NNPC lacks oil trading skills, says GMD
  
  
• Fayose foils DSS plan to arrest pastor in Ekiti
  
  
• Electricity: Consumers groan as power firms, others trade blame
  
  
• Lagos engineer sets lover, rival ablaze, posisons self
  
  
• Family wants Nigerian woman rescued from Oman
  
  
• Kidnappers arrested while attempting to withdraw ransom
  
  THE NATION:
  

• Buhari’s health: Govt to punish rumour mongers
  
  
• Police, Shi’ites clash at National Assembly
  
  
• Tinubu: we must spend our way out of recession
  
  
• Corruption battle: Sagay slams Sani over ‘deodorant’ comments
  
  
• Turkish school: it was a difficult time for us
  
  
• NLNG’s vessel with 13,000mt of cooking gas berths in Lagos
  
  
• DSS implicates governor in plot against Fed Govt
  
  
• Alleged fraud: EFCC re-arraigns ex-Chief of Air Staff Umar
  
  
• ICPC recovers 40 vehicles from retired directors, others
  
  
• How ex-Air Chief diverted N22b, by EFCC witness
  
  
• Sultan: preachers of reprisal attacks are enemies of peace
  
  
• Workers hold commissioner hostage in Ondo
  
  
• Suspected insurgents attack Plateau village
  
  
• Alleged diversion of N10b: Fed Govt files charges against Suswam, two others
  
  
• Banker admits serving in Fayose’s transition committee
  
  
• 2008 OLYMPIC GAMES FALLOUT: IOC elevates Okagbare to silver
  
  VANGUARD:
  

• Suleiman: How many Fulani herdsmen killing Nigerians have you arrested, Fayose asks DSS
  
  
• I didn’t ask Christians to kill Muslims – Apostle Suleiman Johnson
  
  
• Fulani herdsmen attacking Nigerians are from Senegal, Mali – Northern govs
  
  
• Reactions Trail Obasanjo’s Call For Igbo President In 2019
  
  
• CBN sold $1.1bn to importers in Nov 2016
  
  
• Dangote Cement Rewards Distributors With N2.4bn Bonus
  
  
• SGF: Senate’s Document Faults Buhari
  
  
• $13.9bn Repatriation Probe: Protect MTN, Minister Tells Senate
  
  
• Novena Varsity, Delta govt sign MoU on training of medical students
  
  
• Benin Monarch’s Chiefs Storm Isekhure’s Palace To Secure Erimwi-Idu Shrine
  
  
• Uproar At LASUTH Over N30,000 Levy For Two Retiring Nurses
  
  
• Workers Shut C-River LG Ministry, HoS Office Over 8 Months Unpaid Salaries
  
  
• Herbalist Docked For Allegedly Failing To Exorcise Evil Spirits
  
  
• Badminton Federation Raises Alarm Over Missing Mat