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

[PressRoom]

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



PUNCH:

• PDP, not APC killed Alamieyeseigha –Late gov’s wife
  
  
• I sacrificed human head as advised by mad woman —Suspect
  
  
• Kidnappers gave us 10 strokes of the cane daily —Victims
  
  
• Mikel moves to save Chelsea career
  
  
• Lagos policemen shoot teenager, attack brother with cutlass
  
  
• Militants blow up export line, crude production threatened
  
  
• 27 stocks depreciate as market capitalisation sheds N164bn
  
  
• Jonathan under attack for saying Dasuki didn’t steal $2.1bn
  
  
• EFCC to arraign Obanikoro, Fani-Kayode in Nov

VANGUARD:

• Buhari Will Surprise Nigerians In 2017 – Trade Minister
  
  
• No Plan To Hike Fuel Price – NNPC
  
  
• FG, World Bank To Develop Master Plan For Coastal Communities’ Devt
  
  
• IIM Introduces GIMC Certification To Tackle Information Breeches
  
  
• One Killed As Train Runs Into Traders, Vehicles In Enugu
  
  
• Teacher Defiles 12-Yr-Old Pupil
  
  
• Plateau Assembly Dep Speaker, Another Dump PDP For APC
  
  
• PMAN Partners FG To Curb Piracy
  
  
• ‘The Tech Community Is Gender-Blind’ —Begho
  
  
• Senate Urges FG To Include Azikiwe, Balewa, Nyerere, Nkrumah’s Pan-Africanism Struggle In Schools’ Curriculum
  
  
• Can Nigeria Continue To Avoid Probing Jonathan?
  
  
• Ensure Schools Are Never Shut Down, Oshiomhole Tasks Govts, Varsities
  

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• IPOB Rejects New Judge For Kanu’s Trial
  
  
• Fayose Raises The Alarm Over FG’s Support For Fulani Herdsmen
  
  
• Ambode Inaugurates N500m Disability Fund, To Employ 25,000 Sweepers
  
  
• Why The FG Is Committed To Digitization Deadline – Lai Mohammed
  
  
• Budget: Buhari Seeks $29.96bn Loan
  
  
• DMO To FG: Don’t Borrow Above $22.08bn In 2017
  
  
• Dasuki Didn’t Steal $2.2bn Arms Cash –Jonathan
  
  
• Avengers Blow Up Chevron’s Escravos Oil Facility
  
  
• NERC: Buhari’s Nominee Rejects Offer
  
  
• God Will Bless Nigeria In Our Tenure –Osinbajo
  
  
• EFCC To Arraign Fani-Kayode Nov 10
  
  
• PDP Killed Alamieyeseigha, Wife Alleges
  

THE NATION:

• Jonathan: Dasuki didn’t steal $2.2b weapons cash
  
  
• Buhari seeks N180b virement for wages, Amnesty, NYSC, others
  
  
• No need to hike petrol price, says NNPC
  
  
• MTV Africa Music Award: Airtel congratulates Patoranking
  
  
• Herdsmen: Fayose raises alarm as Presidency urges calm
  
  
• Buhari’s nominee for NERC chair turns down offer
  
  
• No increase in petrol price, says NNPC
  
  
• Avengers resume bombing of oil facilities
  
  
• Govt woos Swedish investors into telecom sector
  
  
• Ecobank gives deadline on Oceanic shares’conversion
  
  
• What is the sense in Niger Delta insurgency?
  
  
• NLC to Fed Govt: avert CPS collapse
  
  
• NUPENG urges speedy passage of PIB