Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [27 December, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Tuesday, December 27, 2016

PUNCH

• N’Assembly to re-work N7.29tn budget –Reps spokesman

• FG to end drug hawking August 1

• Our people undergoing hardship –APC

• EFCC to spend N6.13bn on new head office

• Nigeria loses N94bn to gas flaring in four months

• SON to destroy N400m worth of substandard tyres

• NERC fines Afam Power, Eko Disco N66.6m

• External reserves rise further, now $25.4bn

• Power generating firms perform below 30% – Report

• Death toll in Kaduna killings hits 11, soldiers arrest two

• Buhari playing into enemies’ hands, says Jibrin

• Stop Southern Kaduna killings, PDP, CD, CAN urge Buhari

• My predecessors left with 22 police vehicles –Arase

• Govt creates website to reduce vehicle seizure

• Businessman arrested for N165m forex scam

• FG must stop funding NFF –Ezeugo

• Gunmen kill four grandchildren, nine others in Delta, Rivers

• Robbers attack Calabar Christmas Village, rob Kiss Daniel

• Ritual killers attack Lagos family, murder siblings

THE NATION:

• Army chief: Boko Haram fighter arrested in Lagos

• Alleged N25b scam: EFCC rejects ex-governor’s settlement terms

• MTN pays N80b of N330b fine

• New rules: NSE in frenzy for January changeover

• NDE trains 23,512 in vocational schemes

• CBN, Heritage Bank provide N2b agric loan to Triton Aqua Africa

• Judges’ prosecution can’t end judicial corruption, says ex-Ekiti AG

• Obaseki, deputy play Santa Claus at IDPs’ Christmas party

• Ex-appointees beg Ortom for severance pay

• NHRC, police pledge improved collaboration to end rights abuses

• Olubadan to battle One million boys

• N140m for ex-Ekiti council officials

• Three die in herdsmen attack on Niger communities

• Eight killed as gunmen invade Rivers community

• Lagos to mark 50th anniversary with new roads

• Troops to train in Sambisa forest, says Buratai

• NULGE hails Supreme Court’s verdict on elected council chiefs

• Troops arrest youths with ammunitions in Kaduna

• Woman stabs husband to death over Christmas allowance

VANGUARD

• FG to fight militancy, insurgency with N29bn

• S-East Pensioners Oppose Okorocha’s 60% Pension Slash

• Power: Zungeru project to add 700MW to the national grid – Fashola

• Ughelli plant to generate 25% of Nigeria’s power

• Nigeria imports 18bn litres of PMS in one year

• Delta Community Protests Govt’s Alleged Plan To Impose Monarch

• NMA Gives Kogi Govt 21-Day Ultimatum Over Arrears

• Labour Lauds S’Court Judgment Over Govs’ Arbitrary Sack Of LG Chiefs

• Guinness Nigeria to seek shareholders’ nod for N40bn Rights Issue

• Freed Chibok Girls Unable To Spend Christmas With Families

• Students Body Pledges Support For Obiano In 2017

• Group Renews Call For Merger Of Igbo Parties

• Delta Nurses On Strike Over Manpower Shortage

• Commercial quantity of coal discovered in Sokoto