Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [27 February, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Monday, February 27, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Contempt: Sheriff asks court to jail Makarfi, Obi, others
  
  
• Assemblies of God Church moves against sacked general superintendent
  
  
• DSS holds ex-gov Suswam over SMG, AK-47, pistol
  
  
• Business registration now 60 days — CAC
  
  
• SON arrests two Chinese for importing N5bn fake tyres
  
  
• Most senior Supreme Court judge should be CJN –Afe Babalola
  
  
• Experts predict further gain as naira hits 445/dollar
  
  
• CBN receives $221.3m fresh bid from 16 banks
  
  
• Shareholders get N30bn stranded dividend
  
  
• 7.34 million workers join Contributory Pension Scheme
  
  
• South East govs meet, unfold plan for regional integration
  
  
• A’Ibom to get war college soon –FG
  
  
• Rivers APC kicks against INEC’s declaration of rerun results
  
  
• Bayelsa approves construction of 360 low-cost houses
  
  
• Two corpers, four others die in auto crash
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• UK okays Diezani’s trial for ‘money laundering’
  
  
• Bishop to Akeredolu: don’t waste time probing Mimiko, others
  
  
• 16 banks fund $220m with N72b at Forex forwards
  
  
• Fed Govt underpays GenCos by over N30b monthly
  
  
• Fed Govt to sell N5,000 savings bond to public
  
  
• Four insurance firms pay N24.9m fine
  
  
• Some banks are yet to remit state revenues to TSA, says Minister
  
  
• NAICOM to commence risk-based supervision, capital verification
  Fed Govt underpays GenCos by over N30b monthly
  
  
• PDP wins Assembly’s, Reps’ seats in Rivers
  
  
• Benue ready for local government autonomy
  
  
• Fed Govt eases visa, travel rules
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Xenophobic Attack: FG Blasts S-Africa Minister
  
  
• Buhari requests for more N157.75bn to hire additional 350,000 unemployed graduates, says Presidency
  
  
• I’ll run in 2019, if… – Tinubu
  
  
• W-Bank to grant Nigeria $500m loan to assist out- of-school children
  
  
• International creditors to sue FG as AMCON scales down Arik operations by 70%
  
  
• Falana Seeks Elzakzaky, Wife’s Release
  
  
• Queens College extends mid-term break, as authorities probe deaths
  
  
• Benin Kingdom Is Home For All, Oba Of Benin Tells Igbo
  
  
• Banks’ Stocks Account For N1.5trn Investment
  
  
• Orji Kalu, Ananaba Write Ikpeazu Over Unpaid Enitlements
  
  
• CBN To Mop Up N310bn Through Treasury Bills
  
  
• Ayade, ANDP flag off construction of 5,000 housing units for Bakassi returnees
  
  
• Kano govt weds 1,520 couples, moves to ‘sanitise marriage’
  
  
• 26 rescued from ‘strange mental home’ in Osun
  
  
• Don’t kill me, send me to jail, suspected killer of ex-wife’s husband begs