Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [28 July, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Thursday, 27 July, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Sheriff, Metuh in court today to stop PDP convention
  
  
• Man rapes seven-year-old in search of missing voucher
  
  
• To serve Nigeria is not by force
  
  
• EFCC invites Ekiti contractor for allegedly bribing Fayose
  
  
• Yuguda govt withdrew N1bn in one day –Bauchi gov
  
  
• Forcados shutdown: Nigeria loses N356.6bn in five months
  
  
• Ex-govs fraud cases: AGF lists Saraki, Akpabio, Daniel, Odili, Ladoja for fresh probe, trial
  
  
• Lagos, Niger strategise on food security, employment
  
  
• ‘Chinese woman set hotel ablaze to kill lover’
  
  
• DSS arrests 10 suspected kidnapers in Kogi
  
  
• Aisha Buhari seeks support for N’East malnourished children

VANGUARD:

• Anti-Graft War: Body Of A-Gs Meets Today To Adopt National Policy On Prosecution
  
  
• Onitsha Agog As CMS Marks 159th Anniversary Of Christianity In Igboland
  
  
• Unions Petition NASS Over Alleged Abuse Of Cabotage Act
  
  
• Calming The Abia Guber Storms
  
  
• Check Manipulation Of Poll Results, Ohakim Tells INEC
  
  
• Oil Exploration: Niger Draws Buhari’s Attention To Bida Basin
  
  
• Ijaw Activist Condemns Continued Detention Of 10 Gbaramatu Students
  
  
• No To Pension, Immunity For NASS Principal Officers – Igwesi
  
  
• Warri North LG Boss Woos Investors
  
  
• Anambra Community Protests Alleged Imposition Of Monarch By Govt
  
  
• Nigeria Discusses Key Buhari Change Projects With China
  
  
• Govs Opposed Excess Crude Savings — Ex-CBN Dep Gov
  
  
• Panel On ‘Slavery’ Crisis Visits Alor Uno In Nsukka
  
  
• Niger Delta Dialogue: You Don’t Have Our Mandate, Militant Group Tells NDDCG
  
  
• 35 FRSC Officials Killed On Duty
  
  
• Chained 9-Yr-Old: Celestial Church Wants Pastor-Father Prosecuted
  
  
• Pension: PDP Under Igbinedion Annihilated Civil Service — Iriase

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• US Election: We’ll Carry Clinton To Victory – Obama
  
  
• Budget Padding:Jibrin Dares Dogara
  
  
• Army Mobilises Troops Against N’Delta Militants
  
  
• CBN To Banks: Provide For Foreign Currency Loans
  
  
• Nigeria Has No Alternative To Buhari – Mohammed
  
  
• Sheriff, Oladipo, Metuh Move To Stop PDP
  
  
• Don’t Tamper With N5.3trn Pension Funds, TUC Warns Govt
  
  
• Kalu Tasks Buhari On Economy
  
  
• ‘Spousal Dialogue, Key To Increased Contraceptive Use’
  
  
• Bedlam On Asaba- Onitsha Expressway
  
  
• Roadside Food Vendors To The Rescue
  
  
• Nigeria Loses Over 9,000 Women To Cervical Cancer Annually’
  

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• Alleged Murder: Court Issues Arrest Warrant On Ekiti APC Chairman, Others
  
  
• ‘Nigeria Needs To Review Its Foreign Policy’
  
  
• Ekweremadu, Okowa, Anyaoku, Prominent Nigerians Pay Tributes To Ibru
  
  
• Normalcy Returns To UCH Emergency Services
  
  
• Fajuyi At 50: Falana, Gani Adams Differ On Modality For Restructuring
  
  
• No Alternative To Buhari Administration —Lai Mohammed
  
  
• Force Can’t Quell N/Delta Problem, Dickson Insists •Meets Buhari In Aso Rock
  
  
• Naira Sinks To All-Time Low Of 334.50/$1
  
  
• Alleged Budget Padding: Dogara Threatens Jibrin With Legal Action •Gives 7-Day
  
  
• Ultimatum To Retract Libelous Allegations Or Face Legal Action
  

THE NATION

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  113 Reps demand external probe of budget padding
  
  Punish those liable, says Gowon
  
• CBN’s rate hike more bitter than sweet, say analysts
  
  
• N432.5b Ecological Funds probe rattles governors
  
  
• Sheriff, Oladipo, Metuh, others move to stop PDP convention
  
  
• ‘APC governors’ meeting with Buhari not on Saraki’s trial’
  
  
• Alleged murder: Court issues arrest warrant against Ekiti APC boss
  
  
• FUTA suspends four students for alleged N16m internet fraud
  
  
• Afenifere seeks probe of budget padding
  
  
• Traditional ruler threatens to sue Melaye over attack on Senator Tinubu
  
  
• When Daura ‘forced’ Rivers strong men to shake hands
  
  
• Senator on condolence visit to Lagos Rep’s home
  
  
• Buhari behind Wike’s, Amaechi’s Abuja parley
  
  
• The politics of National Assembly standing panels
  
  
• Politicians behind inconclusive polls, says Akeredolu
  
  
• Nigeria’s power sector woes: Underfunding, greed or sabotage?
  
  
• Buhari approves fund for Abuja airport runway
  
  
• Fed Govt to start school feeding programme with 5.5 million pupils
  
  
• CNPP to Fayose: suspend capital projects, pay workers
  
  
• Our mission is to dislodge PDP’s govt in Ondo, says Olanusi
  

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