Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [31 March, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Friday, March 31, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Buhari will return to see UK doctors –Presidency
  
  
• FG extends 2016 capital budget implementation to May 5
  
  
• Electoral Act: Senate okays e-voting, legalises card reader
  
  
• Forex manipulation: EFCC invites more senior CBN officials
  
  
• Again, objections stall Amosu’s N22.8bn fraud case
  
  
• Abuja airport: FG builds lounge for elderly, physically-challenged
  
  
• DSS quizzes Ifeanyi Ubah on NNPC’s N11bn claim
  
  
• Fraudsters impersonate Tinubu, Saraki, dupe job seekers of N20m
  
  
• Crisis looms for Eagles as NFF fails to pay Rohr
  
  
• Reps say Buhari lacks power to extend perm sec tenure
  
  
• EFCC arraigns A’Ibom Rep for certificate forgery
  
  
• Stallion to produce 1.5 million tonnes of rice
  
  
• Two bag 12 years’ imprisonment for gang-raping girl
  
  
• Father of seven commits suicide in Bayelsa
  
  
• Katsina man held for allegedly raping 7-month-old stepdaughter
  
  
• Youths invade Delta school, hold principal hostage
  
  
• Court jails father nine years for impregnating daughter
  
  
• Cultists kill 22-year-old IMSU graduate
  
  
• EFCC arrests herbalist for N45m fraud
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Senator in trouble over N4b contracts, 20 bank accounts
  
  
• Abuja Airport runway ‘is 57.5% ready’
  
  
• Unify exchange rates, IMF advises Nigeria
  
  
• 2017 budget: Saraki directs committees to submit reports
  
  
• Senator in trouble over N4b contracts, 20 bank accounts
  
  
• JAMB: we only modified Computer-Based Test for UTME
  
  
• Presidency: No plan to bring London doctors to treat Buhari in Abuja
  
  
• Reps query N3b quarters for Fed Govt’s officials
  
  
• NULGE begins nationwide protests over autonomy
  
  
• Peace Corps boss gets N10m bail
  
  
• Ooni: I’ll ensure harmony between Yoruba and Hausa
  
  
• Dangote, Adenuga, Alakija, seven others on richest list
  
  
• Niger community signs $250m rice production contract
  
  
• Superstition ends, hope rises as Imo lake gets new stock
  
  
• Bird ‘turns to woman’after electrocution
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Biafra: Kanu’s Continued Incarceration Just To Impress Buhari — IPOB
  
  
• Reps Battle Transport Minister Over Infrastructure In South East
  
  
• Senate Welcomes Buhari’s C’ttee On Executive, Legislature Row
  
  
• Naira Watch: Naira falls to N390/$
  
  
• N2.1bn contract fraud: EFCC probes Senator Nwaoboshi, brother
  
  
• Process For Cargo Survey Contract Ongoing — NPA
  
  
• DPR Seals Over 35 Filling Stations In Imo
  
  
• Tenure Of INC Leadership Has Expired, Say Chairmen Of Four Chapters
  
  
• Groups Shop For Okorocha’s Successor
  
  
• PDP Chieftain Backs Okowa’s Move To Abolish Illegal Devt Levies
  
  
• Africa To Get 9 Slots In FIFA’s 48-Team World Cup
  
  
• Again, Delta NUT Loses Members, NYSC Member In Auto Crash