Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [02 August, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Tuesday, 2 August, 2016.

THE NATION:

• Ex-NNPC boss sneaks out over $1.6b Diezani’s deals
  
  
• EFCC, Interpol smash gang over $60m scam
  
  
• Budget padding: Jibrin petitions EFCC
  
  
• Buhari fires JAMB chief Ojerinde, 16 others
  
  
• TUC issues ultimatum to Oyo over unpaid salaries
  
  
• Ex-Kano AGF Mahmoud beats Gadzama to lead NBA
  
  
• Ondo PDP council chairmen kick as Jegede picks form
  
  
• New rail investment vista
  
  
• IPMAN disowns alleged N10.9b subsidy scam
  
  
• Cutting cost in Internet of Things (IoT) era
  
  
• Power supply dips to 2,796Mw on gas shortage
  
  
• Planned concession of international airports

• Smuggling threatens rice production sufficiency
  
  
• Fed Govt takes over Ajaokuta steel

PUNCH:

• Long Bridge repairs for completion this month – Fashola
  
  
• Militants flee Ogun, regroup in Ondo •NSCDC arrests 21
  
  
• Seven charging mistakes that kill your iPhones
  
  
• Ambode’s wife advocates more time for breastfeeding
  
  
• Graduate, banker arrested for attempting to divert LG fund
  
  
• $60m scam: INTERPOL, EFCC arrest Nigerian fraudster in P’Harcourt
  
  
• I transferred N1.2bn from Obanikoro son’s account –Banker
  
  
• FG owes retirees N293bn, says it won’t sack workers
  
  
• PDP convention’ll hold as scheduled –Wike
  
  
• Kaduna panel recommends trial of soldiers who killed Shiites
  
  
• Jubrin visits EFCC, says Dogara, others must be probed

VANGUARD:

• Edo Guber Must Be A Showpiece
  
  
• ABIA GOV TUSSLE: Civil Society Groups Call For Justice
  
  
• Ironsi, An Excellent Soldier, Great Patriot —Aisha Buhari
  
  
• Another Labour War Looms In Imo
  
  
• Land-Grabbers Beat Prayer Warriors Comatose For Invoking God’s Wrath On Them
  
  
• 13-Yr Marriage Collapses Over Sex Deprivation
  
  
• Sultan Calls For Intn’l Support On Anti-Corruption War
  
  
• N-Delta Attacks: We’ve Surrendered —EX-MILITANT GROUP
  
  
• Sultan Calls For Int’l Support On Anti-Corruption War
  
  
• Budget Padding: Senator Cautions Against Heating Up Polity
  
  
• FG Seeks Stakeholders’ Support In Fight Against Child Labour In Imo
  
  
• Deregulation: Petrol Price Falls As Kerosene’s Rises
  
  
• Olu Of Warri Inaugurates 12-Man INYC Executive
  
  
• Photos: Air Force Continues Bombardment Of Criminal Camps, Hideout In Arepo
  
  
• Jigawa Suspends Teachers’ Training
  
  
• NON-INCLUSION OF NAME: SDP Calls For Cancellation Of Imo Re-Run Polls

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• Strike Paralyses Activities At UI
  
  
• PDP, APC, Accord, Labour Members Defect To SDP In Ido LG
  
  
• 2015 Hajj Stampede: Reps Summon 36 States Muslim Pilgrims’ Boards
  
  
• Crisis Rocks Seaports, As Customs Jacks Up Import Duty Rate
  
  
• I’ll Restore Ondo’s Lost Glory —Former Speaker
  
  
• We Weren’t Part Of Oyo Govt/NLC Agreement On Unpaid Salaries —TUC, JNC
  
  
• Man Jailed For Robbing Lover After Sex
  
  
• Woman Calls In False Bomb Alert In Geneva To Stop Husband From Flying
  
  
• Woman Divorces Hubby For Not Having Toilet In His House

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Murdered French Priest To Be Buried
  
  
• Women Without Appendix ‘More Fertile’
  
  
• Migrant Crisis: Turkey Warned Against ‘Blackmailing’ EU
  
  
• US Election: Trump Says Clinton Is ‘The Devil’
  
  
• Venezuelan Campaign Passes First Hurdle
  
  
• Post-Convention Poll: Clinton Retakes Lead Over Trump
  
  
• Don’t Militarise Niger Delta, Dickson Tells FG
  
  
• Rio 2016 Opening Ceremony To Break With Opulent Games Traditions
  
  
• Nine-Year-Old Stops Woman Taking Newborn Brother From Hospital

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