Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [02 February, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Thursday, February 02, 2017.

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Nigerian Delivers Quadruplets, Owes UK Hospital N152m
  
  
• Obiano To Okorocha: You Can’t Escape From Your Questionable Past
  
  
• FG Moves To Halt Rising Food Prices
  
  
• Drama As Britain Deports 82 Nigerians, Ghanaians
  
  
• Market Operators Owe N100bn Wheeling Charges – TC
  
  
• Trump Nominates Neil Gorsuch As Supreme Court Judge
  
  
• FG Tasks States To Avoid Drug Expiration
  
  
• Ortom: I May Work With Suswam In 2019

PUNCH:

• FG’s request for Dasuki secret trial undemocratic – Fayose
  
  
• Worst leadership is in the church, says Adeboye
  
  
• Arms cash: Obanikoro returns N30m, to pay N417m more
  FG to raise VAT on champagne, other luxury items
  
  
• CBN to penalise banks with cash problems
  
  
• Investment inflow to Nigeria drops to 10-year low
  
  
• Workers ground TCN, resist MD’s removal by Fashola
  
  
• Arik Air passengers stranded at Abuja airport
  
  
• Ambode endorses death penalty for kidnappers
  
  
• Egypt win shootout to reach AFCON final
  
  
• Rangers players grumble over land allocation delay
  
  
• Police arrest fake lawyer who practise at Supreme Court
  
  
• Ogun nurses protest decay in health sector
  
  
• Woman dies after sex romps in guesthouse
  
  
• Soldier beats rider to death after car hits motorcycle
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Fed Govt sets up panel to bring down food prices
  
  
• Forex trading: CBN to suspend defaulting banks for eight weeks
  
  
• Ondo House crisis halts Mimiko’s budget presentation
  
  
• Court remands ex-minister’s son in prison
  
  
• Dasuki: Court rejects N2b suspect’s bid to travel abroad for treatment
  
  
• Fayemi slams N3b libel suit on Fayose’s aides
  
  
• Patience Jonathan: Court strikes out suit against SERAP
  
  
• Cash crunch hampering fight against crimes, says IG
  
  
• Power generation rises to 3,528 megawatts
  
  
• UAE firms to produce 30mw from municipal waste
  
  
• Firms blame forex scarcity for power problems
  
  
• 4,000 cases of Leprosy are reported annually in Nigeria
  
  
• Oyo receives N7.2b Paris Club refund
  
  
• Army: soldier under probe for brutalising woman
  
  
• Lagos to invest $500m in housing
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• 41 Nigerians sent home by UK arrive Lagos airport
  
  
• RECESSION: Foreign investment inflow down by $4.5bn in 2016
  
  
• Stockbroker in N4.8bn share scam, remanded in Ikoyi prison
  
  
• Kidnappers Of Akwa Ibom Varsity Don Demand N10m Ransom
  
  
• Seized Pump Action Rifles: Operators Blame Releasing, Examination Officers
  
  
• Emecheta Was Instrumental In Developing African Women Literary Tradition — Akachi Ezeigbo
  
  
• US Govt Making Moves To Resolve N-Delta Crisis —Consul-General
  
  
• Lagos Targets 2 Million People For Agric Empowerment Schemes In S-West
  
  
• Church Leaders Are Law-Abiding, Says Northern CAN
  
  
• People With HIV More Likely To Develop Diabetes —– STUDY
  
  
• NSCDC Warns Against Illegal Private Security Outfits