Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [05 January, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Thursday, January 05, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Acciental gunshot injures two in Aso Rock
  
  
• Police raid Patience Jonathan's house in Abuja
  
  
• Woman abandons newborn twins over hospital bill
  
  
• FG slashes import duties on 115 items
  
  
• Sahara, Oando, MRS, 36 others win NNPC crude lifting contracts
  
  
• Vehicle importation ban through land borders stays – FG
  
  
• It's a shame Nigeria imports foods - IFAD president
  
  
• 13 power plants lose 3, 124MW to gas shortage
  
  
• More firms show interest in mega port/FTZ
  
  
• Man gets N100, 000 bail for stealing N5, 000 wire
  
  
• Hoodlums stab 35-year-old to death in Lagos
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Obasanjo: Awujale lied about Adenuga, Dangote
  
  
• Awujale: Obasanjo fought Adenuga because of Atiku
  
  
• Buhari okays arms for airport security
  
  
• Fayose raising false alarm, says ex-Governor Oni
  
  
• APC plotting to remove me from office, says Fayose
  
  
• ‘1 million policemen needed to cover Southern Kaduna’
  
  
• Arrested Boko Haram commanders to fellow terrorists: repent
  
  
• Three suspected female suicide bombers killed in Adamawa
  
  
• Telecom subscribers hit 153.9 million, says NCC
  
  
• CBN directs banks, MfBs, DFIs to disburse N220b agric funds
  
  
• ITF laments yearly dip in govt funding
  
  
• Electoral violence: INEC receives 120 casefiles from police
  
  
• Panic in Ebonyi community as IED is found in stream
  
  
• Zamfara gives N139m to victims of banditry
  
  
• ‘N400m fraud’: EFCC probes NNPC cooperative society
  
  
• Kerosene sells for N400 in Kano
  
  
• Army to hold route march tomorrow in Abuja
  
  
• Nigerian, two Chinese held for elephant tusk smuggling
  
  
• 15 suspected cultists arrested in Ondo
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Electricity Generation Hits 4,009MW, Improves Gradually
  
  
• 2017 Budget: FG Allocates N1bn To Lake Chad Commission
  
  
• Information Ministry To Spend N661m On Travelling/Refreshment
  
  
• UN DEP SEC SEAT: ‘Amina Mohammed’s Appointment Not Payback For GMO’
  
  
• Ebonyi Set To Conduct LG Elections In First Quarter
  
  
• IPAC Reaffirms Ultimatum On Obiano To Conduct LG Polls In Anambra
  
  
• No War Against Buhari’s Appointees In A-Ibom — Emmanuel
  
  
• Oyo State Difficult To Govern – Ajimobi
  
  
• FG Redeploys 3 Perm Secs
  
  
• Police Present N15.4m To Families Of 30 Deceased, Maimed Officers
  
  
• Doctor Docked Over Death Of Pregnant Woman
  
  
• Abia Govt Suspends Traditional Ruler
  
  
• Rohr: Door Not Closed On Home-Based Players