Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [08 February, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Wednesday, February 08, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Buhari didn’t give us date of his return —Senate
  
  
• CJN: Osinbajo set to send Onnoghen’s name to Senate
  
  
• ICPC seizes 62 houses from female officer
  
  
• Forex supply drops to $700m monthly
  
  
• Nigeria paid N2.7tn for darkness in 16yrs – Dogara
  
  
• Convert mosques to schools – Sanusi
  
  
• Senate committee screens ambassadorial nominees using lamp
  
  
• Centenary City: Reps grill ex-minister, walk out lawyer
  
  
• 116 Nigerians killed in S'Africa in two years – FG
  
  
• Tension in Katsina as EFCC drags Shema to court
  
  
• Lagos takes hijab case to Supreme Court
  
  
• Skye Bank promotes 300 workers, sacks 55
  
  
• Abia says N3bn wage unsustainable
  
  
• Teachers protest DSS brutality, storm governor, Speaker’s offices
  
  
• Lagos painter bites off friend’s nose during fight
  
  
• Friends abducted during birthday freed after ransom payment
  
  
• Trailer loses brakes, kills polytechnic undergraduate
  
  
• Come back home, mother of triplets begs fleeing husband
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Nigeria’s greatest problem is hate, says Osinbajo
  
  
• Wike, police clash over alleged N111.3m bribe
  
  
• No need for emergency sitting over Buhari’s letter, says Senate
  
  
• CBN mulls $50b biofuel equity fund
  
  
• NCDMB: we ‘ll support Nigeria Machine tools
  
  
• Nigeria to auction N142b Treasury bills
  
  
• PDP crisis: Makarfi hopeful of victory at Appeal Court
  
  
• Alleged N2.2b fraud: AGF withdraws charges against Supreme Court’s officials
  
  
• Court orders freezing of Ozekhome’s N75m account
  
  
• Six Lagos Assembly PDP lawmakers set for APC
  
  
• Mimiko ‘has no plan to leave before February 24’
  
  
• Amosun, Awosika urge youths to be enterprising
  
  
• LAUTECH: ASUU demands release of report
  
  
• Obaseki signs budget, Contributory Pension Act
  
  
• Six travellers kidnapped in Kogi
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• We’ll No Longer Import Fuel By 2019 – Kachikwu
  
  
• Re-run elections: Rivers govt bribed 23 polls officials with N360m – Police
  
  
• FG Steps Up Quality Of Export-Bound Agric Products
  
  
• Sanusi’s statement on converting mosques to schools is mischievous — Junaid
  
  
• Army To Recruit Eligible IDPs
  
  
• Gunmen Raid Cleric’s House In Delta
  
  
• Frozen account: Ozekhome kicks, says Fayose paid me N75m as legal fees
  
  
• Ondo Doctors Commence Indefinite Strike Over Unpaid Salaries
  
  
• Edo Tribunal: How My Sister Based Abroad Was Accredited —Witness
  
  
• Court Suspends Proceedings On Ecobank’s Suit Against Honeywell
  
  
• Labour Directs TCN Workers To Shut Networks If…
  
  
• Gov Lalong Loses Appeal Against Sacked 271 Councillors