Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [08 October, 2016]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Saturday, October, 08, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Abductors demand ransoms for kidnapped Lagos pupils, teachers
  

• APC feud: Fayose condemns attack on Tinubu
  

• Airports concession: Turkish company, politicians, others lobby FG
  

• School feeding: FG fails to meet September take-off target
  

• Atiku, others hail FG over withdrawal of charges
  

• Biographer reveals Buhari’s problem with APC leaders
  

• Saraki, Ekweremadu’s forgery trial, a distraction –Senate
  

• Ondo gov poll: APC to investigate Tinubu’s anti-party moves
  

VANGUARD:

• Wike Threatened, As His Resists Police, DSS Attempt To Abduct Judge
  
  
• Chief Dennis Okwu: Restive Youths Kidnapped And Killed His Father But Now He Engages Them In His Philanthropic Gestures
  
  
• Nemesis Will Catch Up With Our Bad Leaders—Paul Unongo
  
  
• Lalong’ll Fail, PDP Chieftain Says Of Probe On Jang
  
  
• Recession: UNILAG Alumni Optimistic Of Early Exit
  
  
• Edo Election Rigging Was Like A Bad Home Video Act — Orbih, PDP Chairman
  
  
• Gov’s Cup Tennis: Ndanusa Challenges Nigerians To Excel
  
  
• Foluke Daramola’s Daughter Turns TV Host
  
  
• Governor Ugwuanyi Swears In Acting Chief Judge
  
  
• Banned Hausa Actress, Rahama Sadau Resurfaces In EbonyLife TV New Drama Series
  
  
• Fayose Condemns Attack On Tinubu
  
  

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• YORUBAS SHOULD DEFEND TINUBU –FAYOSE
  
  
• ALLEGED MTN N500M BRIBE: Buhari’s Chief Of Staff Writes EFCC, ICPC
  
  
• ALLEGED $15.5M FRAUD: Court Upholds Guilty Plea Of Firms Linked To Patience Jonathan
  
  
• BAYRAY McNWIZU: I Can’t Hide It When In Love
  
  
• El-Rufai Bans Shi’ite Group In Kaduna
  
  
• Coronation Of New Oba Of Benin Begins
  
  
• NLC Pickets Expatriate Firm Over Workers’ Sack
  

THE NATION:

• Recession: Governors adopt desperate measures to stay afloat
  
  
• 74-yr-old arrested for defiling two girls
  
  
• ‘We mistook the kidnappers for hunters’
  
  
• Between Uwais and Nnamani on electoral reform
  
  
• Probe my children if corrupt, Buhari tells EFCC
  
  
• Nigeria too big to fail, says Adeosun at World Bank forum
  
  
• Oyegun to Tinubu: let’s unite for Ondo poll
  
  
• Kidnappers of Lagos students, teachers demand ransom
  
  
• Fayose condemns ‘conspiracy’ against Tinubu in APC
  
  
• Financing 2020 Olympics: Afe Babalola, Mary Onyali to the rescue
  
  
• Court orders AMCON to pay Ubah’s Capital Oil and Gas N26bn
  
  
• ‘REASON DANCERS ARE NOT RESPECTED’
  
  
• Bigwigs relocate families over fears of abduction
  
  
• My most memorable experience as an Islamic preacher —Sheik Muyideen Ajani Bello
  
  
• Omokore’s counsel alleges vilification of client by EFCC, media