Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [10 January, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Tuesday, January 10, 2017.


PUNCH:

• Buhari fires FRC boss over Adeboye, others’ tenure
  
  
• Court issues bench warrant for arrest of Kwara chief
  
  
• How I wired Justice Ofili-Ajumogobia’s $120,000 to UK – Witness
  
  
• Alleged fraud: FG to charge SAN along with Justice Ademola
  
  
• Nigerian high commission ddin't pay Kyari's medical bill – FG
  
  
• Prosecute beneficiaries of N156bn ghost workers' salaries – NLC
  
  
• Borno bombers kill eight, missing Adamawa cops found dead
  
  
• Trump names son-in-law senior White House advisor
  
  
• President sacks aviation agencies’ heads, appoints Akinkuotu, others
  
  
• Lagos/Ibadan road: Bi-courtney hails Fashola, wants concession returned
  
  
• Lagos trader tortures nine-year-old boy for stealing
  
  
• School bus kills 18-month-old pupil on premises
  
  
• Court remands man for defiling six-year-old
  
  
• Gunmen gang-rape SS2 pupil in Benue
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Adeboye: CAN excited as Buhari fires FRC chief
  
  
• U.S. Embassy team takes on Magu over DSS allegations
  
  
• $1b debt: Save us, oil marketers beg Fed Govt
  
  
• Refineries production capacity to hit 60% by December, says NNPC
  
  
• Ronaldo is FIFA player of the year
  
  
• Tin Can Island Port 2 Customs generates N8.12b
  
  
• IPMAN blames kerosene scarcity on forex, others
  
  
• LAUTECH to get N500m lifeline
  
  
• Uyo collapsed church built with verbal approval, says Apostle Weeks
  
  
• Buhari appoints new MDs for NAMA, NIMET, NCAT, AIB
  
  
• Labour begins action with NUPENG’s warning strike
  
  
• ‘5,140 tourists visited first storey building in Nigeria’
  
  
• Pastor remanded for ‘cutting’ wife’s breast
  
  
• Police arrest seven suspected kidnappers of ex-minister
  
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• NBA Proposes Law As Second Degree In Nigerian Varsities
  
  
• World Bank Partners State Govts To Protect Lives In Erosion Prone Areas
  
  
• Kaduna Killings: Ulama Council Calls For Sen Laah, CAN President’s Arrest
  
  
• NNPC deficit rises to N18.7bn over oil search in Bauchi, Rivers#
  
  
• Court adjourns ex-NIMASA boss, Akpobolokemi’s case till Feb
  
  
• State Govs Fuelling Niger Delta Crisis— OMPALAN
  
  
• Nwodo, 4 Others Vie For Ohanaeze Presidency
  
  
• Makarfi drags 23 villagers to court over trespass on farmland
  
  
• Edo Child Rights Act Gets Boost As Obaseki Inaugurates Family Court
  
  
• Etsako by-election: My ambition not based on my dad’s political influence —Oshiomhole Jnr
  
  
• Umahi pledges support for Buhari’s 2nd term
  
  
• Workers shut DESOPADEC over end of year benefit
  
  
• Unpaid salary arrears: Kwara teachers embark on fasting, prayers
  
  
• 458 dump APC for PDP in Plateau
  
  
• Digital Switch Over: We’re Not Responsible For Set-Up Boxes Hiccup— Pinnacle