Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [13 April, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Thursday, April 13, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Buhari absent at FEC meeting, remains indoors
  
  
• Commendation as DSS foils ISIS plot to attack US, UK embassies
  
  
• $1.3bn Malabu scam: EFCC raids Adoke’s home
  
  
• Senate panel alleges N30tn forex scam in banks, begins probe
  
  
• FG arraigns Justice Ngwuta before CCT April 20
  
  
• World Bank disburses $13.63bn loans, grants to Nigeria
  
  
• Court dismisses prayer to jail Ambode
  
  
• AMCON takes over three more Arumemi-Ikhide’s firms
  
  
• FG declares Friday, Monday holidays
  
  
• Judges want minimum marriage age specified in constitution
  
  
• We won’t replace Magu, says Osinbajo
  
  
• Lagos to enforce insurance scheme for buildings
  
  
• 18 killed in Kogi, Benue auto accidents
  
  
• Anambra: Flooding renders 98-year-old, others homeless
  
  
• Man captures 60-year-old lover’s nudity, demands N1m
  
  
• Ibadan murder: Witness says lawyer’s husband stabbed self
  
  
• WASSCE candidate, father, mother killed in Lagos
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• EFCC finds $43m, N23m, £27,000 cash in Lagos home
  
  
• Buhari not sick – Lai Mohammed
  
  
• Gun fight at Tompolo’s 46th birthday lecture
  
  
• 50,000 people facing famine in northeast – FAO
  
  
• NNPC to commercialise communication network
  
  
• Senate probes banks over N30tr foreign exchange manipulation
  
  
• NBA wants Court of Appeal established in Kogi
  
  
• Transparency: NGO urges Dickson to emulate El-Rufai
  
  
• MMM ponzi scheme rehabilitates school, donates food items, beds
  
  
• Senate committee bemoans state of 23 IDCs
  
  
• PDP youths give Sheriff seven-day ultimatum to apologise to Jonathan
  
  
• Tambuwal, Dickson, Gwarzo, others bag degrees from Maryam Abacha University
  
  
• Nursing mother, man remanded over kidnap
  
  
• Ritualists kill couple, son at Ibeshe
  
  
• Kaduna investors demand release of N4bn trapped in GFI ponzi-scheme
  
  
• Firm initiates contempt proceedings against Seplat boss
  
  
• Police arrest 13 suspected cultists in Ilorin
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• FG Negotiating With Boko Haram On Chibok Girls—Osinbajo
  
  
• Power Generation Rises To 3,688MW
  
  
• Naira Watch: Naira depreciates to N407/$ as CBN releases $250m
  
  
• FG Confirms Supply Of 1.1m Mt Of Fish
  
  
• Nigerians can now file tax returns online —FIRS
  
  
• 5 die as soldiers, policemen clash over girlfriend in Damaturu
  
  
• Factional IYC crisis disrupts Tompolo’s 46th birthday lecture
  
  
• W/Cup Qualifiers: FG Yet To Apply For Funds
  
  
• We’ve Not Sacked Amapakabo —Enugu Govt
  
  
• Bayelsa Assembly Moves To End Nembe, Kalabari Boundary Dispute
  
  
• Acceptability, NOUN’s Greatest Challenge—VC
  
  
• ICC World Cricket League: Nigeria Bowls Out Zambia
  
  
• Kidnappers of expatriates in A-Ibom demand N100m ransom
  
  

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