Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [13 December, 2016]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Tuesday, December 13, 2016.

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Atiku: Nigeria’s unity negotiable
  
  
• Nigeria targets $60pb oil price, forcados exports January
  
  
• Rivers rerun: PDP wins two senatorial seats, APC kicks
  
  
• Ugwuanyi lauds NDLEA for busting drug syndicate
  
  
• Gunmen abduct 35 women in zamfara
  
  
• CDS Olonisakin retires next week –Presidency
  
  
• Tambuwal calls for prayers as solution to Nigeria’s woes
  
  
• Nigeria’s roads require N320bn for maintenance annually –FERMA
  
  
• Lokpobiri declares war on fake seeds
  
  
• EFCC to arraign six banks for laundering N4.9bn
  

PUNCH

• Go after pension thieves, retirees urge FG
  
  
• We’ll construct 400 dams before 2019, says Buhari
  
  
• Police probe death of three corps members, invite pathologist
  
  
• Prisons service promotes 10,979
  
  
• Presidency finalises plan to sell two aircraft
  
  
• Ronaldo wins fourth Ballon d’Or award
  
  
• Falcons should continue protest – Mbachu
  
  
• Continental Reinsurance appoints Ogunshola as new chairman
  
  
• We contested against Army, INEC, FG, APC in Rivers rerun – PDP
  
  
• Lagos to build five arts theatres
  
  
• Osinbajo pays 2-day official visit to Algeria
  
  
• Gambia: ‘Jammeh plotting to use Nigerian lawyers to remain in office’
  
  
• Rivers rerun: We’ll be more prepared in 2019 -Wike
  
  
• APC will sweep Obiano out in 2017 – Ngige
  
  
• Avoid beer parlours, MASSOB warns Igbo youths#
  
  
• Oil jumps to 18-month high on output deal
  
  
• Pipeline vandalism: FG to establish special paramilitary force
  
  
• FG, SunTrust Bank partner on N13bn housing scheme
  
  
• Nigeria to save N2bn annually from Internet hosting
  
  
• Tenant flees home with neighbours’ 10-month-old son
  
  
• Army school commandant murdered in Ibadan
  
  
• Suspect invests Emefiele’s ransom in provision store
  
  
• Clearing agent arrested for hiding N4bn drug in hair
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Buhari, Mahama, others for Gambia to tell Jammeh: go
  
  
• 12-man EFCC, NEITI panel to find NNPC’s missing $12.9b
  
  
• Rivers: PDP wins two seats
  
  
• ECAD wins Captain’s Cup polo tournament
  
  
• Tinubu seeks final push against Boko Haram
  
  
• I didn’t approve data tariff increase for telcos, says Shittu
  
  
• KSA’s guitar auctioned for N52m at 70th birthday bash
  
  
• 17 states to benefit from Fed Govt’s $29.9b loan
  
  
• Afenifere opposes BoI scrapping
  
  
• BoI backs SecureID’s 200m capacity SIMcard plant
  
  
• ICAO to African govts: address air safety
  
  
• Agric, backward integration can reflate economy, says Ambode
  
  
• Ports hurdles may hamper policy on imported vehicles
  
  
• Regulator, operators bicker over data tariff ‘hike’
  
  
• Army colonel murdered in Ibadan home
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Death In NYSC Camp: My Daughter Nursed No Ailment – Father Of Deceased
  
  
• I’m Not Affected By Recession— Stan Ekeh
  
  
• Rivers Rerun: PDP, APC Dispute Polls Result
  
  
• Pay Super Falcons Their Money
  
  
• Yoruba Leaders Demand Review Of Revenue Allocation Formula
  
  
• FOI: SERAP Sues Saraki, Dogara Over N500bn Running Cost
  
  
• Coronation Anniversary: My Agenda On Course— Olu Of Warri
  
  
• Rising Food Prices: Ex-CBN Director Calls For Review Of Interest Rate
  
  
• ‘Senator Sani’s Suspension, Invitation To Anarchy’
  
  
• Ambode, Emefiele Advocate Financial Innovation To Tackle Economic Recession
  
  
• We Need To Carry Out Census Of The Disabled – Gbadebo
  
  
• CP orders DPO to submit report on Synagogue stampede
  
  
• Woman, her one-yr-old baby detained over plantain theft; rescued by Owoseni
  
  
• Girl, 3, seeks N0.54m for hearing aid