Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [16 April, 2017]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Sunday, April 16, 2017.

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• Seized N13bn: Investigators probe Goodluck Jonathan link
  
  
• Bamaiyi is wicked, he laughed when he saw us in chains – Col. Isa
  
  
• Non-oil export sector loses N581bn in two years
  
  
• FG raises monthly pension payment to N7.78bn
  
  
• Practise what you preach, Yari tells Sanusi
  
  
• EEDC, Enugu Assembly fight over electricity bills
  
  
• Accept ruling in good faith, Oba of Benin urges Ize-Iyamu
  
  
• Delta monarchs honour Ibori with traditional title
  
  
• Man pays N42m tithe to Benue church
  
  
• Boat mishap: Seven dead, 136 missing in Kebbi
  
  
• APC’ll produce next Anambra gov, says Moghalu
  
  
• Senators angry with Osinbajo for supporting Magu
  
  
• Gunmen invade Melaye’s house
  
  
• Some generals wanted to blow up plane carrying Obasanjo, others — Col. Oloruntoba
  
  
• Police rescue kidnap victim, kill abductor in Imo
  
  
• Kano rainstorm kills one, destroys 1,000 houses
  
  
• Police arrest man in Ogun for chaining wife to generator
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Boat Mishap: seven die, 136 missing in Kebbi
  
  
• $43million recovered in Lagos not mine, says Amaechi
  
  
• Melaye escapes death as gunmen invade his home
  
  
• UN to cut food aid for Nigeria, as funding falls short
  
  
• Dogara, others for conference on child marriage
  
  
• Nigeria loses over N300bn annually to overseas training
  
  
• Buhari vows to change Nigeria for good
  
  
• Wike turning governance into circus, says Peterside
  
  
• Police arrest two kidnap suspects in Enugu
  
  
• Easter: Buratai urges troops to remain vigilant
  
  
• Salem University gets NUC’s nod for law programme
  
  
• One killed, 1,000 houses destroyed in Kano state rain
  
  
• Fire guts over 12 houses in Bayelsa
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Whistleblower: FG Nets N73 Billion In 4 Months
  
  
• HoS Fires Fresh Memo On Alleged Diversion Of $229,000
  
  
• Libya ‘slave markets’ where Nigerians, others are sold for $200
  
  
• Wike, Amaechi in war of words as mystery over recovered N13bn deepens
  
  
• Easter Shocker: Jesus Did Not Die To Save The World – Prof Abioje
  
  
• BBNaija Winner, Efe, Thanks Gov Okowa, I Go Dye, Others For Their Support
  
  
• Free JAMB Forms For Ondo Youths
  
  
• Red alert over expired fish: NCS intercepts truck load at Idiroko border, arrests suspect
  
  
• Disaster averted as $14m U. J Esuene Stadium sports hall collapses
  
  

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