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

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

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• Army sets up Board of Inquiry, detains six soldiers for brutalising woman
  
  
• FG cuts fertiliser price by half
  
  
• Customs suspend import duty payment on old vehicles
  
  
• FG makes a U-turn, allows helicopters into Abuja airport
  
  
• We’ve no case to answer, Justice Ademola, wife tell court
  
  
• Fayose owed me N250m legal fee — Ozekhome
  
  
• UN, Nigeria, Cameroon sign agreement on 65,000 IDPs
  
  
• Local miners to benefit from N30bn intervention fund
  
  
• Afenifere kicks as police arrest Ife monarch, 14 indigenes
  
  
• Power outage stalls Kogi assembly sittings
  
  
• Four female bombers, two victims die in Borno
  
  
• Police, FRSC abandon kids after mother dies in crash
  
  
• Court remands couple for bathing woman with acid
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Buhari presides at FEC meeting
  
  
• Senate rides on DSS ambush to reject Mag
  
  
• Senate again summons C-G Ali for grilling today
  
  
• PDP crisis: Sheriff frustrating peace process, says Makarfi
  
  
• NCC, CBN join forces to save Etisalat from creditors
  
  
• Sagay: No law stops Magu’s renomination
  
  
• Senate wants govt to access $300m anti-malaria fund
  
  
• EFCC: Fayose paid Ozekhome from N1.2b Dasuki’s slush fund
  
  
• Alleged N1.4b fraud: Fed Govt files charges against Peace Corps’ boss Akor
  
  
• Bello demolishes kidnappers hideout
  
  
• Ogun doctors protest decay in health sector
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• Senate Threatens Arrest As Customs C-G Fails To Appear
  
  
• Northern Christian Youths Back Apostle Suleman
  
  
• NAFDAC appeals as NBC declares Fanta, Sprite safe
  
  
• Illicit Transfers: Minister Dares NASS, Redeploys Unity College Principals To Abuja
  
  
• Fayose paid N75m into Ozekhome’s account from N1.2bn Dasuki’s funds – EFCC
  
  
• Senate rejection means Magu immediately ceases to act as EFCC Chairman – Ozekhome.
  
  
• Banks Increase Lending Rates In Q1 – CBN
  
  
• Enforce Directive On Relocation Of Oil Firms To N-Delta, Lawmaker Urges FG
  
  
• Mother Of 4 Electrocuted In Delta
  
  
• Ondo Timber Traders Protest Closure Of Forest Reserves
  
  
• Ife Clash: Afenifere, OPC Kick Against One-Sided Arrest