Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [20 January, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Friday, January 20, 2017.

PUNCH:

• IDP camp bombing: NAF panel summons war commander, pilots
  
  
• We've no choice but to borrow $30bn – Adeosun
  
  
• 30 vehicles destroyed as Kano traffic officers, operators clash
  
  
• FG bars MDAs from spending Internally Generated Revenues
  
  
• Bishop’s son jailed for conning Oyedepo, others
  
  
• NSCDC arrests vandals, illegal miners in Plateau
  
  
• We seized 15,048 vehicles during Yuletide –FRSC
  
  
• Teenager dies as friend kicks his stomach
  
  
• Motorcyclists abducts three-yeaar old twins on way to school

• Gunmen kill Lagos community leader, Togolese, abduct caterer
  
  
  THE NATION:

• Buhari on 10-day leave
  
  
• UN: Barrow is legitimate president
  
  
• Ex-CJ to EFCC: Ekweremadu, Ezeh after me
  
  
• Lagos councils to get 181 roads
  
  
• IDPs camp bombing not deliberate, says British High Commissioner
  
  
• Air Force begins probe of accidental air strike
  
  
• Stakeholders seek transparency in N46b fertilizer deal
  
  
• AfDB lauds Nigeria’s leadership role in Africa
  
  
• Buhari restates govt’s commitment to Bakassi Deep Seaport
  
  
• Ambode mourns Govt House reporter
  
  
• APC: Fayose using phony contracts to swindle councils
  
  
• Edo, BIU to generate electricity from waste
  
  
• Obaseki inaugurates Agric committee, targets 80,000 jobs
  
  
• Kwara denies outbreak of Lassa fever
  
  
• N20b lifeline coming for Anambra MSMEs
  
  
• OYSIEC ready for Feb 11 polls
  
  
  VANGUARD:

• Reps condemn non release of N70bn 2016 judiciary allocation
  
  
• No going back on sale of power assets – Fashola
  
  
• Nigerians more familiar with UK’s sport, history – British Airways’ survey
  
  
• LG Poll: ‘LASIEC’s Guidelines’ll Determine Qualification Of Aspirants’
  
  
• Witness’ Absence Stalls Synagogue Building Collapse Trial
  
  
• 2 Die, 4 Injured In Bauchi Road Crash
  
  
• Arrested PREMIUM TIMES publisher, Dapo Olorunyomi, journalist freed
  
  
• NUJ, Afenifere Condemn Arrest Of Premium Times’ Publisher, Reporter
  
  
• Ohanaeze Laments Low Representation Of Igbo In Federal Cabinet
  
  
• Policy Failure Looms Over Ban On Land Border Vehicle Imports
  
  
• Obaseki Inaugurates C’ttee On Devt Of Gelegele Port
  
  
• NAHCO Appoints Arc Bello As New Chairman
  
  
• US-bound woman dies in Lagos auto crash
  
  
• 44-yr-old Jigawa woman loses sextuplets at birth