Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [21 August, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Sunday, 21 August, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Emefiele elected President of African Central Bank governors
  
  
• INEC begins nationwide voter registration soon – Chairman
  
  
• I left JAMB better than I met it — Ojerinde
  
  
• Rivers: APC, PDP bicker over inconclusive polls
  
  
• PDP crisis: Ex- govs, ministers attack Sheriff
  
  
• N649bn bad loans: Banks to sell over 1,000 debtors’ properties
  
  
• Ondo: Tinubu, APC leaders can endorse candidate, says Odigie-Oyegun
  
  
• Pipeline attacks: FG imports Russian war helicopters, UAVs from Dubai
  
  
• Workers groan as govs, aides, commissioners receive salaries
  
  
• We’re not recruiting APC members for Edo poll –INEC
  
  
• APC’s style not helping Nigeria –PDP
  

VANGUARD:

• Nigerian Music Industry To Mark “No Music Day”
  
  
• N96 Trillion Oil Revenue: How Nigeria Short-Changed Oil Producing Areas
  
  
• Abuja Made Governors Lazy — Anyim
  
  
• NFF Congratulates U-23, Clears Air On Japanese Man’s Money
  
  
• Buhari Is Overwhelmed By Challenges—Pastor Akanbi
  
  
• Crimes Of Recession? Rising Ritual Killings, Kidnapping, Armed Robbery
  
  
• OIL PIPELINES’ BOMBINGS: Avengers Bow To N-Delta Leaders’ Plea
  
  
• Kogi, Building Strong Anti-Corruption Structures- Governor’s Aide
  
  
• I’m In Canada, Not Hiding Out In Ghana, Amanda Ebeye Tells Pregnancy Rumour Mongers
  
  
• Day I Begged For Money At Airport – Anita Joseph
  
  
• ‘Economic Recession: Nigerians Have Realised Electing APC Was A Costly Mistake- Usman
  
  
• Boko Haram 23,000 Killed, 2.15M Displaced — Civil Society Network
  
  
• 'MAGUN’: Pastor Dead ‘After Extra-Marital Sex’
  
  
• FCT Reels Under Heavy Toll Of The Absence Of Key Officials
  
  
• Edo 2016: Factors That May Favour Ize-Iyamu
  
  
• 20 Days To Poll: Mass Defection Hits PDP

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• We Have No Anointed APC Candidate For Ondo Gubernatorial —Odigie-Oyegun
  
  
• Fake Malaria Drugs In Circulation, FG Warns
  
  
• Prepare For Harder Times, Experts Tell Nigerians
  
  
• Boko Haram Abducts Many, Kills 7 In Borno Village
  
  
• Labour Party Wins Oyo Assembly Bye-Election
  
  
• N/Delta Leaders Urge FG To Stop Further Deployment Of Military Hardware To Region
  
  
• Man Who Abandoned Wife To Marry Her Mum Seeks For Divorce

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Militants Blow Up NPDC’s Major Trunk, Delivery Line In Delta
  
  
• Update Your Knowledge, Buratai Tells Soldiers
  
  
• SECESSION THREAT: ‘Avengers’ll Get Biafra Treatment’
  
  
• Falling Reserves Cast Doubt Over CBN’s Naira Defence
  
  
• Boko Haram: Over 23,000 Killed, 2m People Displaced – Group
  
  
• FG Declares Polio Emergency As WHO Pledges Support
  
  
• ABUAD Is A Template In Engineering, Science And Medicine – Vice Chancellor
  
  
• Your Life Span Depends On How Long Your Parents Live
  
  
• Paucity Of Cash Not Affecting Nite Clubbing, Womanising In Nigeria
  
  
• CAN President: Nigeria Increasingly Hostile To Christians
  
  
• Oyegun: Tinubu Free To Endorse Guber Aspirant
  
  
• PDP To APC: You Can’t Deceive Nigerians With Lies Again
  

THE NATION:

• Olympics: Nigeria bags Football bronze
  
  
• Boko Haram: Dialogue won't stop our rescue mission – Burutai
  
  
• Lagos ready to propagate brand awareness
  
  
• Benteke completes Crystal Palace switch
  
  
• Police arrest two officers for mounting roadblocks in Bayelsa
  
  
• Ebonyi governor suspends commissioner
  
  
• Padding: Dogara, others must face panel
  
  
• Suspected ritual killers arrested in Delta
  
  
• Alleged N63.6m fraud: How MOD Staff died in EFCC custody – Cellmates
  
  
• Battered corps member: NYSC to decide next week
  
  
• Court will decide Edo PDP candidate – INEC chairman
  
  
• FG alerts Nigerians over fake malaria drugs

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