Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [22 May, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are the headlines in some major Nigerian dailies today, Monday, 22 May, 2017.

PUNCH:

• FG requires $1.21bn to revive Ajaokuta Steel Complex
  
  
• Oil subsidy gulped N9tn in 10 years, says Oando chief
  
  
• Ngilari’s release: Sagay demands prosecution of prison officers
  
  
• Abaribe tackles Amaechi over S’East exclusion from $5.9bn rail projects
  
  
• Troops arrest six female Boko Haram terrorists, kill 13
  
  
• Write petitions against corrupt judges, CJN tells Nigerians
  
  
• N100bn needed to reconstruct Apapa road — Fashola
  
  
• Cameroonian Navy visits Calabar, urges collaboration against maritime crime
  
  
• PDP factions trade insults as Supreme Court hears appeal today
  
  
• NCAA declares Ethiopian Airlines’ deportation tax illegal
  
  
• 446 cultists arrested, 24 prosecuted in Delta, says CP
  
  
• Ayade okays relocation of NYSC camp
  
  
• Fadama project: Umahi pays N110m counterpart fund
  
  
• PDP shuns probe into killing of 50 Rivers residents –NHRC
  
  
• Court sacks Anambra LG caretakers, orders fresh poll
  
  
• Okomu Oil Palm spends N20m on whistle blowers
  
  
• Demand for toads rises in Jigawa
  
  
  THE NATION:

• Fed Govt, states, councils, share N1.41trn from federation account
  
  
• Troops kill 13 Boko Haram members in Lake Chad
  
  
• Nigeria’s oil production per barrel costs over $20
  
  
• Makarfi kicks as Sheriff urges court to shun appeal
  
  
• Fed Govt’s agents, politicians threaten judiciary, says CJN
  
  
• Almajiri is unIslamic, says Sultan
  
  
• Navy trains special forces on counter-terrorism
  
  
• OGFZA gets 35,000-hectare from Bayelsa for free zone project
  
  
• LAUTECH hospital workers protest unpaid salaries
  
  
• El-Rufai orders probe of rifles found in accident car
  
  
• 10,000 youths empowered by ExxonMobil, NBA, Africare
  
  
• Fafowora to deliver Herbert Macaulay lecture
  
  
• BA slashes Abuja-London route fare
  
  
• Navy trains special forces on counter-terrorism
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  

• Nigeria Earns $296,143 Dividends From Islamic Dev’t Bank
  
  
• SGF Lawal, NIA’s Oke remain suspended – Osinbajo’s Presidency
  
  
• AMCON Takes Over Wokson International Over N5bn Debt
  
  
• IPOB To Army: Accept Responsibility For Your Action Against Our Women
  
  
• S-East Senators Tackle Amaechi Over Omission Of S-East, S-South From Rail Corridor
  
  
• Miners urge FG to purchase mining equipment from N30bn intervention fund
  
  
• Collapsed Lagos Building: Death Toll Now Four
  
  
• Anambra Man Accussed Of Product Counterfeiting Knows Fate Tomorrow
  
  
• Cartel Responsible For Benue’s Huge Wage Bill— Gov Ortom
  
  
• Advocates Of Military Rule’re Enemies Of God —Okowa
  
  
• Channels Kids Cup: Ghana, Benin Arrive
  
  
• 2 Arrested In Enugu Over N370,000 Job Scam
  
  
• Let’s Export Education To The North – Okorocha
  
  
• JNI, CAN Join Immunisation Campaign In Sokoto
  
  
• Crisis In Delta Varsity Over Closure Of Staff Club
  
  
• 10 Banks Rake In N138bn From Alerts, E-Services In 1 Yr