Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [23 June, 2016]

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Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Thursday, 23 June, 2016

PUNCH

• Kano: Yoruba leader’s killer to die by hanging
• Court stops probe of ex-gov Shema
• Again, suspected herdsmen kill 13 in Benue
• Ambode seeks support for youth empowerment
• NDLEA advises parents to counsel children on drugs
• ‘Stop politicising crimes’
• Why we shunned INEC peace parley – Rivers APC

VANGUARD:

• Ayade To Boost Electricity Supply In Calabar With 180 Transformers
• No To Scrapping Of Post-UTME Tests
• Boko Haram Fracturing, Says US General
• BOKO HARAM: Insurgents Flee Lake Chad Axis Under Massive JNTF Pounding
• MASSOB Petitions NJC Over Detained Members
• Group Wants N1.3bn Posting Fees By Corps Members Probed
• Nigerians Spend $100m On Cancer Treatment Abroad
• DHQ Retires 464 Military Personnel
• Lagos Seals 30 Illegal Patent Medicine Stores, Pharmacies
• PROTEST: Adeosun Bows To Staff As Calm Returns To Finance Ministry
• Ambassadorial Nominees: Senate Vows Not To Commence Screening
• We’ll Demolish Your Houses, Okowa Warns Kidnappers, Collaborators
• Do Your Job Or Get Sacked, Ugwuanyi Warns Teachers
• Assembly Grants Wike Approval To Access FG’s N41.16bn Facility
• Employ Physically-Challenged As Special Assistants, Ikpeazu Directs TC Chairmen
• Seek Int’l Accreditation, Nigerian Hospitals Told

GUARDIAN:

• CBN sustains dollar auction, Naira records first gain
• Knowledge key to Nigeria’s competitiveness, says Utomi
• Joint health workers begin seven-day warning strike today
• Reps applaud TSA, to probe actual proceeds
• South-South monarchs move to curb militancy

THE NATION:

• FG, States, and LGs Share N305.128bn for May Allocation
• One dies as Micreants Fight in Lagos
• Alleged Diversion of Funds: Airline, Bank, disagree
• DSS arrests former Army Chief Ihejerika
• APC to Mimiko: Explain how you spent Ondo funds

• Reps bill to protect social media users passes second reading

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• Ogun govt denies diversion of bailout fund
• TASCE lecturers not on strike —Management
• FAAC shares N305.1bn for May
• Reps set up ad hoc panel to probe N2.9trn TSA
• N500bn aviation intervention fund: Jimoh Ibrahim, UBA disagree at Senate panel
• Tension in Anambra community, as Igwe-nominee dies 2 days after nomination •Community in court
• Health workers begin strike •JOHESU directs members to stay at home
  

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