Metro Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [28 February, 2017]

[PressRoom]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Tuesday, February 28, 2017.

PUNCH:

• Arms scam: Obanikoro’s wife loses Abuja mansion to FG, appeals
  
  
• CBN pumps fresh $180m into forex market
  
  
• N754.7m theft: Akpobolokemi’s co-defendant disowns confessional statement
  
  
• Malabu: Adoke, ex-finance minister under fresh probe, says EFCC
  
  
• Crisis: Labour Party suspends chairman, others
  
  
• Bad leadership, not God, responsible for Nigeria’s woes — Obasanjo
  
  
• Govt empowers 3,000 widows, senior citizens, others
  
  
• LASG to crush 4,000 motorcycles
  
  
• Embattled Pinnick learns fate today
  
  
• My clothes are Made in Aba – Ngige
  
  
• UNIOSUN threatens to expel 4,410 students over N2bn debt
  
  
• Anti-graft coalition urges EFCC to probe ex-UNICAL bursar
  
  
• Akeredolu vows not to collect salary until workers are paid
  
  
• Kwara Assembly summons MTN over mast installation
  
  
• A’Ibom to reintroduce Ibibio language in schools
  
  
• Nigeria, Algeria, others lost $1tn to oil crash – OPEC
  
  
  THE NATION:
  
  
• Presidency: Osinbajo is executing Buhari’s policies
  
  
• Naira gains more as CBN pumps in $180m
  
  
• PDP crisis: Makarfi warns of breakdown of law and order
  
  
• Customs seizes 9000 bags of rice in Ibadan
  
  
• South Africa attacks on Nigerians, others continue
  
  
• GSMA: Mobile ecosystem revenues hit $3.2tr
  
  
• Fed Govt requires N10b to remove ship wrecks in Lagos
  
  
• National Assembly may seek auction of 2,500 containers, 6,000 vehicles
  
  
• FIRS seals Kabo Airline, others over N200m tax liabilities
  
  
• Air Peace Boeing 737 aircraft suffers ‘burst tyre’ in Lagos
  
  
• Facebook seeks more Nigerian content online
  
  
• Lagos to crush, recycle 4000 seized Okada
  
  
• GenCos warn of imminent blackout over N601b debt
  
  
• We‘ll review BPP Act, says Minister
  
  
• IPMAN threatens strike, accuses Depot owners DPR of extortion
  
  
  VANGUARD:
  
  
• FG’ll Diversify Economy Through Made-In-Nigeria Goods — Minister
  
  
• Suswam remains in detention as bail bid flops
  
  
• Presidency activates $20bn Ogidigben Gas Industrial project
  
  
• $1.2bn Malabu Deal: Shell, Agip To Know Fate On OPL 245, March 13
  
  
• Labour Party Splits, Sacks National Chairman, Two Others
  
  
• FAO Planting Seeds Of Hope To Avert Famine In Northeastern Nigeria
  
  
• Protest As Singer, Another Die In Lagos Police Cells Over IPhone
  
  
• Oil Marketers Hoarding, Manipulating Fuel Price — DPR
  
  
• Speed Limiting Device: FRSC Prosecutes 33 Traffic Offenders In Delta
  
  
• FG Apologises To S’East Over Herdsmen’s Activities
  
  
• Board shuts Delta secondary school as students beat up teachers
  
  
• Sapele Residents Shut Down Warri-Benin Highway Over Electricity
  
  
• West African surgeons urge govt action to stop brain drain
  
  
• Man Whose Hand Was Severed By Crane Begs For Lifeline