Punch
- Submit budget details to NASS by Friday, Buhari orders MDAs
- Rail projects: Buhari approves negotiations for $15bn loan
- Stolen $3bn could have built seven roads, 2nd N’Bridge —Osinbajo
- NNPC to drill eight oil wells in Chad, Gongola Basins
- Airline operators welcome FG’s delayed signing of Africa trade treaty
- FG re-arraigns Kanu’s co-defendants, says IPOB leader is at large
- JAMB withholds 111,981 UTME results
- Navy arrests three, seizes foreign rice worth N16m
- DSS abducts Lagos port worker at midnight, denies whereabouts …Falana decries action
- Nigeria’s population growth poses security threat, says UK envoy
- Two cultists arrested for cutting off corpers’ hand
- Police arrest 15-year-old SSS2 pupil with gun
- Newborn twin stranded in hospital over N1.5m bill
- ABUAD hospital begins operation today
- Govt rescues beggars, homeless children from Lagos streets
- Ex-inmates kill Lagos Uber driver, sell car for N350,000
- Nasarawa man throws daughter into well for alleged witchcraft
(www.punchng.com)
The Nation
- Buhari, Namadi Sambo meet in Aso Rock
- Senate to hold valedictory session for late member today
- DHQ faults Amnesty’s report on Dapchi
- Riot policemen to secure Northeast’s schools
- Kachikwu to IOCs: reduce oil production cost
- NAFDAC returns to ports
- Okupe to Sagay: reveal pay of Buhari, Osinbajo, Saraki, others
- Nigeria can never survive without North, says ACF
- Middle Belt Forum seeks declaration of herdsmen as terrorist group
- Ladoja’s trial: N180m not remitted to govt, says witness
- Key witness in Kalu’s trial flees to Cameroon, says EFCC
- Court dismisses suit to sack Bello
- Fayose, Ewi row over demolition in Ado-Ekiti
- Dismissed policeman paraded for ‘robbery’
- Ahmed calls for state of emergency on drugs
- Kano to get Appeal Court
- INEC: over 600,000 PVCs unclaimed in Oyo
- ECWA pastor assassinated in Bauchi
- Expectant mother, five others die as building collapses in Ondo
(www.thenationonlineng.net)
Vanguard
- N150bn ‘shared’ in 2015: You lied, Jonathan replies Osinbajo
- We need Buhari’s permission to effect withdrawal of personnel from VIPs – IGP
- Nigeria’s Economic Growth Outlook Positive — Adeosun
- Security Agencies Should Patronize DICON, Says NIS Boss
- Police Officer ‘Who Ordered Apo Killings’ Promoted To AIG
- Court Dismisses Forgery Charge Against Lagos Traders
- Seasonal Health Hazards: Clean Your Way Out Of Dry, Dusty Weather
- Ikpeazu Revolutionises Health Care Service In Abia, Set To Pilot Telemedicine In The State
- Scandal Hits School Feeeding Programme In A-Ibom, As Vendors Petition FG, EFCC
- Delta Assembly Approves N3bn Facility For Okowa
- Kogi places 5million Naira bounty on Omala killers
- Imo Residents Cry Out Over Herdsmen Killings
- RSIEC Seeks CAN’s Prayers In Council Polls
- Youth Raises Alarm, As Landslide Ravages Ijaw Community
- I service 4 men nightly, collect N1,000 per round — 17-yr-old sex worker
Guardian
- You are a serial liar, Jonathan tells Osinbajo
- Two years after talks, Nigeria’s currency deal with China stalls
- Mikel, Moses cannot win matches alone, says Rohr
- Nigeria’s economic growth outlook positive, says Adeosun
- PDP getting set to win 2019, says Makarfi
- WHO warns Nigeria, 15 other African countries of listeriosis outbreak
- Army yet to confirm report of freed Dapchi schoolgirls
- Dapchi girls freed by abductors
- Adewolu tasks UBTH, UNIBEN on research, training
- NCS seizes 16 exotic vehicles, detains five suspects
- At security parley, Obaseki okays 36 patrol vehicles to secure Edo State
- Pogba tantalises with Neymar comments
- Enyimba in Pot B, MFM, Plateau placed in C, Akwa in D as draw holds today
- Anthony Joshua not bothered by weight speculation
- Newcastle United must change if they are to progress, says Benitez
- This is my last chance to win World Cup, says Messi
- Abia hosts first Chioma Ajunwa Foundation U-16 Athletics Championships this weekend
- An IGP Nigeria does not need
- Time to tell the North: Think
- Fashola again assures Nigerians of steady power supply
- At global money week, NSE promotes financial literacy
- PoS Innovation summit holds in Lagos
- Timely reflections on United States – African relations
- Water: The right of each of us, the challenge of all
- Watch: Flavour and Semaj On “Power And Glory”
- Style Crush Of The Week: Nene Ndukwu
- Mali Has Some Amazing Sites You Need To See
- $408m Internet access funds idle in Nigeria, others
- Operator brings 10,000 wi-fi hotspots to Lagos for broadband
- Mitratech partners Union Systems for strength
- Youths ask governors to ban open grazing in South East
- Veterans, newbies clash in New Money
- How coffee counteracts effects of cannabis, induces weight loss
(www.guardian.ng)
ThisDay
- $9m Cash Allegedly Discovered in Home of Ex-Amnesty Boss, Boroh
- Baru: NNPC to Right-size, Not Fire Workforce when PIGB Becomes Law
- Electoral Bill: Malami in Court, Says N’Assembly’s Intimidation of Judiciary Unfortunate
- AU Summit Prepared to Sign Free Trade Treaty without Nigeria
- Swiss Authorities Block Accounts Linked to Malabu Oil Deal
- Executive, Legislature Take Budget Controversy to the Streets
- Former Vice-President Sambo Visits Buhari
- Aide Asks Redeemed Overseer, Adeboye to Call Osinbajo to Order over Jonathan Comment
- 9mobile Sale: NCC Writes CBN, Insists on Technical Competence of Preferred Bidder
- Oil Price Hits $67 over Middle East Tensions
- Middle Belt Forum Declares Herdsmen Killings Ethnic Cleansing
- FG Targets 7% Growth, Says Economic Outlook Positive
- FG Re-arraigns Four IPOB Members on Amended Three Count-Charge
- FG Negotiates $15bn Loan for Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Rail Project
- AGF Backtracks, Asks Ojukwu to Step Down as Executive Secretary of NHRC
- DHQ Debunks Amnesty International Claims on Kidnapped Dapchi School Girls
- Oil Producing Communities Protest against Shell, Petition Senate
- Again, Yoruba Elders Demand Restructuring Ahead of 2019 Elections
- ACF Urges Buhari to Tackle Insecurity
- Senator Links Increased Herdsmen Killings to Released Boko Haram Members
- Osinbajo Calls for Lagos-Ogun Regional Economic Integration
- Buhari Congratulates Putin, Merkel on Their Re-elections
- APC, FG Operatives Intimidating My Doctors
- Arms Importation: Kogi Governor’s Aide Sues Melaye, Seeks N100m Damages
- Court Dismisses Suit Seeking to Remove Kogi Governor
- Osinbajo Inaugurates Boards, Warns Members against Graft
- FG Declares 2.1m Metric Tonnes of Fish Supply Gap
- Ijaw Youths Set Agenda For New Amnesty Boss
- PDP Replies Orubebe, Says It Won’t Fail Nigerians
- Fayose, Monarch Exchange Barbs Over Demolition of Property
- Obaseki to Integrate Vigilantes, Hunters into Edo’s New Security Architecture
- PTA Accuses FGC Ikot Ekpene Principal of Corruption, Petitions Education MInister
- Okupe Asks Sagay to Reveal Running Cost of Buhari, Osinbajo, N’Assembly Leaders, Others
- Suspected Herdsmen Wreak Havoc Along Oyo-Kwara Highway
(www.thisdaylive.com)