Nigerian Newspapers Headlines, Tuesday, 16 March 2021

Nigerian Newspapers Headlines

GUARDIAN

Joshua, Fury finally sign 200m two-fight deal to unify heavyweight titles

US outreach to North Korea getting no answer: official

PMS pricing: Stakeholders lament government’s indecision

Gunmen continue unrestrained raids, killings

Kidnappers of two CRC-N members demand N20m

Akeredolu swears in four new commissioners

Gunmen kidnap two female students of OOU, demand N50m ransom

Wike accuses CBN of politicising agricultural loans

Enugu Assembly urges calm over ex-governors pension bill

Ugwuanyi, deputy, chief judge receive COVID-19 vaccine

Iwo elite advise FG on farmer-herder clashes

Nigerian film Eyimofe selected for Borderlines Film Festival in UK

AstraZeneca vaccine’s promise now drawn into question

Five killed in anti-coup demonstrations after Myanmar’s deadliest day

Ondo groups demand stricter law enforcement to end violence, others

Stakeholders to explore Africa commodity ecosystem at investment summit

Pantami, Danbatta seek increased collaboration among ECOWAS states on ICT

Nigeria gets $3 billion from $75 billion invested in Africa’s oil, firms lament

FG must reposition capital market to accumulate global savings

Nigeria attracts $2.6bn FDI in 2020 amid global downturn

Kanye West Wins Best Contemporary Christian Music Album For “Jesus Is King”

Sanwo-Olu, deputy, aides relive nice COVID-19 vaccine jab experience, approve

FRSC impounds 1,250 rickety vehicles in Oyo,Osun, Ondo States

WHO raises nearly $250 million in private donations to fight Covid

Nigeria’s unemployment rate jumps to 33.5%

EFCC witness alleges Shehu Sani hurriedly returned $25,000 to victim

AstraZeneca jab not linked to clotting: co-developer

Hearns blames COVID-19 vaccine for Marvin Hagler’s death

PUNCH

AstraZeneca fear: Vaccination suffers setback, five more countries halt exercise

Police go after OOU students kidnappers, abductors demand N50m

Be vigilant, we cant secure all schools, Federal Government tells parents, others

Govs meet on fuel subsidy, COVID-19 vaccine

Outrage as Ivory Coast unlawfully jails Nigerian lady 20 years

Govtll consult widely before petrol subsidy removal NNPC

Naira-4-dollar scheme ends May 8, banks tell customers

Countries complaining about Nigerias multiple foreign exchange rates- Okonjo-Iweala

Comedian accuses Imo Assembly chief of brutalisation, lawmaker alleges extortion

Afreximbank signs $350m facility for OCP Nigerian, others expansion

NITDA imposes N5m fine on Fintech for data breach

Uzodimma, bad example for democracy Imo PDP

Innoson denies acceptance of crypto for car purchases

Headless body recovered, 15 abducted as Abia communities clash

Why presidency should come to the South-South -Edo PDP

Delta housewife kills husband with machete on arrival from sleeping outside

Subscribers insist on pay-as-you-go billing system

We allocated 0.5% GDP to science, technology Buhari

Adamawa gives automatic employment to best students

Reps begin FG assets recovery in privatised entities

Intl flights: FG announces dates for Kano, Enugu, PH reopening

Nigerias public debt rose to N32.9tn in Dec DMO

Take care of your mouth, expert advises Nigerians

National Assembly, Labour meet today over minimum wage bill crisis

Nigeria now theatre of horror, says Imo Catholic Archbishop

LASTMA and the motoring public

Wike questions FGs claim of road construction, power in Rivers

DPR seals off 8 petrol stations in Enugu for hiking pump price

Nigeria must manufacture more to stop exporting its jobs, says Okonjo-Iweala

Grammy: Nigerians proud of you, Buhari hails Burna Boy, Wizkid

NAFDAC investigates cause of severe vomiting, bloody urine among Kano residents

Sanwo-Olu approves 21-year jail term for cultists in Lagos

Germany halts AstraZeneca jabs over reported clot risks

Over 23 million Nigerians jobless as unemployment rate hits 33.3%

Kaduna abduction: Two pupils found, three teachers still missing -Commissioner                                                                                                  

THISDAY

Military, Intelligence Agencies Step Up Strategy to End Kidnappings, Banditry

Buhari: Burna Boy, Wizkid Have Brought Glory to Nigeria

23.18m Nigerians Jobless as Unemployment Rate Hits 33.3%

NNPC Pledges Support for Fight against Illicit Drugs

CAN Asks Court to Invalidate Controversial CAMA 2020 Provision

FG Dismisses Dokubo’s Formation of Biafra Customary Govt

Nine Bandits Killed in Niger while Waiting to Collect Ransom

FG Suspends Emirates Airlines’ Flights into Nigeria

Nigerians in Diaspora Issue 14-day Ultimatum to House over Wase’s Derogatory…

Ogun Police Confirm Abduction of Two Female Students of OOU

House Begins Probe of FG’s Privatised Public Enterprises

FG Gets Report on Gas Affordability, May Slash Prices

Law Firm Seeks Clarity on FGs Plan to Sell Key National Assets

Nigeria Has 34 Days Petrol Stock Sufficiency, Price Regulator Claims

NEITI Decries Nigerias $3bn Share of Africas $75bn FDI

Shoot-on-Sight Order: Extrajudicial Killing by Another Name

EFCC has Recovered Over N20 Billion Subsidy Loot

SUN

FRC seeks shareholders’ support in implementing audit regulation

BDCs kick against forex speculators, black marketers

Fatigue hits Nigeria’s stock market as investors lose N403bn in 6 days

600m jobs’ll be needed by 2030 ‘W’Bank

SON Council approves 96 new standards

WTO worried about Nigeria’s exchange rate regime, says Okonjo-Iweala

Cultism now attracts 21 years imprisonment in Lagos, as Sanwo-Olu signs bill

EFCC tenders audio evidence in $25,000 bribery allegations against ex-Senator

5 bandits, 4 kidnap victims killed in Niger

AstraZeneca vaccines safety not compromised, PTF assures

Bayelsa flays oil firms over expropriation, insecurity in NDelta

COVID-19 vaccination: NAS warns against hijack of exercise

Army commander suggests night raids of BHaram enclave

Return official vehicles in your custody, Ondo ex-deputy gov told

VANGUARD

Heavy blow:’ Potential Merkel successors weigh losses in state polls

Spain’s deputy prime minister steps down

Panel orders IG to arrest 4 policemen mentioned in alleged extra-judicial killing

Troops kill dozens of ISWAP/Boko Haram, recover sophisticated weapon, sex enhancement drugs

I’m not building ethanol producing company in Benue ‘ Gov Ortom

Action Alliance National chairman describes parallel convention an aberration

Edo PDP demands zoning of presidential ticket to South-South

Those leaving PDP for APC are bread & butter politicians’ ‘ Senator

LCCI seeks Executive Order to reform Customs

Unemployment rate rises further ‘ NBS

Huawei sustains lead in global communications market by 31%

China asks Alibaba to divest media assets ‘ Report

Senate and the forensic investigative professionals of Nigeria bill

2021 UTME: JAMB sets to commence sale of registration forms

Nephrologist raises alarm over worsening cases of kidney disease in Nigeria

Vaccination: Give priority to kidney disease patients, CMA urges Commonwealth countries

Governors to meet tomorrow on COVID-19 vaccines roll out

NAFDAC investigates cause of strange disease in Kano

Governors meet Thursday to delibrate on petrol subsidy, COVID-19 vaccines

Sanwo-Olu approves 21-year jail term for cultists

Banditry:El-Rufai on all-out war against criminality, needs our support ‘ Uba Sani

Hike in Fuel Price: Shame Dangote could build refinery, Nigerian govt couldn’t maintain 4 ‘ Falana

Updated: Why PPPRA lacks constitutional power to determine fuel price in Nigeria ‘ Falana

NDIC to take-on failed banks’ debtors

EQUITIES: Analysts expect further market correction

We’ll not give land to herders in Ondo ‘ Akeredolu

LEADERSHIP

Bandits Abduct 2 Female Students In Ogun

Insecurity: Police Assure Of Diligent Prosecution Of Wakili, Others

Gov Lalong, Deputy Take AstraZeneca Vaccine

B/Gwari School Attack: 3 Teachers Abducted, 2 Missing Pupils Found ‘ Kaduna Govt

Vigilantes Kill 9, Arrest 4 Bandits In Niger

Anxiety As FCT Ministers Avoid COVID-19 Vaccine

COAS Reiterates Troops’ Commitment To Annihilate Boko Haram

COVID-19: Enugu Gov, Deputy, Chief Judge Receive Vaccine

Abductions: Post Armed Guards To Schools Now, Atiku Tells FG

We Are Not Giving Land To Herders, Says Akeredolu

2023: Why Jonathan, Tinubu, Tambuwal, Others Should Stay Off ‘ Coalition

COVID-19 Vaccine: NAS Warns Against Hijack Of Exercise

Katsina To Spend N580m On Security Of Boarding Schools

Igbo Presidency And The Unfolding Power Play

ICT: Nigeria Seeks Increased Collaboration In West Africa

We Are Yet To Appoint Sanusi As Tijjianiyya Sect Leader In Nigeria ‘ Sheikh Nyass

Hoarding: Kano Anti-graft Commission To Seize PMS From Filling Stations

Bill Seeking Removal Of Minimum Wage From Exclusive List Will Die ‘ Aremu Naturally ‘ Comrade Aremu

FG Sets Aside 0.5% Federation Account To Fund Research, Innovation

AGF Advocates Quarterly Audit Of MDAs

COVID-19 Loan: NIRSAL Asks Nigerians To Beware Of Fraudsters

Reps Committee Vows To Recover Billions From FG’s Privatised Companies

TRIBUNE

Local stock market opens week bearish by 0.22 per cent

NITDA fines firm N5 million for data protection breach

NCC restates commitment to protect telecoms consumers

Nigeria records 238 new COVID-19 infections, total now 160,895

Wasinmi killing: How my father, his two wives, three grandchildren were killed, son recounts

End incessant attacks in North, PTA president urges FG, states

How SARS used me to lure, torture my friend, witness tells NHRC panel

Sanwo-Olu approves 21-yr jail term for cultists, signs Anti-Cultism Bill, 3 others into law

FCTA begins administration of COVID-19 vaccine to Abuja residents

COVID-19: AstraZeneca vaccine safe, Sanwo-Olu reassures Lagosians

Herdsmen killers: Coalition of Nigerians in Diaspora threaten to halt $23bn annual remittances, petition Buhari, NGF, others

NATION

CAN sues Fed Govt over CAMAs bad provisions

Buhari to Okonjo-Iweala: despite our support, you earned WTO position

How Nigeria can avert economic collapse, by Okonjo-Iweala

NBS: Unemployment rose to 33.3% in Q4

How Amotekun can secure Southwest, by Afenifere

Reps to recover govt assets, funds in privatised firms

2023: Southsouth, Southeast begin push for consensus presidential candidate

Electoral Reforms Bill for passage in second quarter, says Lawan

How gunmen killed family of six in Osun

FG reopens Kano, Enugu, Port Harcourt airports for international flights

Alleged $25,000 fraud: EFCCs plan to play alleged conversation of Shehu Sani, accuser stalled

Wikes kinsmen, Niger Delta elders, others disown Asaris Biafra

Govs meet Wednesday on petrol subsidy, others

Fleeing notorious Ibadan kidnap kingpin arrested in Ogun

Alleged N322m fraud: Senator Nwaoboshi knows fate April 19

Killings, destructions getting out of hand- Northern elders

DAILY TIMES

Kaduna State Govt confirms the abduction of pupils, teachers at Birnin Gwari

Insecurity: Unknown gunmen kill two persons in Bauchi

Nothing Is Working In Nigeria Again Senator Slams Buhari, APC

Destruction of APC Properties by PDP in Mubi its a direct declaration of war Sen Abbo

Crisis as group declares planned Kaduna PRP State Congress illegal

COVID-19: 70% of Nigerians must be vaccinated to declare country safe

APC may disintegrate if its leaders dont correct errors

FG averts economic crisis amid banks, telecom companies feud

India to propose cryptocurrency ban, penalizing miners, traders source

Russia accuses U.S. of using IT to engage in unfair competition

China aims to improve family doctors services

Covid-19 test compulsory for all FCTA workers

Insecurity: Killings, destructions in Northern region getting out of hand Elders cry out

Gunmen kidnap two OOU female students in Ogun

IPOB calls Governor Uzodinma unrepentant fraudster for saying group hijacked ESN from South-East Governors

DAILY TRUST

Beware of COVID-19 third wave, PTF tells Nigerians

FG to reopen Kano airport April 5

CAMA: CAN sues FG

Biafra govt a theatre of the absurd — FG

Pharmacists tasked on COVID-19 vaccine, drug research

2 dead, 160 hospitalised as strange disease spreads in Kano

Sanwo-Olu approves 21-year jail term for cultists

Sanusi’s appointment as Tijjaniyya leader didn’t follow modalities – Nyass

Wakili, 2 others transferred to CID

HERALD

Washington Post corrects fake story that claimed Trump asked Georgia to ‘find the votes

Grammys: Burna Boy, Wizkid’s awards will open doors to other aspiring citizens ‘ Buhari

SPV to Run National Theatre for 21 Years After Revamping ‘ FG

WTO DG job impossible without Buhari’s personal intervention ‘ Okonjo-Iweala

8 Petrol Stations Sealed for Selling Above Approved Pump Price -DPR

Wike Accuses CBN Of Playing Politics With Agric Loans

Catholic Church Can’t Support Same-Sex Unions’ ‘ Vatican Reveals

JUST IN: Anthony Joshua, Tyson Fury Unification Deal Signed

AUTHORITY

Consumer satisfaction, central organizing principle of our regulatory activities, says Danbatta

Sofola assures of quality teaching, as Eko University of Medicine & Health Sciences matriculates 36 students

Familylifers.com will enhance wealth creation, employment, crime reduction, says Adewale

Consumer satisfaction, central organizing principle of our regulatory activities, says Danbatta

Sofola assures of quality teaching, as Eko University of Medicine & Health Sciences matriculates 36 students

BREAKING: Ngozi Okonjo-Iwealas Father, Prof Okonjo, Dies At 91

BUSINESSDAY

Nigeria’s streaming industry booms but data cost slows growth

Here’s how good infrastructure promotes devts in Alaro City

Makeup in COVID times: Women’s beauty taste changes

Nigeria’s weak relationship with Spain needs to be strengthened for trade ‘ Seriki

Residents gain as Lekki Pearl estate’s EDGE certification reduces energy cost

BREAKING: Unemployment in Nigeria hits 33%, highest on record

Commercial paper tops financing options as four firms raise N27.41bn in two months

DAILY INDEPENDENT

CAN Drags FG To Court Over CAMA

35yr-Old Man In Court Over Alleged Stabbing Neighbour With Broken Bottle

I Will Do My Best To Reposition PDP In South-West ‘Arapaja

Why FAAN Boss Appealed For Suspension Of 25% Contribution To Federation Account

How Nigeria, Others Can Add Value To Crude Oil ‘ AfCFTA

PEOPLESDAILY

C/River North: INEC sets to miscarry justice in senatorial re-run

Reps summons FIRS, 24 others over failure to render accounts

Mother’s Day: Reps Minority Caucus hail Nigerian Mothers

President Buhari’s rail projects deliberate attempt at job creation ‘ Amaechi

Navy redeploys 257 senior officers

FCTA gives reasons for eligible Nigerians to take COVID-19 vaccine

Kano taskforce seizes fake drugs worth N6b in 9 years

Digital Switch Over: C’ttee assures residents of FCT, Plateau of full coverage

NEW TELEGRAPH

Govs to decide on new fuel price tomorrow

NBS: Unemployment rate hits 23.1m in Q4’20

CBN: FG’s Q4′ 2020 revenue falls to N2.2trn

Sanwo-Olu okays 21-year jail term for cultists

WTO frets over Nigeria’s multiple exchange rate

Finally, CAN sues FG over CAMA

FG’s debt to GDP ratio increases by 14.7% in five years

BLUEPRINT

Banditry: El-Rufai on all-out war against criminality, needs our support ‘ Uba Sani

2021 Grammy awards: Buhari congratulates Burna Boy, Wizkid

NDDC: Okon again warns Akpabio over South/south govs’ politics

COVID-19: PTF warns of possible third wave, lack of bed space despite vaccines availability

Anambra: Legal Aid Council to offer free services to PWDs

COVID-19: AstraZeneca vaccines’ safety not compromised, PTF assures Nigerians

NIGERIAN PILOT

Nigerias 0.33% share in World Trade is a small fraction to boost economy

Governors to meet on COVID-19 vaccines issues

Buhari makes major reshuffle across aviation agencies

Gov Lalong , deputy, others receive COVID-19 vaccine

Youth inclusion empowerment through N-Power, other NSIPs

Moving minimum wage from Exclusive List will pauperise workers Group

Insecurity: BMO welcomes PDP Governors support for Buhari

Conduct LG elections or forget about guber poll Group warns Obiano

 

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