SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 13/01/2020

Punch

Osinbajo, govs hail troops on Armed Forces Remembrance Day

Boko Haram abducted my constituent returning to school –Plateau senator

Panel probes N14.3bn NEPZA fund moved to private account

Katsina judge handling Shema’s fraud case dies

Bayelsa appeals judgment ceding oil wells to Rivers

Bandits release kidnapped customs officers, seek peace

TCN to push for Discos’ recapitalisation

States may be penalised for pension default –Ex-PenCom DG

EFCC has frozen Shehu Sani’s accounts – Aide

Geological agency declines to name tremor alarmist

Border closure effective only in South, difficult to enforce in North –Ex-Director, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

NSE delists A.G Leventis from daily official list

Amotekun: Anambra, Enugu differ on South-East security outfit, South-South delays project

Operation Amotekun: Carry illegal arms, be arrested, police warn OPC, hunters

Gunmen abduct APC secretary in Abuja, demand N10m ransom

Buhari’s daughter wrong to use presidential jet –Falana

Inaccurate leadership succession is Nigeria’s bane, says Bakare

Don’t stop Operation Whirl Stroke, Sule, Ortom tell Buhari

EKSUTH sackings: Labour, Ekiti reach agreement, strike suspended

Benue fixes N4,500 for mock WASSCE

Ogun ex-deputy gov, former PDP secretary join APC

Imo burglar jumps to death from two-storey building

Cobbler rapes graduate, shares nude video with friends

(www.punchng.com)

The Nation

Buhari, governors, others hail Lawan at 61

Gbajabiamila greets K1 De Ultimate on chieftaincy

CBN report shows improvement in consumer confidence  

Adeboye seeks 50% cut in governors’, lawmakers’ salary

Eight million farmers to benefit from 16,000 geo-clusters scheme    

Ritual: Police arrest five for stealing under wears 

Mechanic gets three months for belonging to ‘Aiye’ cult

Equities’ N1.2tr two-year high leads global stock markets  

Zulum: we will eradicate thuggery in Borno  

Tinubu, Falana, bid Beko’s widow farewell  

Ihedioha receives relief materials for flood victims 

Shiites to El-Rufai: you cannot stop justice  

Oshodi-Abule Egba BRT corridor ready in May – Sanwo-Olu  

Border closure not to obstruct legal businesses – Customs  

Lagos leaders commend launching of “Operation Amotekun” 

No plans to float new party with Tinubu, Atiku- Maku 

No law backs President’s family to use official jets, says Falana

Bayelsa APC: Lokpobiri’s supporters kick against court judgment  

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

Vanguard

89 SOLDIERS KILLED IN JIHADIST ATTACK ON CAMP IN NIGER 

MNJTF Kills ISWAP top commander Khalifa Umar, three others

FRSC debunks claims by VIO that 85% of vehicle owners parade fake driver license

DPR to issue licence to NDPR for additional 5,000bpd modular refinery

NDLEA arrests 88 drug traffickers in Sokoto

War of wits: Lawyer allegedly sues FG, AGF, CBN over Arabic inscription on Naira, as Reno fires back 

Life pension: SERAP asks court to order 36 governors to publish payment details since 1999

Ecobank unveils N70bn agric financing scheme

Western Lotto to employ 20,000 youths in 18 states

Oshodi-Abule Egba BRT corridor ready in May – Sanwo-Olu

Lagos leaders laud launching of ‘Operation Amotekun’

Lagos goes after commercial motorcyclists, begins enforcement of traffic law

Gunmen injure, disarm police officers in Delta

Falana to Buhari: Your children cannot use presidential jets

Gombe philantropist sponsors indigenes to study in Moroccan universities

(www.vanguardngr.com)

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