SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 30/01/2020

Punch

Military widows fault planned release of 608 repentant militants

Insecurity: Senators hit Buhari hard

US conviction: Court dismisses suit seeking Omo-Agege’s sacking

Police may file charges against Wadume next week

Boko Haram kills two, steals fish at military checkpoint

EFCC arrests landlord for housing Internet fraudsters

Police quiz NSCDC boss over Imo senatorial candidate’s killing

Nigeria owes World Bank $9.81bn, says DMO

Foreign direct investment dips by $408.28m

Agric mechanisation programme begins April

Pneumonia can kill two million Nigerian children – UNICEF

NUEE gives ministry 14 days to pay disengaged workers

Eredo earthwork gets $.4m US grant

Borno gov appoints Yoruba, Ibo men as advisers

Uzodinma forfeits security votes

Robbers kill PoS operator in Osun

Gunmen abduct octogenarian in Ondo

Rally ban: Obaseki vows to deal with Oshiomhole

Policemen raid Lagos hotels, arrest workers, customers

Half naked women protest community invasion in Ebonyi Govt House

Lassa fever victims flee to Ondo, death toll rises

Unknown sickness kill four in Benue

I told my son to sack his secretary to avoid adultery – Adeboye

(www.punchng.com)

The Nation

Insecurity: Senators, Reps push for Service chiefs’ sack  

Amotekun desperate response to security challenges, says Speaker 

Civil servant gets life jail for raping minor in Abuja  

Coronavirus: Fed Govt warns against travelling to China  

Coronavirus: NIDCOM boss urges Nigerians in China to say indoors

Southeast joint security outfit ready, says Governors’ Forum 

Fashola: Paucity of funds threatens Minna-Suleja, 15 other highway projects 

Presidency attacks senator for asking Buhari to quit  

NAF deploys in-country refurbished aircraft against insecurity  

Electricity workers threaten strike over failed agreement with Fed Govt  

JAMB hands over 38 ‘fraudulent’ CBT centre owners to security agents  

NLC berates ‘recalcitrant’ governors over minimum wage non-implementation  

Physically-challenged occupy Lagos High Court 

Fayemi swears in perm secs 

Makinde visits IGP over council crisis, Amotekun  

Oyetola to reverse demotion of civil servants 

Sanwo-Olu signs issuance of N100b bond 

Cleric fakes own kidnap, demands N5m ransom 

Five ‘kidnappers’ held as seven-year-old rescued in Katsina 

Robbers kill Osun Corps member 

Six injured as Lagos market burns 

(www.thenationonlineng.net)

Vanguard

FG to repatriate additional $321m Abacha loot

Call for Buhari’s resignation: Abaribe ought to have replaced Nnamdi Kanu in Correctional Service — Presidency

Alleged N1.1b fraud: Court orders EFCC to produce witnesses against Ex-Bauchi gov’s son

Court strikes out suit seeking Oshiomhole's ouster

Nigeria's oil, gas earnings up 3% to N5.54trn

Pneumonia: 2m children risk death in Nigeria — UNICEF

Nigeria key to ending child labour in Africa - ILO

NDLEA convicts 8 drug peddlers in Imo

Imo: Declare seats of defectors vacant, PDP tells INEC 

World Hijab Day: Groups decry discrimination against women in hijab 

Obaseki not responsible for Edo Assembly crisis — Speaker

FG AGRIC PROGRAMME: Choice of Ogun, testimony of our policy on agriculture - Abiodun

Plateau Govt.to enact anti-land grabbing law

Abia council to prosecute landlords channelling wastes to roads

Enugu govt approves N30,000 minimum wage effective Feb

Delta Poly students in peaceful protest over welfare

Oshevire debunks crisis in UPU

Navy photographer wins award at Calcutta Film Festival

Police arrest pastor for staging his own kidnap in Kaduna

(www.vanguardngr.com)

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