Dear Reader, welcome to the month of February,
Below are the Newspaper Headlines For Wednesday February 1st 2017,
NEW TELEGRAPH*
Muslim Group Urges Ministry To Regulate Religious Preaching
Extradition: SANs Tackle US, NDLEA Over Kashamu
Ex-CJN S Collect, Share Bribes To Judges –Sagay
Archbishop To Religious Leaders: Don’t Incite Followers
Budget: Osinbajo, Saraki, Dogara Meet In Aso Rock
NYSC DG To Corps Members: Be Bridge Builders
Residents Protest Benin DISCO’s Billing System
Senate’s 3-day Dissection Of 2017 Budget
Governance Must Be Anchored On Service To The People – Jimoh
N’West Confidence Vote On Buhari And 2019 Question
Who Wants Buhari Dead?
Kashamu Battles For Survival
PDP: Gana’s C’ttee Shifts Submission Of Report To Feb. 7
Banks Brace For Scrutiny As Earnings Season Looms
Analysts Doubt Recovery Of N561.1bn Looted Funds
NPA, Customs To Attract FDI With Single Window
CBN: January Manufacturing PMI Falls To 48.2
Forex Policy: Coalition Group Urges Support For FG, CBN
Stevedoring: Govt Loses Revenue To Unauthorised Contractors
Anonymous Presidential Communication
Controversy Over Big Brother Nigeria In South Africa
AFCON: Egypt Chase History Against Burkina Faso
President Buhari Condoles With Dalung
Renard Open To Lead B’ Bafana Against Nigeria
Djokovic: Federer’s Win Boost For Tennis
Ambode Has Provided Prize Money -Olopade
NWFL Mourns Dalung’s Wife
Three Friends’ Kidnappers Demand $30,000
Illegally Refined Kerosene Floods Delta
Rivers CP, Odesanya, Dies At 56
Four Men Gang-rape 11-year-old Pupil
10 Killed In Taraba Communal Clash
Immigration Repatriates 101 Aliens
That Misnomer At Umaru Yar’Adua Varsity
Obasanjo’s Nod For Ogun West In 2019
An Igbo Man’ll Contest 2019 Presidency – Okorie
Banks Brace For Scrutiny As Earnings Season Looms
NSE Industrial Index Records Highest Decline In 2016
Nigeria Saves N271.6bn From Rice Import
*VANGUARD*
Why I Can’t Be Called A Bench Warmer In The House — Rep Jimoh
UNICEF, NOA Sensitize Igbo Nursing Mothers On Breast Feeding
We’ve Recovered Sensitive Boko Haram Documents—LAI MOHAMMED
After Court Victory Ibori To Return Home Soon
2017 Budget: Saraki, Dogara, Adeosun, Udoma Confer With Osinbajo
Akwa Ibom: We’ve Forgiven PDP, But Not Forgotten Their Deed — Efanga
Man Allegedly Swindles 3 American Women Of $3,437
Bring Killers Of Ben Onyechere To Book, Orji Tells IG
N44.1b To Fight Malnutrition In North-East—UNICEF
Anambra: Our Continuity Plan Was Scuttled – Obaze
FG, IOCs, NDDC Agree On N-Delta Devt Template
NAFDAC Receives Accreditation Certificate From American Agency
Edo Election Tribunal: PDP Witnesses Confess Using Fake Addresses, Signatures
Army Embarks On Barracks’ Agric Project To Keep Women, Youths Busy
Cameroon Boycott Training Over Bonus
Burkina Faso Dare Egypt
FA Cup: Ikeme Happy To Confront Victor Moses
Apostle Suleiman: How CAN Brokered Peace With DSS
2015 Election Cost N1 Trillion – INEC
Why We Need NASS’ Approval For $30bn Loan – Amaechi
Foreign Reserve Now $27.4bn
CJN: Afenifere Gives Buhari Ultimatum To Forward Onnoghen’s Name
How Justice Ademola Requested N25m Bribe To Grant Me Bail – Witness
Beware Of Fake Vanguard Websites
Burna Boy To Fans: Earn A Degree Before Pursuing Dream Career
Hip Hop Artistes At War Over Nationwide Protest
BBN: On Gifty Marital Status: Fans Flood Hubby’s Facebook Page
Big Brother Naija : 3 Housemates Up For Eviction
Finally, PMAN Set To Hold Delegates’ Conference, Elect New Leaders
I Didn’t Misappropriate N15m, Says Suspended Ondo Speaker
Zakzaky: Buhari’s APC Led Govt Number One Law Breaker In The Country – Fayose
Adebayor Joins Istanbul Basaksehir
Aubameyang: I Want To Leave Dortmund
*DAILY TRUST*
Workers’ salary: Caution Bello, Kogi APC chieftains urge FG
Buhari calls Dalung, condole him over wife’s death
‘Saraki accepts Chief of Staff’s resignation’
N1.2billion Fraud: EFCC to arraign Bala, ex-FCT Minister’s son tomorrow
PHOTONEWS: Heavy rainfall causes traffic gridlock in Lagos metro
Electricity: Lagos residents protest ‘4 months of darkness’
Ortom denies ceding Agatu land to herdsmen
Man removes clothes, runs naked in Utako
Those wishing Buhari dead dare God – Ortom
FCT council to establish microfinance bank
Cameroon not threat to Eagles’ World Cup ticket – Siasia
Taraba state reintroduces annual school games
NBBF targets Afrobasket Championship title with D’Tigress
Ichull, Makama sure of victory over unbeaten Plateau Utd
Serena picked as greatest female player
Enyimba star Bassey joins Barcelona
‘Prize money for access Bank Lagos City Marathon ready’
Saraki lauds SWAN at 53
Buhari, NWFL condole Dalung
FG powers 200 Abuja homes with solar, targets 20,000
Aviation crisis: 10 Aero planes stuck at Lagos airport
Oil price: Exxon Mobil earnings tumble by $8.3bn in 2016
Med-View Airline listing adds N14bn to market cap
FG in a fix over national carrier
Rebels in deadly attack on Saudi warship
Customs declares 2 officers wanted over seized rifles
Atiku denies hands in Oba Akiolu’s forced retirement
Govt to ban full-face veil in public places
Bomber kills varsity graduate in Maiduguri attack
Rebels in deadly attack on Saudi warship
Govt to ban full-face veil in public places
Lawmakers begin debate on Brexit
Coup attempt: UN demands release of Rwanda case judge
King hails ‘return home’ to AU after 33 years
What I discussed with APC leaders on SGF — Shehu Sani
Yorubas in North rally support for Buhari
What shocked me as Kogi gov — Bello
Judiciary has ended Fayose’s dictatorship — Aluko
I turned down ministerial, deputy gov offers from APC — Tata
Foundation strategises against polio, child killer diseases
FG to set up NAFDAC labs across the country
My brother’s lungs have failed
‘People should not patronise open drug markets’
Do not eat Suya without vegetables
Cameroon not threat to Eagles’ World Cup ticket – Siasia
Taraba state reintroduces annual school games
NBBF targets Afrobasket Championship title with D’Tigress
Ichull, Makama sure of victory over unbeaten Plateau Utd
Serena picked as greatest female player
*SUN*
Igbo presidency in 2023: Okorocha on his own –Ohanaeze
•Gov’s call okay, say others
Pere Ajuwa dies at 76
Military arrests Boko Haram sponsors
•2 politicians, traditional ruler, Islamic clerics in custody •Graduate, awaiting NYSC call-up, bomber killed in blast
Having lost Sambisa, Boko Haram now goes for media war –Lai Mohammed
2019: No problem with mega party if…, says Saraki
We’ll dislodge APC, PDP -Sani, mega party chair
… Says it will be suicidal for INEC not to register party
Cooking gas prices soar amidst NLNG’s 26,000mt supply
Airlines rake in N719.4bn from tickets sales in 21 months
…As FG seals BASA with Bahamas, Seychelles
We’re not in charge of oil block funds –NNPC
China move: Ighalo completes medical check
• As Eagles winger joins Barca
AFCON 2017: Egypt seeks victory over Burkina Faso
Rangers patron commends Ugwuanyi over Chukwu
Ibori returns to Nigeria soon
Anyaoku, ex-Commonwealth scribe, to chair The Sun Awards
Osinbajo flags-off 20,000 solar powered lighting systems
Stop making incisive comments, DSS warns Apostle Suleiman
*THISDAY*
Suicide Bomber Kills Vigilante at Maiduguri Mosque
Boko Haram ambushes police convoy on highway
Court Dismisses Appeal against Fayose’s Unfrozen Account
FORBES Afrique Interviews 14-year-old Zuriel Oduwole for February 2017 Edition
Okah Seeks Court’s Permission to File No Case Submission
Publisher Still in Detention after Court Orders His Release
APC Not Opposed to SGF’s Corruption Probe, Says Shehu Sani
Orient Petroleum Partners Àrgentil, Dharmattan on Gas Development in Anambra Basin
Lagos Moves to Sanitise Petroleum Product Storage Facilities and Depots
Pakistan Foreign Minister: Purchase of Our Military Aircraft by Nigeria Huge Breakthrough for Us
Senate: Establishment of Maritime University in Niger Delta Non-negotiable
Amaechi, Alhassan, Jibrin, Others Eulogise Nigerian UN Deputy Secretary General-designate, Mohammed
ADP Promises to Replace Civil Rule with Democracy in Nigeria
Atiku Denies Link with Oba Akiolu’s Retirement from Police
Witness: My Wife Wrote Petition Alleging Demand for N25m Bribe by Justice Ademola
NEITI Incorporates FOI Clause to Advance Extractive Sectors’ Transparency
Gbaramatu Kingdom: There’s No Plan by Niger Delta to Secede
SANs Tackle U.S., NDLEA over Kashamu
OPEC Records 82% Compliance on Output Cuts
NBS: Telecoms Subscriber Base Rises to 154.5m in Q4 2016
Apostle Suleiman: IPOB Decries Hypocrisy of DSS in Handling National Issues
NTIC Kidnapping: Police Arrest Two More Suspects, Recover N3m
Sharia: Man Jailed for 12 Months for Selling Alcohol
Senate Committee Begins Investigations into Southern Kaduna Crisis
HURIWA Urges N’Assembly to Pass Law Criminalising Blackmail, Prescribes Seven Years Jail Term
Benue Has Not Ceded Any Land to Fulani Herdsmen, Says Ortom
LASG Cancels Official Number Plates, Orders Re-issuance
Faleke Leads Delegation of Kogi Stakeholders to Aso Rock
Tertiary Health Institutions Want TETFund for Infrastructure development
More Firms Eye Commercial Paper Funding, Market Attracts N240bn
JTF Foils Attack on Mosque in Maiduguri
In Reopening in 2nd Qtr, Forcados Pipeline Set to Boost Oil Exports
Nigeria’s Manufacturing Index Declines in January
FG Plans to Issue $300m Diaspora Bond by June
Groups Drums Support for FG, CBN
Fitch Revises Lagos’ Outlook to Negative; Affirms ‘B+’ Rating
UBA strengthens brand Afiliation on Nigerian Campuses
Forte Oil Records Profit Before Tax of N5.3 Billion, Pays No…
INEC Sets up Committee to Review Electoral Constituencies
INEC Probe Panel to Submit Report Next Week on N23bn Bribery…
LGs in Search of Autonomy
Fake Dollar Syndicate Nabbed in Lagos
Practicing “Wantedness”: Five Key Ways
Ambode’s Massive Infrastructure Plan
Carl Ikeme Up against Victor Moses’ Chelsea in Fifth Round
Transfer: Odion Ighalo Close to China Deal
*PREMIUM TIMES*
Nigeria declares senior Customs officials wanted over importation of rifles
Two officials were declared wanted Tuesday night.
Fresh violence erupts in Taraba, 10 killed
Strip police of power to prosecute criminal cases, Judge advises Nigerian govt
Southern Kaduna Attackers Not Punished For 35 Years – El Rufai
No Work, No Pay: Nigerian Govt Warns Striking Polytechnic Lecturers
Osinbajo Meets National Assembly Leadership On 2017 Budget
Court Throws Out EFCC’s Appeal On Fayose’s Bank Account
Police, SSS, Army To Join In Enforcement Of Speed-limiters — FRSC
Afrobeat Singer, Dede, Storms Out Of Radio Interview After Clash With Femi Adesina
Saraki’s Chief Of Staff Resigns
Ajaokuta Will Help Nigeria Save $5 Billion From Importation
Witness Contradicts Self In Trial Of Accused Judge
Atiku Denies Being Behind Oba Of Lagos Forced Retirement From Police
EFCC To Arraign Ex-Minister Bala Mohammed’s Son For Alleged N1.2 Billion Fraud
Ogun Assembly Passes Bill Upgrading MAPOLY To University
Protest In Ekiti After Traditional Ruler Allegedly Shoots Resident Dead
N15 Million Scandal: Suspended Ondo Speaker Denies Wrongdoing
CJN: Onnoghen’s Confirmation Will Test Buhari’s Religious, Ethnic ‘bias’ — Lawmakers
Suleja Depot Fire Will Not Affect Petrol Supply – NNPC
Tributes Pour In For Late Nigerian Minister
Man With Over 80 Wives Buried
Yola Market On Fire
Court Adjourns Trial Of Borno Council Chairman Accused Of Diverting 300 Bags Of Rice Meant For IDPs
13 Killed In Multiple Accidents In Gombe
President Buhari Is Sick, So What?, By Ahmed Oluwasanjo
The Naira Is Dead: Lets Redenominate The Currency Before Its Too Late!, By Paul Alaje
El-Rufai: A Critic’s Desperation For Silence, By Immanuel Ibe Anyanwu
Illegal Arms: A Threat To Nigeria’s Existence, By Bámidélé Adémólá-Olátéjú
2017 Health Budget: A Long Walk To Reaching The Global Target For Nutrition, By Jayne Arinze-Egemonye
Ruggedman Blasts Blackface For Condemning 2Face-led Anti-govt Protest
Nigeria Can Produce 3 Million Barrels Of Crude Per Day, Says Kachikwu
Global Oil Output Falls By 1.07 Million Bpd In January
Kaduna Electricity Company Seeks Govt Help In Getting Bank Credit
AfDB Introduces New Model To Allow Faster Disbursement
EPL: Iwobi Scores As Arsenal Suffer Shock Defeat
Elsewhere, Liverpool and Chelsea shared the spoils at Anfield as their game ended in a 1-1 draw.
Nigeria’s Ezekiel Bassey Joins Barcelona
Nigerian Defender, Taye Taiwo Joins Swiss Club
Liverpool 1-1 Chelsea | Wijnaldum Cancels Out Luiz’s World-class Freekick
Christian Chukwu heads Rangers FC new management
Lagos roads to be closed for Marathon race
AU Approves Libya Peace Plan, Calls For New Unity Govt
Obama backs protests against Trump’s Refugee Order
Trump fires acting Attorney-General for refusing to enforce travel ban
U.S. deploys ‘iron soldiers’ to Europe, warns Russia
*NIGERIAN PILOT*
FG appeals to ASUP to shelve strike
I didn’t misappropriate N15m, says suspended Ondo Speaker
Okah: Court adjourns no case submission hearing till March 15
ISIS claims responsibility for killing Egyptian troops in Sinai
Big Brother Naija : 3 Housemates up for eviction
Rivers State Police Commissioner is dead
Admission: FG bans students without farming interests in agric varsity
National Trail Publisher Still In Detention Despite Court Order
A’Ibom ex-Speaker kidnapped, rescued
$40m contract scam: Absence of witnesses stalls trial of Jonathan’s cousin
El-Zakzaky, wife serve disobedience of court order notice on AGF
Ogun pays N1.7b to another batch of pensioners
Ogun commences Buhari’s free meal programme in 1, 554 schools
Obasanjo and 2019 Igbo Presidency
US travel ban row halts Dollar recovery
*NATION*
Ex-minister’s son ‘pays N1b cash for land, four houses’
Osinbajo: homes, offices to rely on off grid power
Amaechi: China’s $1.5b loan for Lagos-Ibadan rail ready
Council poll: Ajimobi, Alaafin seek out-of-court option
Reps seek revocation of oil bloc licences
Turkish school kidnap suspects held in ikorodu
Osinbajo orders probe of contract fraud claim in water ministry
Nigeria can produce three million bpd, says Kachikwu
‘Safety culture in manufacturing poor’
Turning cassava waste to wealth
Fed Govt remits N13.2b pension contribution
Three Ps of FinTech
‘More homes to rely on off grid power’
Restarting the North again
Appointment to the office of CJN
Lending them a helping hand
Handling Biafra agitations
Peter Obi’s revelation
Our Girls; Maths; ‘Violent Death Calculator’; Love Nigeria
Commandant’s killing
I am no religious bigot, El-Rufai replies critics
Boko Haram plans to launch media war on Nigeria, says minister
Tribunal declines PDP’s, Ize-Iyamu’s bid to bring new evidence
Ex-Governor Ibori set to return
No warning strike in labour law, says Ngige
Rivers police chief Odesanya dies at 56
Vampire: Prisons Comptroller- General visits Imo
Nigeria in critical phase, says Lagos chief
Mother, uncle, policeman allegedly torture teenager to death
Council lifts 1,000 pupils with educational kits
Father of three killed in land dispute
Ezekiel Bassey joins Barca B
Ikechukwu Ibenegbu:Injury not career threatening
I’m happiest man in the world, says newly wedded Dele Ajiboye
ABS won’t get carried away, Makinwa vows
Minister of Sports late wife for burial, Feb 4
Makanjuola impressed with large turnout at Water FC open trial
Court adjourns trial of MCSN, officers
Akinyemi: I want to provide new direction for Ekiti
How BBNaija contestants voted themselves for eviction
‘Unlocking our N15 trillion creative economy’
Why we need musicians union in Nigeria, by Eno Louis
FG partners Lagos State on National Theatre
‘R2 Stations is about youth and entertainment’
‘Safety culture in manufacturing poor’
Turning cassava waste to wealth
Fed Govt remits N13.2b pension contribution
Three Ps of FinTech
*COMPLETE SPORTS*
Watford Boss Mazzarri Wishes Ighalo Goodluck In China
Echiejile Joins Sporting Gijon On Loan From Monaco
Moses Starts, Costa Misses Penalty As Liverpool Hold Chelsea
Iwobi Scores As Watford Shock Arsenal; Ndidi, Musa Fall With Leicester
Arsenal Celebrate ‘Big 17’ Iwobi’s 50th Appearance
Watford Confirm Ighalo’s £20m Move To China’s Changchun
Arokoyo Ruled Out Of MLS Season, Set For Surgery
Rizespor Confirm Igiebor Signing From Maccabi Tel Aviv
Ezekiel Bassey Joins Barcelona B From Enyimba
Mourinho: Man United Must Not Drop Points Vs Hull
Ex-Flying Eagle Akabueze Joins Turkish Club Boluspor
Adebayor Joins Turkish Title Challengers Istanbul Basaksehir
Esin: I Pick Ghana Over Cameroon For AFCON Final
Clement Rues Rangers’ Slow Start, Still Eyes NPFL Title
Akpom Joins Brighton On Loan
FA Cup: Ikeme To Face Moses As Man United Draw Blackburn
Chukwu Appointed Rangers General Manager
West Brom Offer Loan Deal As Ighalo Nears £22m China Move
Aigbogun Rejects Hearts Of Oak Coaching Offer
Klopp Tips Chelsea To Win EPL Title, Won’t Rule Out Mane
Taye Taiwo Joins Swiss Club FC Lausanne
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