15/03/2018
Headlines March 15 Headlines from Nigeria’s Major Newspapers
NATION
*Buhari: we will bring back Dapchi, Chibok girls safely
*Schoolgirls relive abduction ordeal
*Nigeria’s public debt hits N21.73tr, says DMO boss
*Election sequence: Court stops Senate, Reps
*Video of Evans confessing to kidnapping shown in court
*Ekiti landlords protest BEDC’s ‘crazy bills’
*‘Govt to punish negligent officials in Dapchi schoolgirls’ abduction’
*Plot to override Buhari’s veto on election sequence thickens
*Reps to resend Electoral Bill to Buhari
*Court insists on hearing Odigie-Oyegun, others in suit against APC’s tenure extension
*Plane crash: Judgment stalled in Falae family’s suit
*Three UTME candidates arrested for ‘exam malpractices’
*Lagos govt begins vaccination against measles
*Six arrested for stoning governor
*Pastor arraigned for ‘fraudulently obtaining vehicle, money from member’
*‘Varsities to prioritise entrepreneurship education’
*Teen commits su***de over low JAMB score
*Varsities’ non-teaching workers suspend strike
*FEC okays agreement on African Free Trade in Kigali
*Bi-Courtney assures Arik of hitch-free operations
*2019: Youths seek APC’s reform
*Akeredolu kick-starts repair of Araromi-Akodo-Lekki road
*Media Trust likely for stock exchange listing, says chair
*Environmentalists hail review of excise duty on to***co
*160 million Nigerians lack access to potable water, says UNICEF
*Court dismisses N272.5m fraud charge against oil marketer
*‘Undetected glaucoma rampant in Nigeria’
*NYSC blacklists Osun school for attacking corps members
*Police nab Ogun pupils’ ‘killer’
*UTME: Stakeholders laud JAMB for hitch-free exercise
*NAFDAC uncovers bakeries using banned substances
*CBN’s stress test raises hope on economy
*Ambode urges new perm secs to champion growth mindset
*Obi to pupils: education will set you free
*Court fines police N3m for violating FCT resident’s right
*‘I love wearing uniform to intimidate people’
*Ondo APC 2016 primary: ‘Ojudu’s remarks derogatory’
DAILY TRUST
*Half of world’s population not connected online - ITU boss
*Curfew in Plateau’s Bassa as 2 task force personnel killed
*ICPC docks civil servant for forging NCE certificate
*NGO advocates women’s access to empowerment funds
*Why Kaduna yet to resume feeding for primaries 4-6
*Curfew in Plateau’s Bassa as 2 task force personnel killed
*ICPC docks civil servant for forging NCE certificate
*Nigeria bids for Continental Free Trade headquarters
*No money to fix refineries – FG
*Daily Trust at 20: The journey so far, by Kabiru Yusuf
*Mambilla, Fulani community sign peace accord
*Curse on human traffickers by Oba of Benin yielding results
*NMA gives Edo 21-day ultimatum
*Katsina gets acting chief judge
*N400m: Metuh files fresh application for overseas treatment
*‘Goronyo Dam water level depletes by 90%’
*Senate summons NSA, AGF over Kogi armed militias
*Fire razes 22 shops in Kano market
*CSOs laud FG’s action on to***co tax
*Bauchi gov signs N167.8bn budget
*Daily Trust’s Vanessa Offiong wins fellowship
*ECOWAS, China sign $31.6m headquarters construction pact
*Boko Haram will pay dearly for abducting schoolgirls — Buhari
*Armsgate: Judge withdraws from EFCC case against Ashinze, others
*Police, NSCDC deploy 3,500 operatives for Buhari’s visit to Niger
*Immigration generated over N38bn in 2017
LEADERSHIP
*Groups Urge Stakeholders To Rise Against Women, Children Abuse
*AIESEC Alumni Plans 2018 Regional Congress In Lands
*Boys Brigade Laments Youth Unemployment In Nigeria
*Ladoja Cannot Intimidate Oyo PDP - Oyelese
*Pandemonium In Lagos, As Olusosun Dumpsite Fire Engulfs Vicinity
*“Missing’ UniOsun Student Resurfaces, Says I Went To Hustle
VANGUARD
*Nigeria Hosts Airport Council International Confab
*2019: Idisi Consults Ibori For Second Term Bid
*Nigerian Shippers’ Council Has Powers To Regulate Terminal Operators —Appeal Court
*Getting Business Loans From Banks Skye Bank (1)
*Senate Gives C’ttee One Week To Screen 4 MPC Members, CBN Dep Gov
*A Teflon President And His Many Alibis
*Hearing On Theologians Suit Against NUC For May 2
*Herdsmen, Youths Clash In Plateau: 2 Operation Safe Haven Personnel Killed, 2 Others Injured
*Buhari, Jonathan At ‘war’ Over Dapchi Schoolgirls
*Election Sequence: Reps Move To Re-gazette Electoral Act
*Reps Probe S*x Abuse, Teenage Pregnancy In IDPS
*Reps C’ttee May Issue Warrant Of Arrest Against Maina, Others
*How 304 Firms Invested $200m In Ogun — AMOSUN
*Meet Our Demands Or We Ground Edo In 21 Days, NMA Tells Obaseki
*FG Agencies To Partner INEC On Bayelsa Polls
*Anti-Graft War: Need For Full Disclosure
*We Have Lost Our Country
THE SUN
*Communal clash: 30 years after, Ebonyi govt takes over disputed land
*Demystifying the Lagos Land Use Charge
*Insecurity: Senate summons NSA, AGF
*Ozubulu killings: Women protest, demand witnesses’ protection
*2019 and PDP’s chances in South East
*I’ll chase Fayose away as I did in 2006 – Senator Ojudu
*Magna-Carta option’ll save Nigeria – Akwara-Dundas
*Nigeria’s public debt hits N21.725tr – DMO
**Wema Bank launches Aba branch
*We’ll prosecute tax defaulters post VAIDS
*Inflation drops to 14.3% –NBS
*To***co, alcohol tariff raise threatens over 20,000 jobs
*Customs harmonises database for vehicle import
*Modular refineries won’t solve petrol supply deficit – Kachikwu
*FEC approves Nigeria’s signing of ACFTA in Rwanda
*CPC hails duty increase on to***co, alcohol
*GT Bank records N200.24bn PBT in 2017
*NIMASA, lawmakers in open confrontation over poor budget performance
*Olam Nigeria invests $1bn in agric sector
*OPS rejects increase in Land Use Charge
*Dasukigate: Judge withdraws from suit
*Herdsmen kill 2 soldiers in Plateau, 2 brothers in Benue
*Governors lobby NASS to override Buhari’s veto
GUARDIAN
*Messi hits 100th Champions League goal as Barca make last eight
*Roberto Carlos to visit Nigeria for Real Madrid Foundation inauguration
*Buhari promises return of kidnapped schoolgirls
*Six inmates killed in Bolivia as police storm prison
*Britain expels Russian diplomats over spy poisoning
*Zamfara to restore corps members allowance
*U.S. regulators charge Theranos CEO with fraud
*South Africa's new president vows faster land redistribution
*36% of Nigerian teenagers are mothers
*Neymar takes kicking for bad- taste homage to Hawking
*Mbappe double keeps PSG perfect at home
*Bayern reach Champions League quarter-finals for seventh year in row
*Lafia Stadium wears new look as Amazons host Nigeria Women Professional League season opener
*No special plan to stop Messi, says Rohr
*Violence-ridden Greek football in danger of 'Grexit': FIFA
*Tokyo stocks snap four-day winning streak
*Minister seeks more technical, institutional support for Nigeria, others
*Fund acquires farm in Nasarawa
*Nigeria targets improved growth, ranking by 2020 with focus labs
THISDAY
*Measles: Lagos Takes Step Towards Elimination
*NCDC, WAHO Target 25m Nigerians for Yellow Fever Vaccination
"Endometriosis: Nordica Walks to Raise Awareness
*Chelsea Knocked out as Messi’s Brace Inspires Barca to Last Eight
*Al Ittihad to Storm Uyo Today by Chartered Flight
*Nigeria vs Argentina Group D Match Tickets Sold out
*UK Ministers, Royal Family Will Not Go to World Cup in...
*Bayern Thumps Besiktas to Reach Champions League Quarter final
*NPFL: Okon Otop Desires More for Self and Go Round FC
*Reverse Kwara Utd FC Slide, Gov Ahmed Charges New Coach
*NASCO Group Partners PACA to Host Cycling Awareness in Jos
*Kane out until April with Ligament Damage
*CBN Unveils Revised Regulation for Direct Debit Scheme
*Fowler: FIRS Has Resources to Prosecute Tax Debtors after VAIDS
*Access Bank Launches Credit Card for Students
*GTBank Posts N170bn Profit After Tax, to Pay N2.40 Final Dividend
*Police to Reposition Savings Culture of Personnel through Cooperatives
*Stanbic IBTC Records 70% Profit Growth, Proposes 50 kobo Dividend
*FG Urged to Provide Core IT Infrastructure for Business Growth
*Report: Company Culture Key to Addressing Gender Inequality
*Google Pulled Down 3.2bn Ads in 2017 for Policy Violations
*CCM Boss Alerts of Moves to Stall Calabar Port Dredging
*Nigeria Contributes 10% to Thailand’s $12bn Gemstone Market
*Abuja-Kaduna Rail Line: NRC Assures Passengers of Safety
*Minister Inaugurates SON Governing Council
*Diamond Bank Launches Artificial Intelligence-powered Chatbot
*Ericsson Sets Roadmap to Unlock 5G’s Revenue Potential
*Cars45, Kia Motors Extend Business Partnership to Abuja
*InfraCos and Waning Subscriber Confidence
*Ozakpo: BillsnPay Tech Solution Will Enhance Business Growth
*Collegiate Sporting Platform to the Rescue
*Small Scale Farmers’ Challenges, Priorities
*Should Local Govts be Granted Autonomy?
*Nnamani Eyes ATCON 1st VP Post
*What to Do When You Don’t Have Enough Money
*Ojudu: How I Will Defeat Fayose’s PDP in Ekiti
*WaterAid Seeks Improved Access to Water, Sanitation in Healthcare Facilities
*Bill Seeking 35% Affirmative Action to be Re-introduced to Senate
*Wednesday 14th March 2018
*Unilever Advocates Gender Inclusion for Sustainable Working Environment
*The Proxy War between Kwankwaso and Ganduje
*Ending Female Ge***al Mutilation
*World NGO Day: Obaseki Salutes Sacrifices of Civil Society Organisations
*The Amber Light is On…1
*DATA AND THE OIL INDUSTRY
*Multiple District 404 Celebrates 40th Lions Day with UN
PUNCH
*Court hears Cross Country, AG Moeller’s case March 27
*Commissioner, sacked Sunshine coach trade allegations
*Rohr backs Akpeyi for Russia 2018
*Dubois will be bigger than Joshua – Bruno
*Premature ovarian failure
*ACPN urge FG to close down open drug markets
*Residents panic as hoodlums kill UNILAG worker, undergraduate
*Police ask artisan tortured by Rivers SARS to lodge complaint
*Missing UNIOSUN student reappears, says MMM loss made him hide
*Falana, Keyamo seek probe of pupil killed by policemen
*I will take any risk to leave Nigeria – Stowaway
*Police arrest madman who killed two pupils
*Court fixes March 27 for suit challenging Oyegun tenure elongation
*LASACO, Japaul, Diamond Bank top losers, equities shed N83bn
*GTBank records N200bn profit before tax for 2017
*Fire guts Olusosun dump, burns Lagos buses
*Schoolgirls’ abduction: My response better than Jonathan’s, says Buhari
*Lalong declares curfew as herdsmen kill two soldiers, two cops
TELEGRAPH
*Reinforcing ERGP with Malaysian economic model
*Dapchi Girls: I responded better than Jonathan- Buhari
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*BREAKING: Fulani herdsmen ambush, kill Catholic Catechist, two brothers in Benue after Buhari’s visit
*Triumph of Oyegun as APC chair
*Kwankwaso and the theory of non- virtuous couple
*Sack of Tillerson won’t affect Nigeria- US bilateral ties – FG
*Ekiti election: Oni urges tolerance among APC members
*S’West PDP: Appeal Court didn’t pronounce Olafeso as chair, says Ogundipe exco
*N3.1bn fraud: Judge withdraws from suit over EFCC’s misconduct
*Obi gives Ogun schools N2m, urges prayer for Dapchi schoolgirls’ return
*Kidnapping, robbery: Evans’ confession video played in court
*Journalists, others injured in Obaseki’s convoy crash
*Missing final student found in lover’s embrace –Police
GOD BLESS NIGERIA