Wednesday 26 August 2015

National News Headlines - 26/8/2015


THE SUN

*Red alert: Nigeria has 10% of world's malnourished kids

*Humanitarian week: NGOs cater for 92,000 IDPs, wants more assistance

*Gully erosion cuts off Nekede community from Owerri

*Rotary Club tackles maternal, infant mortality in Enugu

*Lawmaker gives succour to boy with crushed legs, visits victims of NDLEA shooting in Aba

*Anambra traders bury 160 colleagues 13 years after

*Why we're backing Buhari to recover loots -Oye, APGA Chairman

*Bayelsa PDP: Paulker worried over mass defection

*Buhari registers for national ID

*Oshiomhole betrayed Jonathan -Orubebe

*Bolt, Gatlin go to war again

*Buhari angry over subsidy

*Pomp as Igbo community in Bangkok installs Ezeneche Eze ndi Igbo in Mekong, Thailand

*Kano Central Senatorial Poll: Tribunal upholds Kwankwaso's election

*Customs agents seize $40K from Nigerian traveler at American airport

*NDLEA declares Anambra's drug baron wanted

*Floods: FG dispatches materials to Buhari's kinsmen.

*Unpaid salaries: Labour shuts down Imo

*WAEC fees: Oyo residents fight Ajimobi over re-introduction of levy

*Sokoto Assembly begins probe of state's finances

*We're targeting 5,000mw electricity daily ' Buhari

*Female bomber kills 6, injures 26 in Yobe

*Arik Air cabin crew arrested in London for drug trafficking

*NLC to hold mass rally against corruption September 10



DAILY POST


*Group lambasts CJN, NJC, Falana for backing Aregbesola against Osun judge

*Boko Haram: Governor Gaidam heartbroken as six killed, 26 injured in Damaturu blast

*Ondo Police in search of missing four-year-old boy

*Don’t spare corrupt public officials – CAN urges El-Rufai

*Those opposed to Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade are Nigeria’s enemies – Activist

*Hajj: Board bars five pregnant women in Gombe

*APGA increases price of governorship form to N6m in Kogi, Bayelsa

*We are united, Saraki knows nothing about petition against Lamorde – Senate

*I didn’t hire anyone to attack EFCC – Saraki

*Sokoto State Assembly begins probe of Tambuwal, Wamakko

*Teenager kills three-year-old brother with father’s gun in Enugu

*Indonesia Muslim Scholars warn man called ‘God’ to change his name

*Court dissolves 34-year marriage over controversial children, promiscuity

*Popular publisher, Seun Oloketuyi remanded in prison for alleged defamatory publication against bank MD

*Arik Air flight attendant nabbed for possession of cocaine

*Family cries out over father’s imprisonment for crime he didn’t commit
*Chelsea target John Stones hands in transfer request

*NFF buys Oliseh new N6.5m Nissan Altima

*Wenger gives up on Benzema transfer

*Manchester United reportedly bid £140m for Neymar




PUNCH


*Retired police officers protest inadequate pensions

*NSE honours Jega

*Committees' absence stalls execution of 33 Reps resolutions

*Ogun Baptists urge Amosun to forgive sacked workers

*Hajj: Bauchi saves N800m, bars 13 pregnant women

*N4bn loan: Rivers panel summons ex-chairmen

*Bayelsa may probe former commissioner ' Deputy gov

*A'Ibom owes banks N64.5bn ' Commissioner

*Osun judge: APC, PDP disagree over husband-snatching saga

*Nigerians now fare better under Buhari, says Oshiomhole

*Nigeria, Pakistan compete in population growth

*Power generation hits 4,748MW

*Economic growth falls to 2.35%

*New FIRS boss vows to raise tax revenue

*FG agencies inflated contracts by N659bn ' BPP

*EU, UK, others invest N900bn in Nigeria's agriculture

*BHaram: Military to deploy 8,700 soldiers

*Rivers tribunal: 16 senators, Reps petition Buhari

*Biafra matter settled in 1970, ACF tells Igbo

*Yobe teenage bomber kills pregnant woman, five others

*National ID will complement voter card, says Buhari



THE NATION


*19 Defence, Service chiefs to face arms deals panel

*No federal lawmaker should earn more than N1m, says RMAFC

*Nigerians abroad remitted $20b in 2014, says Osinbajo

*Police deploy team to enforce withdrawal of security from VIPs

*Two injured, three buses burnt in tanker fire

*APC to Fayose: compensate traders before market rebuilding

*Fed Govt owes PFAs N35b pension contribution, says NLC

*Ecobank ordered to pay Skye Bank N629m APG

*Nigeria spends N16b yearly importing tomatoes

*Falling oil price 'll worsen Nigeria's economic woes

*NNPC seeks one more year for PIB's review

*For Jonathan, charity doesn't begin at home

*Oyatomi: Osun's financial crisis not because of Aregbesola's recklessness

*PDP has no respect for my generation ' Siasia




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