National News Headlines - 18/9/2015

THE NATION

*Saraki fails to stop trial

*Senate President not likely in court for arraignment

*Six held for alleged bid to swallow $156,000 cash

*States to share N535.5b

*Woman arrested for 'kidnapping' three kids

*Saraki: CCB chairman under pressure

*Four killed in Port Harcourt gas explosion

*WAEC adjusts exam timetable for Sallah

*Rising diabetes cases worry endocrinologists

*Economic downturn: 60,000 construction workers sacked

*PDP had most ad billboards in 2014, says TMKG

*Sanusi urges Fed Govt on infrastructure growth

*Sallah: Ram sellers decry low sale

*Inconsistent policy threatens 11m non-oil sector jobs

PUNCH

*NEITI wants increased penalties for errant oil firms

*FG to focus on agribusiness

*Nigeria falls below Afghanistan in exports ranking

*Ondo distributes N20m soft loans to traders

*Dangote plans investment in A'Ibom

*EFCC declares Saraki's firm MD, Izuagbe, wanted

*PDP did nothing good in 16 years APC

*Rivers APC deputy chair alleges threat to life

*N78m too little for Fashola to steal Akabueze

*Golden age of celebrity worship..

*Students appeal judgment banning hijab in Lagos schools

*Govt House invasion: PDP chasing shadows, says APC

*Gas explosion kills four in Rivers

DAILY POST

*National Youth Council of Nigeria unites against corruption

*Saraki urges Ilorin people to pray for national progress

*Five feared killed as explosion rocks Port Harcourt

*EFCC declares Izuagbe, Ex- Societe Generale Bank Director wanted for N3.6bn fraud

*Odinkalu tasks Buhari to reveal his administration’s plans to Nigerians not foreigners

*Former Minister, Nebo backs Buhari’s anti-corruption crusade

*We won’t be distracted by Code of Conduct charges against Saraki – Senators

*Bayelsa Guber: I will win PDP ticket – Sylva boasts

*National conference will reposition us – PDP

*Come clean on corruption allegations – TMG tells Saraki

*PDP planning to kill me – Rivers APC Deputy Chairman

*Senator Shehu Sani backs FG to negotiate with Boko Haram

*Police corporal arraigned for shooting woman dead in Lagos

*Men should marry more than one wife to end prostitution – Kenyan politician

*Married woman caught having sex with lecturer in Delta hotel

*Woman in court for assaulting man with soldiers in Benin

*There is ‘friction’ between Mourinho and Terry – Gerrard

*I am not in heaven because we beat Maccabi Tel Aviv – Mourinho

*I don’t have any problem with my husband – Ibinabo Fiberisima

*I am Nigeria’s Caityln Jenner – Denrele

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*Kwankwaso slams N10 bn suit against Kano pensioners

*All Africa Games: Nigeria's Dream Team beat Congo to win bronze

*ICPC arraigns 5 directors in Niger Delta Ministry over N655million theft

*Drama as INEC concludes defence in Akwa Ibom governorship election suit

*Gov. Bagudu orders arrest of 4 Kebbi Hajj officials

*Man jailed for stealing bolt and nuts

*Police arrest Indian man in Lagos over visa scam

*Kidnapped Nigerian Muslim leader regains freedom

*Military confirms Burkina Faso coup, dissolves government

*Bayelsa gubernatorial race: Election committee raises security concerns

*APC reschedules Bayelsa gubernatorial primary

*10 suspected Boko Haram insurgents arrested in Adamawa

*INEC official claims card reader directive was not received in Akwa Ibom

*18 people killed in Jos village ' Official

*Over 10.5 million Nigerian children out of school ' Actionaid