National News Headlines - 19/10/2015

THIS DAY

*Ex-Education Minister, Oni, Dies at 74

*Delta Apologises to NYSC Members Over Unpaid Stipends

*NMA Gives 7-day Ultimatum to Osun to Pay All Salaries Arrears

*SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA'S GROWING POVERTY

*Boko Haram: First Phase of Reconstruction Works Advance in Borno

Ministerial Slot: Politician Lauds Buhari over Ali's Nomination

*Nema Presents Materials For Rehabilitation, Resettlement of IDPs in Borno

*Ekweremadu Vows to Initiate Bill to Address Nation's Collapsed Road Infrastructure

*Ethnic Crisis Brewing Between Yoruba, Igbos in Akure

*Rectify Disparities Caused by Arbitrary State Creation, Oluwajana Tells Buhari

*Regular Sex, Exercise Minimise Prostrate Cancer

*Akpabio's Arrest Politically Motivated, Says PDP

*Fayose: Why I Didn't Abandon Jonathan after 2015 Elections

*Okowa: Zero Hunger in Delta is Achievable

*FG Considers National School Feeding as Safety Net

*NDIC Identifies Poor Funding as Major Impediment to Growth of MSMEs

*Ministerial Nomination: APC Senate Caucus Meets, Unites to Save Amaechi

*Suicide Bombers Kill 12 in Adamawa

*Refineries Operated at 10% Capacity in August, Recorded N31.7bn Loss

*World Bank Seeks Time to Provide Response on Abacha Loot

*Election Monitoring: Tanzanians Laud Jonathan's Exemplary Record

VANGUARD

*Akpabio: President Buhari is a dictator says PDP

Tanker driver dies, 6 injured in Ogun auto crash

*Detectives foil bank robbery in Ondo

*Gridlock persists on Apapa-Oshodi expressway ' LASG

*Ripples over political appointments in Ondo

*Economic slowdown: Insurers worry as income from premiums nosedives

*Yields from Treasury bills down 42% in 9 months

*Investors' wealth down N136bn,

*Transcorp Hotel, Access Bank lead losers

*CHAN Eagles off to Burkina Faso Thursday

*Oliseh's axe dangles on Emenike

*CHAN: Home-based Eagles can make Nigeria proud ' Maigari

*Death at LUTH: Lagos demands release of autopsy result

DAILY TIMES

*Ekiti APC accuses Fayose of favouritism

*Yoruba youths' group passes vote of confidence on NIIA head

*Base your campaigns on issues, not lies, Sylva tells Dickson

*Lawmaker berates FG over lack of solution to Plateau killings

*N1.7b: Ex-LAUTECH CMD denies fraud allegation

*Troops arrest Boko Haram terrorists in Plateau

*NUC unbans UNIABUJA distance learning programmes

*Police arrest fraudster who hacks Ondo Dep Gov's Account

*Kuka, Jega, Alaafin, others to bag ABUAD degrees

PM NEWS

*Afe Babalola University produces 65 First Class graduates

*Boko Haram kills 12 in Adamawa, seizes military food supply

*Odia Ofeimun: I will be the Governor of Edo State

*Dickson wants Bayelsa APC ministerial nominees cleared

*French envoy seeks FG's support for Lagos Govt.

*Osun, France sign N8bn solar plant agreement

*Maiduguri hospital records 43,000 cases of mental disorder

*Suicide bomber targeting Nigerian army barracks killed

*Ex-Edo NMA Chair, 2 other doctors kidnapped

*INEC is not competent to operate with two national commissioners ' Falana

*World Cup: USA coach bemoans loss to Nigeria

*Nigerian nabbed in Australia with $10m hard drug

*Inadequate budgeting stalls recruitment of 10,000 policemen ' Okiro

*Biafra writes world leaders over Kanu's arrest

*We will explain how Abacha's loot was disbursed ' World Bank

*Lagos consumes N1billion worth of rice daily, says Ambode

*Police arrest 72, recover 818 cattle in Kano

*Fashola dismisses fake Twitter account

*Pension thieves must return stolen funds, El-Rufai vows

*Ambode lures Brazilian investors to Lagos

UK MIRROR

*On-duty fireman found hanged at station  where he worked by night shift colleagues

*White Widow Samantha Lewthwaite 'was with Brit jihadist when he  beheaded 50 villagers'

*CHILDREN among hundreds of  people told they risk being murdered in escalating Salford gang feud

*Angry mob surround and  grab young women 'because they  were scandalously dressed'

*Punter who won £116,000 on an  accumulator bought new car  BEFORE the bet came in

*Tragic boy, 4, loses brave battle  with aggressive form of cancer after 'winning hearts of thousands'

*Toddler left fighting for his life after lump size of GRAPEFRUIT is discovered in his  stomach

*Adele is back! Star unveils new music during  The X Factor

*Armed gang 'rape woman in front of boyfriend then force her to watch  them drown him in lake'

*Husband found guilty of wife's  murder kills himself in courtroom as judge passes sentence

*Boy, 6, shoots dead his little  brother playing cops and robbers  with his dad's gun

*Shocking CCTV footage shows  bystanders flee as Palestinian  gunman opens fire at Israeli bus  station

*Fears for heavily-pregnant missing  woman who mysteriously vanished  days before she's due to give birth

*Delhi child rape: Two teenage boys  arrested following sex attack on  two-year-old girl

*Calum Best 'arrested over hotel sex assault'

*Dad brutally beaten while trying to  defend his 'vulnerable son' from  two thugs

*British teens will have passports  seized if parents fear they plan to  join ISIS in Syria

*SAS ordered to bring back Jihadi  John ALIVE to face justice in  England

*'Bubbly' mum battling MS  takes own life at assisted suicide  clinic in Switzerland

*Meet the woman born without a  WOMB who is now hoping to have a  child after pioneering transplant

*Gerard Houllier threatens to sue  Nicolas Anelka after striker accuses  him of racism