National News Headlines-17/11/2015

DAILY SUN

*No reprieve for MTN as $5.2bn fine stays 'NCC

*Nigerians urged to go back to reading

*Elections: Presidency dismisses PDP's insinuation over meeting with INEC, police

*Kogi guber: INEC relocates to Lokoja

*Shekarau joins Dickson's campaign, predicts victory

*Crisis rocks APGA ahead of poll

Kogi & Bayelsa decide: Elders warn against deployment of soldiers to rig elections

*I never apologised for PDP's misrule 'Dokpesi

*FG to rid seaports of substandard trucks

*Lagos warns residents against fuel storage in homes

*Islamic State funding comes from 40 countries, including G20 ' Putin

*Troops arrest Boko Haram kingpin, recover various weapons

*France is at war': Hollande to intensify military operation in Syria

*Boko Haram scare: Lagos schools cancel morning assemblies, gates shut

*Lagos accounts for 65 percent non-oil GDP, says Ambode

*Biafra: Army warns against act of felony

*Fuel scarcity bites harder

*Bad company made me a robber -Suspect

*I'll actualise Biafra 'Uwazuruike

*Fuel scarcity: Food, transport fares skyrocket in Imo

*Anambra: Obiano calls for state of emergency on gully erosion

*N10m property razed by fire in Warri

*China plans multi-billion dollar investments in Cross River

*Bishop to S'West govs: You've failed Awolowo

*Army set to clamp down on Biafra agitators

*Biafra: Kanu's mum, sister lead protest

THE NATION

*Buhari seeks approval to pay N413b subsidy claims

*MTN gets Friday deadline to pay $5.2b fine

*National Assembly urges Buhari to send new PIB

*Agency confirms 274 Nigerians died in Saudi stampede

*PDP chieftains, Dickson's aides defect to APC

*Fuel scarcity spreads in Ibadan

Why Biafra agitators must be stopped, by lawyers

*70 per cent of inmates awaiting trial

*NBA, CAC partner on reform of archaic laws

*Senior staff use juniors to perpetrate fraud, says Lagos CJ

*Fed Govt to explore mixed energy sources for power

*Finance Minister meets directors to strategise

*Row over $120m scanners at ports as service providers scheme to return

Strengthening EFCC

*Okupe is back ' with a whinge

*Buhari has fulfilled his campaign promises

NATIONAL MIRROR

*Black out imminent as vandals attack 330kv tower

*NSE pledges to work with Fashola, Amaechi

*UNTH doctors call off strike

*Dogara backs call for state police

*Yoruba want conflicts with cattle rearers resolved

*Kogi: INEC, Police pledge to maintain the sanctity of ballot box

*Vodacom Nigeria launches vehicle recovery solution

*FG backs Nasarawa govt on new airport project

THE CABLE

*Buhari: This is not military rule' allegedly corrupt officials are innocent until proven guilty

*We fined all mobile networks, says NCC

*Nigerians determined to remain one, says Buhari

*Buhari has neglected us, Chibok parents lament

*amnesty adviser, Kuku, yet to honour EFCC's invitation

*Buhari to PDP: I met INEC for only 5 minutes

*Sanusi is new chancellor of UNIBEN

*Robbers now hide guns in bread

*Inflation drops for the first time in 11 months

*Nigeria's richest man resigns from Dangote flour

*Bayelsa elders vow to resist rigging

*Newly-registered voters get PVCs in Kogi

*Saraki promises to reveal details of 2016 budget