National News Headlines-15/12/2015

GUARDIAN

*Stiffer penalties await rapists, says SENATE President Bukola Saraki says convicted rapists would be made to face stiffer sanctions in the new laws to be enacted by the Eighth Assembly.

*Presidency eyes Ethiopia's model for agric business

*Rome to host Ryder Golf Cup median edition in 2022

*Serena hosts Charity fund Ultimate Run

*Barca draw Arsenal in Champions League last 16

*U.S. equities drop to two-month lows

*Dogara decries non-execution of NAssembly resolutions

*Minister laments poor use of hydropower 

to boost electricity

Lagos community laments poor roads, seeks governments intervention

*Visa agent docked over alleged N502,000 fraud

*Ajimobi challenges influential indigenes on rural development

*Edo budgets N111.5b for 2016

*Suspected Fulani attackers kill 14 in Plateau community

*4000 benefit from free HIV/AIDS medical treatment in Benue community

*EFCC arraigns Dasuki, Baba Kusa NNPC ex-director, Shuaibu

*Cancerous growth on wrist threatens 24-year-olds life

*Law officers begin indefinite strike over eight months salary arrears

*Harder economic times coming, says govt

*Espanyol part ways with Coach Sergio Gonzalez

*Governors Cup Lagos Tennis: Nigerian players sent packing as final leg begins

*Our chance to progress against Juventus is 50-50, Guardiola claims

*Median African Basketball league set for launch in Lagos

*Siasia: We didnt deserve to win U-23 trophy

*FC Taraba players protest unpaid salaries, relocate to Govt House

*Roma has what it takes to cause Madrid upset, Butragueno warns

*Oil prices fall below govts 2016 budget benchmark

*SAfrican firm sells Nigerian business to Dangote for N10b

*Chinas steel output drops with more cuts on the way

*Empowerment of private sector key to economic development in Nigeria

*No military panel can remove me, says Fayose

DAILY TIMES

*Dasuki, four others docked

*Why we arrested Shiite leader El-Zakzaky ' Army

*When students go berserk

*CACOL ' stages protest against infrastructural deficiency, corruption

*173 ex-corp member rececived employment letters from FG

*Dasuki, three others, arraigned in Court

*FG to create ICT hubs across Nigeria

*Abuja: Increasing challenge of insecurity

*Dasuki should be innocent until proven guilty

NATIONAL MIRROR

*Nigeria's abysmal doctor'population ratio

*Nigeria's future depends on agriculture 'Nkem-Abonta

*Lagos reviews pension payment to deceased employees' families

*Airports' infrastructure projects to gulp $30bn 'Stakeholders

*Stakeholders chart roadmap to aviation sector's sustainable growth

*Glo-CAF Awards: Amuneke guns for Coach of the Year

NIGERIAN PILOT

*FG to implement technology transfer initiative in 2016 ' Minister

*Sanction: Court dismisses Stanbic IBTC, suit against FRCN

*2016: FG reduces personnel cost from N1.8trn to N100bn

*Nigeria's infrastructure finance gap

*ITU awards would strengthen empowerment of women, girls

*NIStuctE/BCPG call on professionals to tackle building collapse

*Return of toll gates: Time for business unusual

*Insecurity: Senate urges FG to revive CCTV in public places

*Biafra: Igbo urged to embrace dialogue

*Senate will not censor media, says Saraki

*Executive, legislature poised to improve Nigerians' living standard