Today's Newspaper Headlines [28 December, 2016]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Wednesday, December 28, 2016.

PUNCH

• Security agencies plotted violence during Rivers rerun –Wike
  
• We’re ready for dialogue, militants reply Buhari
  
• We’re dying of hunger, MASSOB laments
  
• Throw away idols in your palaces, Oluwo tells monarchs
  
• FG to buy N45m carpet, N63m seats for National Theatre
  
• NIM backs FG’s planned reward for whistle-blowers
  
• B’Haram’s defeat, military’s best Christmas gift –Atiku
  
• Arrested B’Haram fighter warns of attacks on FCT
  
• Okpozo dies at 84, Okowa, APC, others mourn
  
• Senate summons NEPZA
  
• Eight power firms reject 1,337MWH despite poor supply
  
• FG to buy N400m vehicles for Obasanjo, Jonathan others
  
• Women shouldn’t share inheritance equally with men – Sultan
  
• Shettima wants N500m Chibok school funds probed
  
• Kano, NLC disagree on ghost workers
  
• Delta may lose out on $250m Ibori loot
  
• Ghost workers: N143bn saved in 2016, says FG
  
• I’m back to testify against Hembe, says Jibrin
  
• Lack of funds stalls re-opening of 31 ex-govs’ cases
  
• Politicians already stockpiling arms for 2019 polls –Security chief
  
• Three FCT cops murdered, police begin manhunt for killers
  
• LASG defends distribution method for Lake Rice
  
• ‘War against B’Haram not over’
  
• Policeman kills man five days to wedding
  
• Policewoman joins kidnap gang to apprehend kingpin
  
• Drug traffickers excrete 50 wraps of cocaine
  
  
  THE NATION:

• Army arrests 40 foreigners after Sambisa Forest’s fall
  
• Obama calls Buhari as DSS arrests key terrorism suspect
  
• Govt promises good education for Chibok girls
  
• Fed Govt saves N200b from 50,000 ghost workers in 2016
  
• Govt urged to stop sponsoring hajj
  
• Anyaoku seeks scrapping of states
  
• Local Content Policy: NAICOM to sanction negligent insurers
  
• Uduaghan warns Ibori’s visitors over conduct
  
• NCAA fines Arik N6m for violating passengers’ rights
  
• Padding: Jibrin, Hembe trade words over return of senator
  
• NCAA cautions airlines over poor weather
  
• Nine workers, director sacked for alleged fraud
  
• LAKE rice still available, says govt
  
• 17,000 Kwarans to benefit from Fed Govt’s cash transfer
  
• Security nabs suspected Boko Haram member in Abuja
  
• Residents groan as ATMs go ‘cashless’ in Ibadan
  
• Shettima celebrates with freed Chibok schoolgirls

VANGUARD:

• Budget 2017: FG To Spend N432m On Cars For Ex-Presidents
  
• Clearing Of Sambisa Forest Not End Of War Against Insurgency —PDP
  
• 2016: Angola Maintains Lead Over Nigeria On Oil Output In Africa
  
• Anchor Borrowers Programme: Farmers Decry Slow Pace Of Accounts Opening Process
  
• Employers, Labour In Textile Industry Agree On N32,000 Minimum Wage
  
• NLC, pensioners battle Imo govt over 60 percent pension cut
  
• Baggage Delay: NCAA Fines Arik Air N6m
  
• Stakeholders Raise Alarm Over High Rate Of HIV In Imo
  
• Ngige Urges NSITF To Extend ECS To Private Sector
  
• High Cost Of Living: Our People Are Dying En-Masse— MASSOB
  
• Anambra to commercialise cassava production in 2017
  
• Ohanaeze Ndigbo election scheduled for January
  
• Oliseh Bags Coaching Job In Dutch League
  
• Umahi endorses House members for next election