Today's News Dailies Tue, 24 Oct 2017

Today's News Dailies
Tue, 24 Oct 2017


**NIGERIA

*Dambazau lied, I played no role in Maina’s return — Head of Service

*Revealed: AGF Malami ordered Maina’s recall

*Abia judicial service commission break into two factions

*All eyes on NJC’s corruption cases monitoring group

*Army destroys militant camps, illegal refineries in Niger Delta

*National Assembly summons minister, unions over airports’ concessioning

*Court adjourns $407m suit against Shell, Agip to November 15

*Government mulls new petrol pricing model

*FG, Delta government disagree over N19 trillion external debt

*Real estate stakeholders seek government, private sector partnership

*Buhari sacks Maina, orders probe of recall, posting

*NAFDAC’s spokesman decries non-payment of media workers

*Experts opt for local currency deals in infrastructure financing

*Kogi director suffered partial stroke before committing suicide, police say

*Shehu Sani cautions on Kaduna’s $350m World Bank loan

*Deadline for implementation of anti-open grazing law sacrosanct, says Ortom

*Metuh may ask court to summon Jonathan as witness in alleged N400 billion fraud trial

*Police arrest four Air Force men for allegedly vandalising water pipes

*Archbishop celebrates birthday in prison

*#FraudAlert: How I Virtually Lost My Business To Diamond Online Banking

*Aberdeen oil firm to ramp up production in Nigeria

*President Buhari attends ECOWAS meeting in Niamey

*Corporate secrecy in governance is affecting economy, says Osinbajo

*Cross River, Akwa Ibom, Niger join FG’s school feeding programme

*FG trying in vain to pin Kanu’s absence on Abaribe – IPOB

*Our achievements are real, not propaganda, lies — Buhari

*Why Court ordered Police to pay Evans’ brother-in-law N2million

*Youth empowerment: Minister solicits support for AASDU technical skills centre

*2015 poll violence: Bayelsa community lauds Dickson, police for resettlement

*One dead in fresh Ogun customs, smugglers clash

*National transport commission bill to lay foundation for smart mobility, says Ashafa

*Tragedy averted as multiple car crash injures four on Third Mainland Bridge

*Lafarge to list N25b commercial paper, floats N131.6b rights issue

*Niger Delta ministry mulls job creation initiative in region

*Lagos, firm sign deal to deliver 20,000 homes by 2018

*Onnoghen, Gusau warn of inevitable disputes in oil, gas sector

*NMA threatens to leave public hospitals for paramedics

*Kebbi NYSC medical personnel take free services to rural areas

*Report exposes how tobacco companies lure school children

*UNIDO trains entrepreneurs on improved financial literacy

*Empire returns with season four on StarTimes

*Osun names Oyebade new Head of Service

*PDP asks Buhari to sack Malami, Danbazzau, wants Maina arrested

*Appeal court hears application to stay proceedings in sale of Daily Times assets to Mikano…

*Nigerian wins World Bank’s youth entrepreneurship scheme

*World Bank, PharmAccess support Kwara State Health Insurance Scheme

*FG, Novo Nordisk team up against diabetes

*FG raises N6.69bn with Savings Bond

*African Church priest: I crawled in bush for hours to escape, says bishop

*I don’t know where Kanu is, Abaribe replies FG

*Adams, good choice for Aare Ona Kakanfo title – Ooni

*Customs kill father of two during clash with smugglers

*Southern govs call for true federalism, power devolution

*Banks send messages to customers without BVN

*Senate indicts Okonjo-Iweala, says her memo caused N1.7tn revenue loss

*Metuh’s trial: Court orders Jonathan to appear on Wednesday

*Southern governors vote for devolution of power

*‘Federal agencies fail to remit N1.695tr’

*BVN: More time sought for rural dwellers

*Evans’ arraignment for attempted murder stalled

*We’ve provided fuel without paying N1.3tr subsidy, says Fed Govt

**AFRICA

*U.S. law firm files class suit against Rio Tinto over Mozambique coal

*Top U.S. general lays out timeline of deadly Niger attack

*U.N. condemns arrests of Congo opposition members

*Gambian ministry says up to Togo to resolve crisis

*Rwandan leader's would-be rival Rwigara and her mother denied bail

*Half of central Congo's 1.5 million displaced people have returned

*Kenya to charge opposition leader's sister with incitement to violence

**WORLD

*Indonesian general’s rejection from United States sparks diplomatic row

*Joshua Wong and Nathan Law, Hong Kong Protest Leaders, Freed on Bail

*China’s Communist Party inserts Xi into party constitution

*Suspect in Kim murder emotional on airport visit

*Myanmar: US withdraws assistance from Myanmar military amid Rohingya crisis

*Three-quarters of Australians vote in same-sex marriage poll so far

*Najib will aim to win over voters in last budget before elections

*Cambodia: US Senator calls for release of Kem Sokha, threatens travel restrictions

*Abadi defends role of Iranian-backed paramiltaries at meeting with Tillerson

*Hong Kong protest leader Joshua Wong released on bail

*China’s Communist Party inserts President Xi Jinping’s name, ideology into party’s constitution

*Weinstein's ex assistant breaks silence

**SPORTS

*Shooting Stars FC Sacks Fatai Amoo

*Cristiano Ronaldo Top Strike in FIFA’s Best Team for 2017

*Ronaldo is FIFA Best Player

*Zidane wins 2017 Best FIFA Men’s Coach

*Arsenal Giroud wins 2017 FIFA Puskas award for goal of the year

*Odion Ighalo Good for W/Cup says Udeze

*Come and Fight for Shirt, Alloy Agu Tells Enyeama