TODAY's NEWSPAPER HEADLINES MONDAY 22 JANUARY, 2018

TODAY's NEWSPAPER HEADLINES
MONDAY 22 JANUARY, 2018


**NIGERIA

*Delta Govt to Parley Militia, N’Delta Avengers over Fresh Threat

*Fuel Queues Return to Lagos, NNPC Announces Release of 250 Petrol Trucks

*Senate to Hold Public Hearing on Bill Establishing NCDC Today

*Falana Warns FG against Cattle Colonies

*Court Affirms SERAP’s Right to Stop Double Pay, Pensions for Politicians

*Buhari’s government has dragged Nigeria backward, says Junaid Mohammed

*Activist challenges Kogi Assembly on variation in 2017 budget

*Minister promises NIPRD N100m for herbal drugs research

*FRC to unveil draft national governance code in March

*Stock market indices defy profit taking, up by 5.1%

*Bharti Airtel Africa’s revenue rises by 5.3%

*‘Buhari’s anti-corruption war is good, but I see contradictions’

*UN: Over 10, 000 Cameroonian Refugees Registered in C’River

*Herdsmen Killing: Fayose to Hold Fulani’s Leaders Responsible for Reprisal Attack

*Media Firm Slams N200m Suit Against Access Bank over Unlawful Account Freeze

*Daura Youths to Buy Nomination Forms for Buhari, Masari

*Media Seal appoints Adeniba GM

*Kogi State government moves to curtail Lassa fever spread

*Group backs Isiaka for Ogun guber race

*Court orders firm to pay Edo families N100m for land grabbing

*NGO donates school building, empowers 3,000 in Ebonyi community

*Dangote’s Multi-million Naira UI Business School Ready Soon

*Herdsmen Killings May Cost Buhari Second Term, Say PFN, CRM

*NBA Visits Victims of New Year Day Attack in Benue

*Appeal Court Judge States Why ACJA May Fail

*Digital switchover: FG May revoke STB contracts

*Bayelsa to Shut down over 250 Sub-standard Private Schools

*Turkish Nizamiye Hospital Celebrates 18 Successful Open Heart Surgeries

*Phone thieves set 12-year-old ablaze

*Safety: NLPGA to deepen training across LPG value chain

*Implement N550bn ESF to boost export, CBN urged

*OPS decries high cost, scarcity of raw materials

*FG to train 3m women, youths in agribusiness

*Economy remains strong, says Emefiele

*Diezani in trouble again over withdrawal of $1.3b from NNPC accounts

*Olubadan: we’re not celebrating High Court verdict

*Confusion as ‘Fresh PDP’ faction rejects truce with Secondus

*Breach of contract: Court awards $10m against Shoprite owner

*Aide: Buhari’ll consider his health before deciding on second term

*Man abducts worshipper during church vigil, rapes her

*Fulani herdsmen burnt down my farm, says Falae

*Trump’s shitholes true, though low in diplomacy – Akinkunmi

*Imo Assembly moves against marijuana peddlers, smokers

*Woman arrested for buying seven abducted children

*I’m recruiting Rivers people to defend democracy, says Wike

*Buhari lacks physical, intellectual capacity to govern – Na’Abba

*Fuel queues return to Lagos, Ogun …NNPC blames hitch on vessels berthing

*Four feared dead in Adamawa herdsmen attack

*JNI accuses CAN of using herdsmen issue to destabilise Nigeria

*Suspected herdsmen kill hunter in Plateau

**AFRICA:

*Congolese security forces kill six while dispersing anti-Kabila protest

*South Africa's ANC to force Zuma to quit as president: reports

*Zimbabwe tells illegal vendors to quit Harare streets, may use army to clear them

**WORLD:

*Vietnam jails ex-Communist Party official

*Las Vegas rally marks anniversary of Women's March against Trump

*US shutdown hits as working week begins

*Tokyo holds evacuation drill to prepare for N. Korean threat

*Oxfam would rather make us all poorer than feed the world

*Among Rohingya, refugee squalor can seem better than home

*Tongan taekwondo Olympian qualifies for Pyeongchang 2018

*Tokyo braces for rare heavy snowfall, trains disrupted

*London and Israel are advancing the industries of the future

**SPORTS:

*Shehu bids farewell to Cypriot club

*Nigeria to host para-badminton workshop

*Dalung motivated Eagles to beat Libya –Dikko

*NPFL: Lobi Stars beat Go Round FC 1-0

*Real hit back at crisis talk, beat Deportivo 7-1

*Sanchez ‘arrives at Man Utd training ground’



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