Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [19 August, 2016]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Friday, 19 August, 2016.

PUNCH:

• Prophet offered me N6,000 to kidnap sisters – Suspect
  
  
• Davido in N7m concert fee controversy
  
  
• Post-UTME scrapping, a disaster –Obaji
  
  
• We’ll graduate maiden medical doctors December –Babcock VC
  
  
• Death toll hits 15 in Nasarawa flooding
  
  
• FIRS seals off Akume’s hotel over unpaid tax
  
  
• Police detain children, lawyer of Benue’s wanted killer
  
  
• Police chase away Buhari’s ex-bodyguards from APC office
  
  
• Killer driver not our member – Church
  
  
• Police arrest Rep’s abductors, recover N.25m
  
  
• Bolt wins third Olympic 200m title
  
  
• Buhari feeling Nigerians’pains — Osinbajo
  
  
• Jailbreak averted in Abakaliki prison
  
  
• ‘Enforce guidance and counselling units in schools’
  
  
• Four schoolgirls impregnated by their fathers in our custody — LASG
  
  
• FG releases unity schools’ admission list
  
  
• Budget padding: 10 principal officers disown Jibrin
  
  
• Enemies jealous of my rising profile –Jonathan

VANGUARD

• Relocate Your Hqtrs To A-Ibom Or…, Militant Group Warns Mobil
  
  
• Pipeline Workers Shut NPDC Pump Station In Delta Over Salary Backlog
  
  
• Protest : Rivers Re-Run Elections May Hold In Mid October – AMINA
  
  
• Woman Steals Two Children, Turns Them To Beggars In Ogun
  
  
• ONDO GOV POLL: APC Supporters In Free-For-All At Party Secretariat
  
  
• Repatriation Of Africa’s Stolen Funds: Buhari Calls For Removal Of Bureaucratic Hitches
  
  
• Jonathan Denies Link With Avengers
  
  
• Lady Chioma Contracted Me To Kidnap 2 Children—SUSPECT
  
  
• Lassa Fever: Protect Your Gari, Anambra Resident Told
  
  
• Economic Recession, N-Delta Crisis Unnecessary —Abubakar
  
  
• Rumble In Ondo PDP Ahead Of Gov Poll
  
  
• Oshiomhole, PDP Trade Words Over Alleged Importation Of Thugs
  
  
• 2000 PDP Faithful Defect To APC In Egor
  
  
• Ambode Is Working To Make Lagosians Good Ambassadors Of Nigeria — Ayorinde
  
  
• Team Nigeria Kits Arrive 3 Days To End Of Olympics Games
  
  
• Abang Shouldn’t Turn Himself To A Notorious Judge — Ajulo
  
  
• Non-Remittance Of Pension Funds: PenCom, EFCC Compiling List Of Defaulting Employers For Prosecution —PenCom DG
  

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• Avengers Vow To Declare Niger Delta Independence October 1
  
  
• Faceless Groups After My Reputation —Jonathan
  
  
• S/West APC Advocates Restructuring, Free Education
  
  
• Bello Threatens Legal Action Over N11b Fraud Allegation
  
  
• Kwara Govt Loses Over N400m To Illegal Recruitment
  
  
• Arrest Of Pilgrims In S/Arabia: NDLEA Deploys Investigators To Camps Nationwide
  
  
• We’ll Fast-Track IDPs’ Home Return —Buhari

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• APC To PDP: You Killed Nigeria’s Economy
  
  
• INEC Picks October For Rivers Rerun Election
  
  
• 10 Feared Dead As Prisoners Riot
  
  
• Budget Deficit Hits N19.2bn Daily –Kachikwu
  
  
• Avengers To Buhari: You Must Restructure Nigeria
  
  
• FG Slams $31.4m Fraud Charge On Jonathan’s Aide, Dudafa
  
  
• FG Must Resolve N’Delta Crisis, Others – Abubakar
  
  
• UK, Rivers Partner On Security, Education, Agriculture
  
  
• Deadly Disease, Smallpox Could Return
  
  
• Drug Trafficking: NDLEA Floods Hajj Camps With Investigators
  
  
• Again, Lassa Fever Hits Anambra, Kills Doctor, Three Others
  
  
• Appeal Court Upturns Ikpeazu’s Sack

THE NATION:

• N350m poll cash: I've nothing to hide - Udenwa
  
  
• Umahi declares state of emergency on Abakaliki prisons
  
  
• We'll position NIS to world standard – Dambazau
  
  
• We will restore confidence in IDPs – Buhari
  
  
• Navy foils pirates' attack on oil tanker
  
  
• Navy targets 50% reliance on renewable energy by 2020 – Osinbajo
  
  
• Appeal Court Reverses Ikpeazu's Sack
  
  
• South West APC insists on true Federalism
  
  
• Kwara loses N400m to illegal recruitment
  
  
• Fayose fails to stop EFCC probe
  
  
• Gunshots at APC Secretariat in Akure
  
  
• Sheriff rejects another judgement sacking him