Nigeria: Today's Newspaper Headlines [23 August, 2016]

Below are some of the headlines in some selected Nigerian Dailies for today, Tuesday, 23 August, 2016.

VANGUARD:

• Video: Watch As ‎Police, NSCDC, DSS Bar #BBOG From Entering Aso Villa
  
  
• 50-Yr-Old VGC Woman Was Murdered By Gateman Over Salary
  
  
• Stripping Of Girl, 15, In Ebonyi: Umahi Calls For Return Of Victim
  
  
• Abakaliki Jail Break: Human Rights Group Accuses Prisons Officials Of Extra-Judicial Killings
  
  
• Customs, Importers Bicker Over Exchange Rate Differentials
  
  
• Group Vows To Uphold Nigeria’s Unity, Tackle Corruption
  
  
• Transparency Initiative Petitions Buhari Over ‘Illegalities’ In Aviation College
  
  
• PDP Crisis: CJ Moves To Reconcile Contradictory Court Orders
  
  
• 3 Killed In Kaduna Villages After Gov El-Rufai’s Visit
  
  
• CBN Orders Banks To Sell 60% Forex To Manufacturers
  
  
• In Iraq, Nigeria And Now Turkey, Child Bombers Strike
  
  
• Farmers’re Aristocrats Of The Future—Kaduna Agric Commissioner
  
  
• Abubakar Urges Avengers, IPOB, MASSOB To See Project Nigeria As A Baby Learning How To Grow
  
  
• Tonye Cole Says Sahara’s Greatest Achievement At 20 Is Touching Lives
  
  
• Budget Padding: Lawmaker Warns Leadership On Danger Of Self-Exculpation
  
  
• Nigeria’s Oil Production To Remain Down Through 2017
  

PUNCH:

• Prophet chains 28 ‘sick’ persons in Lagos apartment
  
  
• Gunmen sack Imo community, kill nine
  
  
• Wife of Ogun council chairmanship candidate abducted
  
  
• Man who named dog Buhari sent to prison
  
  
• Fulani herdsmen kill RCCG pastor, two others in Kaduna
  
  
• Zamfara mob kills 8 over alleged blasphemy
  
  
• Restructuring can’t solve Nigeria’s problems says, Ganduje
  
  
• Police arrest 67 members of Benue killer gang
  
  
• Dialogue: New militant group rejects Clark, backs Diete-Spiff
  
  
• 200 arrested for cop’s death
  
  
• ‘Treat Avengers, IPOB as B’Haram’

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE:

• Only 1.5 Million Teachers Duly Qualified —TRCN Boss •Council Reintroduces Exams For Teachers
  
  
• Release Detained Students Without Bail, FUNAAB Students Tell Police •No Live Ammunition Was Used —PPRO
  
  
• Court Grants Man Who Named Dog ‘Buhari’ Bail
  
  
• Ex-Kogi Acting Gov Drags NHRC To Court, Demands N50m For Defamation
  
  
• FG Kicks Off N6bn Oyo/Ogbomoso Expressway Construction •Sets 2019 Completion Date
  
  
• APC Elders Forum Passes Vote Of Confidence On Kekemeke •He Stands Removed —SWC
  
  
• Lack Of Service Stalls Hearing Of Jimoh Ibrahim’s Case
  
  
• 5 Injured, No Death In Kano Varsity Building Collapse —VC
  
  
• CCT To Rule On Orubebe’s Case Sept 21, Saraki, Oct 5
  
  
• Insurgency: DSS Arrests Spiritualist, 18 Other High Ranking Terrorists
  
  
• Anti-Graft: We’re Not Fighting A Selective War —AGF
  
  
• Nigeria Can Defeat Polio Despite Challenges —Bill Gates
  
  
• Edo: INEC begins training of Adhoc staff

NEW TELEGRAPH:

• Fuel Marketers Fret As Banks Move To Recover N350bn Debt
  
  
• DSS Foils Planned Attacks On Edo, Kaduna, Kogi
  
  
• Presidency Confirms Seeking Emergency Plan To Reflate Economy
  
  
• Killer Diseases Rock Kebbi IDPs’ Camp
  
  
• Man Who Named Dog ‘Buhari’ Gets N50, 000 Bail
  
  
• Delta Quarantines 32 As Lassa Fever Kills Resident Doctor
  
  
• Seed Complex: Agency In Need Of Lifeline
  
  
• Mohammed Lauds Digitalisation Of Broadcasting
  
  
• Death Of Residents: Group Sue FG, AEDC, NERC, Others
  
  
• Ambode Approves N15.5m For RWS Students
  
  
• CBN To Banks: Give 60% Of Forex To Manufacturers

THE NATION:

• Lagos pastor chains son, 27 others
  
  
• DSS arrest Boko Haram suspects
  
  
• Chibok: govt unfair to us
  
  
• OPS backs Buhari on emergency powers bid
  
  
• Jegede is Ondo PDP candidate as Sheriff plans primary
  
  
• Buhari receives Kerry today
  
  
• Boko Haram: Army trains officers
  
  
• Fans bombard Aimakhu as mixed reactions trailed Mayowa's death
  
  
• FCT: Kwali council chair seeks autonomy
  
  
• 8 killed in Zamfara over alleges blasphemy against islam
  
  
• Osinbajo seeks closer cooperation among African leadership
  
  
• Nigeria will strengthen partnership with Islamic bank, says Buhari
  
  
• Mother, daughter found wandering in Ogun