SOME NIGERIAN NEWSPAPER HEADLINES, 18/03/2022

Punch
Nigeria borrowed N6.64tn, serviced debt with N2.93tn in 2021, says DMO

Nigeria asks China to fast-track $500m loan

Soludo sworn in as Anambra governor, retains Obiano’s SSG

EFCC picks up US-bound ex-gov Obiano at Lagos airport

OAU student death: We buried decomposing corpse, says LG officer

Court fixes date for hearing against arrest of suspended Kano anti-corruption boss

Nigeria gets ECOWAS’ $1m humanitarian assistance

AfDB secures $15.6bn for Lagos-Abidjan highway corridor

FG plans new trade policy, 24-hour port operations

FG reappoints BoI chairman, MD for another term

23 bank CEOs now women, says CBN

OPEC quota: Elumelu disagrees with Sylva over low oil sector investment

Lassa fever killed 112 in 2022, 45 health workers infected – NCDC

Nigerians want to win every trophy – Eguavoen

I thought my first Eagles call-up was a prank – Anaemena

Knee injury knocks Ndidi out of Ghana clash

APC in race to hold March 26 convention, battles injunction

Northern bizmen buy N40m PDP presidential form for Atiku

Sanwo-Olu mourns veteran journalist, Emeka Obasi

Emmanuel to sack five commissioners, forwards nominees to Assembly

Gunmen invade Kaduna community, abduct 47 in midnight raid

Man, 50, defiles 12-year-old pap hawker in Gombe, confesses to crime

Father demands justice as 60-year-old arrested for alleged defilement of Rivers physically challenged girl

Ife indigenes protest as OAU names Bamire 12th VC

Protest over Bamire’s appointment as OAU VC

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The Nation
Buhari mourns Hallmark publisher Emaka Obasi

Nigeria raises $1.25b through Eurobonds

Court orders Ex-Chief of Air Staff to refund N57m or lose Abuja home

Umahi sack: INEC gets nine orders, motions from courts

HYPPADEC to empower 10,000 youths in six states

Sugar Master Plan: We’ve created 15,000 jobs – FG

Rice fortification underway, says Fed Govt

CBN to Nigerians: avoid companies promising easy loans

JAMB discovers 1m illegal admissions

ASUU strike: UI closed down till further notice

NPFL to go on two-week break

Canada confirm Super Falcons friendlies for April

Moghalu joins presidential race

Buni douses tension, rallies APC governors for convention

I can’t be sacked, says embattled Anglican priest

Tension in Akwa Ibom as Navy stops church building project

Katsina commissioner joins governorship race

Bandits abduct 48 in Southern Kaduna community

GTCO rallies support for 26th NUGA Games

Soludo begs after Bianca, Obiano’s wife brawl at inauguration

Gunmen kill community leader, three others in Imo

One feared killed in renewed Ebonyi, Cross River boundary dispute

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Vanguard
Insecurity: We fund security more than FG — Govs

Energy crisis: Price of cooking gas rises by 14% in 2 weeks

EFCC arrests Willie Obiano at Lagos Airport

Nigeria raises $1. 25 b Eurobonds

Ebonyi: INEC to take decision on Gov Umahi’s fate next week

Federal lawmaker proposes 3-year validity for UTME results

Customs impounds India hemp, timber, donkey skin, others worth N373.6m

Activation of MoU with China ‘ll boost tourism – Lai Mohhammed

ASUU rollover strike: Bauchi traders, landlords groan as varsity students vacate hostels

Russia-Ukraine War: FG to issue new trade policy

Business forum buys N40m 2023 Presidential nomination form for Atiku

FCCPC freezes accounts of digital money lenders

Emefiele moves to get more women into banks’ top management

Enugu 2023 guber: Attack on Ekweremadu, show of weakness — Nwoye

2023: Umahi’s hometown backs his administration, presidential ambition

Edo PDP chieftain shot by unknown gunmen

Ladoja visits new Olubadan, says ‘I bear no grudges’

Anambra Senator, Stella Oduah, condemns fracas between Obiano’s wife and Bianca Ojukwu

I was invited from Lagos to burgle cement shop in Osun – Suspect

Police arraign 2 men for allegedly assaulting EKEDC staff in Badagry

Delta police arrest 2 for alleged murder of army officer

Ogoni cleanup: Stakeholders brainstorm on strategies for seamless operations

Five escape as kidnappers abduct 8 in Kwara

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