NEWSPAPER HEADLINES
27/08/2021

*The Punch*
Kidnapped Niger Islamiyya pupils regain freedom 88 days after

Gunmen in police uniform destroy ATMs, steal N20m in Rivers

Organisers suspend Saudi Arabia recruitment as DSS disperses doctors, arrests journalist

Resident doctors hold NEC meeting, resolve to continue strike

Kale retires, Buhari appoints Harry statistician-general

Increase tuition to N14m, Reps tell aviation college

Subsidy payment draining scarce resources, say Reps

400,000 apply for 200 ICPC job slots

Police arraign 25-year-old man over social media post

We don’t have petrol consumption records, says PPPRA

Ortom’s interview: SANs berate NBC for grilling Channels TV’s presenters

Troubles ahead, experts warn as debt servicing gulps 91% of revenue

FG inaugurates 12-member panel for Independence Day

FG unveils mobile phone training platform for farmers

DSS forced Kanu’s lawyers to wear slippers –Lead counsel

Stella Oduah dumps PDP, joins APC

FCMB, Mercy Corps to uplift 500,000 farmers

Paralympics: I can’t eat, says elated gold medallist Tijani

Insecurity: Sit up, Sultan, Ortom, others tell FG, bandits may take over Villa, gov warns

Olubadan clocks 93

*The Nation*
Govt spends N2.02tr on debt servicing, says Budget Office

Governors, Sylva’s panel to work on PIA’s grey areas

Court returns Secondus as PDP National Chairman

Appeal Court slams EFCC for abuse of power

IGP receives report on Abba Kyari

Sowore, others storm NBC over Channels TV query

We did not arrest Channels TV presenters, says DSS

Nigeria’s GDP leaps 5.01 per cent in Q2

Tears, trauma as families, colleagues remember victims of 2011 UN House bombing

Jos attacks: Hospital wards, mortuaries filled with victims, say doctors

Fed Govt honours Mirabel Centre founder

Zulum’s passion to end insecurity inspiring, say APC governors

Ortom: Address issues I raised

Ebonyi counters presidency, denies receiving N6bn for ranching

Niger deploys 10 buses to convey freed Tegina Islamiyya pupils

Lagos records 10 virus-related deaths

Osun resumes market rallies to sensitise residents

Alex Ekubo, fiancée break up three months after engagement

*Vanguard*
Finally, 136 abducted Tegina pupils released; on their way to Minna

States submit Endsars panels’ report to NEC, Lagos to wrap up October

Classifying Nigerians as indigenes, non-indigenes is apartheid – Osinbajo

Ortom interview: Channels TV team meets with NBC in Abuja

At least 13 dead as blast spreads terror amid Kabul airport airlifts

EFCC secures jail terms for 33 yahoo boys within 24 hours

Senator Orji, Ohuabunwa mourn lady Aguiyi-Ironsi, Okpara’s wife

Court Order: FG tackles Falana over comments on doctors’ strike

PIA: Governors ready to work with Buhari, sets up committee

Okebukola hails Buhari on reappointment of Oloyede, Rasheed for JAMB, NUC jobs

NDA attack: It’s evil, pure and simple by Femi Adesina

Female genital mutilation, worst human rights violation in Nigeria — UNICEF

No grazing routes in Igboland ―INM tells Buhari

Ondo Assembly appeals to striking doctors to resume work

Police arrest 352 suspects in Bauchi

Fuel tanker explodes at Owode Ibeshe road, Ikorodu

Drug War: NDLEA takes campaign against drug abuse to Abuja IDPs’ camp

Seek foreign help to end insecurity, Northern Christian Elders tell Buhari

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