NEWS HEADLINES IN NIGERIA FOR TODAY

NATIONAL MIRROR

EMERGENCY RULE: Troops secure 5 towns,
arrest 120 terrorists;
Nigerians not fleeing to Niger, Chad—
DHQ;
1,000 additional soldiers deployed;
Security reports on Ondo 2007 election
forged, police, SSS;
Again, Southern leaders demand national
confab; give January 2014 as deadline for
talks
Sovereign Wealth Fund opens 81billion
Naira portfolio in June;
My pardon was negotiated, says Alams;
FG has 1,000 unresolved pension
complaints;
Tax remittances: Reps threaten to arrest 9
bank MDs;
Security beefed up at airports…as unions
end strike;

DAILY NEWSWATCH
TAX EVASION: 9 bank CEOs risk arrest;
1,000 more soldiers deployed to Adamawa
120 terrorists held, more communities
secured;
Strange storm destroys 350 houses,
renders 6,000 homeless;
NASS may reject Sambo’s additional
9billion Naira residential budget;
Mimiko forged security report on Ondo
governorship poll—SSS;
BLUE PRINT
No vacancy in Aso Rock, say Clark, Alams;
PDP NWC flees secretariat over sack
threat;
Military arrests 120 Boko Haram members;
Man, 32, docked for killing brother;
Kwankwaso bans street begging in Kano;
VANGUARD
120 insurgents arrested at burial of Boko
Haram commander;
2015: Jonathan must contest, Clark tells
Northern leaders;
21-yr-old mother of 5 causes stir over
‘hunger’;
Windstorm kills one, displaces six
communities;
Achebe, A Man Ahead Of His Generation,
By Prof Bart Nnaji;
Ondo 2007 guber: Security reports were
forged – DG DSS;
4 die, 10 injured as rival youths clash in
Anambra;
NAPTIP prosecutes 4 over human
trafficking;
War on Terror: Defence HQ moves to
strengthen military/civilian relations;

PUNCH
Customs arrest suspects with $2.7m at
Lagos airport;
Tax remittance: Reps threaten to arrest
bank CEOs;
Insurgents regroup in Adamawa
mountains;
FG rules out supplementary budget for
military operations;
Amaechi, Akpabio camps intensify lobby for
NGF seat;
How Jonathan got his groove back;

GUARDIAN
Military captures 120 Boko Haram
members in Maiduguri
No hiding place for terrorists, says army
chief
Yobe relaxes curfew;
Govt allays fears as aviation workers end
strike;
Police beef up security, minister allays fear
Southern leaders urge confab, seek end to
corruption, others;
Clark against power shift from South;
Reps panel threatens arrest of bank chiefs
over tax remittance
Sovereign Wealth fund takes off in June
with $850m
Minister lists benefits of emergency rule;
Commonwealth nations move to empower,
protect persons with mental disorders;
Government now running agriculture
strictly as business, says minister;

DAILY SUN
STATE OF EMERGENCY: As Special Forces
storm Adamawa, 120 terrorists captured…
at burial of slain Boko Haram commander;
Insurgents’ camps destroyed; fresh curfew
in Yobe
Achebe’s body arrives aboard a British
Airways; leaves for Enugu today
Jonathan, Nnamani, others pay tribute
Ahead today’s Senate debate: APC
senators dump party to back emergency rule

SOCCER STAR
Mexico names Chicharito, Dos Santos for
Eagles;
Dynamo Kiev blasts Ideye, Haruna;
Ambrose targets Confed Cup glory;
Messi commits future to Barca;
Balotelli racially abused again;
Everton, Spurs to pay 2.1billion naira for
Onazi;
Hull City to splash point-seven billion naira
on Osaze;
Amodu thumbs up Mikel, Moses;