Nigeria Newspaper Headlines - January 22, 2014

Punch
  • Anti-Amaechi protesters threaten to shut down P’Harcourt airport
  • Ministers: Senate to screen Gusau, Obanikoro, 10 others next week
  • Commotion in House of Reps over leadership change
  • Otudeko’s $48m suit against Dangote for hearing Feb. 6
  • Amaechi, others can’t be APC states’ leaders – Shekarau
  • Chinese activist lawyer Xu Zhiyong on trial
  • Tukur asks for wisdom for Mu’azu
  • Pepper theft: IG takes over probe into torture
  • I’ll reconcile PDP members, says Mu’azu
  • Violence: Impeach Amosun, LP tells lawmakers
  • Rivers: crisis worries Tambuwal
  • Rivers: Anarchy looms, APC warns Jonathan
  • Oyinlola may regain position in PDP –Investigation
  • Emergency rule has failed – Human Rights Watch
  • Rivers crisis: Police arrest pro-Amaechi council chairmen
Vanguard
  • Drama as APC, PDP Reps test might
  • Jonathan nominates Gusau, Obanikoro, Haruna, Wali, 8 others as
  • ministers
  • Without Goodluck, Nigeria would have disintegrated— Smart Adeyemi
  • We'll reconcile all factions in PDP — Mu'azu
  • S-West marginalised by President Jonathan's govt - Tony Nyiam
  • Gay-Marriage Law: US threatens to sanction Nigeria
  • Ogun APC: The trouble that was foretold
  • Teenager caged for 30 months by parents released in Bayelsa
  • 18-yr-old girl dies of abortion as Police nab lover, quack nurse
  • We’ll reconcile all factions in PDP — Mu’azu
  • FRAUD: EFCC arrests man for cloning Fashola’s wife, Okonjo-Iweala’s Facebook accounts
  • 3 feared dead, scores missing in fresh Tiv, herdsmen clash
  • Nigeria without Oil Thefts
  • Ogun APC crisis: LP wants Amosun impeached
  • We’ll stop Morocco – Uzoenyi
  • Community urges Lagos Police boss to probe death of constable’s wife
  • Jonathan moves to raise Diaspora Bond to $300m
  • ‘Ejigbo 2′: IG orders Force hqtrs to take over investigation

Daily Independent
  • Reps in rowdy session over plot to change leadership
  • Pro-Mbu protesters shut down Port Harcourt
  • Osoba, Amosun feud: APC leadership’s burden
  • Disclose amount paid to political office holders, union task Finance Minister
  • LOC thumbs up CHAN
  • People will soon see the other side of me – Soul E
  • Jonathan sends Cybercrime Bill to Senate
  • Jonathan appoints Tukur NRC Chairman
  • Govs, Obanikoro, Ogunlewe task Mu’azu on reconciliation
  • Youth leader arrested after visit to Jonathan’s wife
  • Strike: FG agrees to pay ASUP N20b salary arrears
  • Aruwa says 2015 is Jonathan’s turn, urges North to wait
Nigerian Tribune
• Jonathan nominates Obanikoro, Gusau, Haruna, 9 others as ministers
•Tukur now Nigerian Railway Corporation chairman
• Reps row over leadership change •Tambuwal calls for caution •PDP delaying the inevitable –APC caucus
• Anti-Amaechi protesters shut Port Harcourt down
• Bafarawa, Marwa, Shekarau to form New APC —Kwara chapter •May face expulsion as APC NEC meets tomorrow
• Torture of Ejigbo market women: IGP orders FCID to take over case
• Strike: FG, ASUP exchange words at Abuja meeting •FG approves N20.4bn arrears to striking lecturers
• I will reconcile PDP warring factions —Mu’azu
• Fulani invasion: Hundreds displaced in Makurdi
• CDS, service chiefs to wait for new ranks, until ...
• ‘Men who have multiple sexual partners prone to prostate cancer’
• Catholic mission christens mentally-challenged woman’s twins
• Nigerian politicians have sacrificed governance for ambition —Mark
•Sets up panel on attacks on Abe, Ndume, Obadara

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