Nigerian newspaper headlines January 31, 2017.
Punch
Two killed in foiled suicide attack in Maiduguri
One Civilian JTF and a male suicide bomber lost their lives in a foiled suicide bomb attack in Dalori Quarters in Maiduguri.
Guardian
High rate of homosexual abuse worries Borno residents
Some residents of Maiduguri have decried the increasing cases of child abuses by unscrupulous homosexual persons.
Vanguard
Senate meets today for smooth passage of 2017 budget
SENATE Leader, Senator Ahmad Lawan has told Nigerians that the 2017 budget would be smoothly and promptly passed, just as he said that the leadership will meet today with chairmen of committees on the way forward for the budget.
The Nation
Five oil firms implicated in Diezani’s $153m scandal
Five oil companies have been linked with the $153million seized from former Minister of Petroleum Resources Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke.
Leadership
Nigeria’s Crude Export To Rise As Forcados Pipeline Reopens
Nigeria’s oil export will receive a boost as a major export facility, Trans Forcados Pipeline which was shut for most of 2016 is set to be reopened.
Thisday
Customs Seizes 661 Pump Action Rifles Imported from China
The Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) in Ikeja, Lagos, has arrested three men identified as Oscar Okafor, Mahmud Hassan and Sadique Mustapha for the unlawful importation of 49 boxes containing 661 pump action rifles which were concealed in a container conveying steel products and other merchandise goods.
Premium Times
AU re-admits Morocco
Morocco was on Monday readmitted into the African Union at the 28th AU summit of Head of States and Government in Addis Ababa.
The Sun
Man erects Goodluck Jonathan’s statue at UNIPORT
A man has erected the statue of former President Goodluck Jonathan at the University of Port Harcourt (UNIPORT).
