Nigerian Newspaper Headlines Today: 7th December

Punch

Edo trafficked victims to undergo medical test

The Edo State Task Force against Human Trafficking has said that the victims recently repatriated from Libya will  undergo medical screening for infectious diseases.

Vanguard

Makarfi denies presidential ambition

ENUGU—THE lnterim National Chairman of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and former governor of Kaduna State, Senator Ahmed Mohammed Makarfi, has denied media reports that he had interest in contesting the 2019 presidential elections.

Thisday

FG Orders Kachikwu to End Fuel Scarcity

The federal government Wednesday in Abuja, denied insinuations that the current fuel scarcity plaguing the country is a ploy to increase the pump price of petrol.

The Sun

Fuel scarcity: Petrol hawkers take over Lagos, Abuja roads

Nigeria’s fuel supply glitch which entered its third day, Wednesday, continued unabated, as most of the filling stations visited by Daily Sun in both Lagos and Abuja were either out of supply or had little quantity of petroleum products to dispense.

Daily Times

N400m fraud trial: “I received N7. 4m from Metuh,” says AIT director

The Director of News of the Africa Independent Television (AIT), Mr. Adebayo Bodurin on Wednesday told the Federal High Court in Abuja that former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Olisa Metuh paid Daar Communication PLC the owner of AIT and Ray Power Radio the sum of N7,492,250 million for public sanitization advertisements in 2014.

Guardian

FG blames fuel scarcity on external demand

The Federal Government has blamed the ongoing fuel scarcity on increased demand by nations in temperate regions.Addressing State House correspondents after a Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, yesterday, Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed…

Daily Trust

PDP says Atiku will not vote at convention

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), yesterday, said a former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, will not vote at Saturday’s national convention.

Tribune

PDP woos Saraki, Kwankwaso, others

The Board of Trustees of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called on aggrieved members who left the party to follow the footsteps of former Vice President Abubakar Atiku “and return home.”

Leadership

$16bn Egina Probe: Senate Orders NAPIMS GMD To Appear In 24 Hours

The Senate Committee on Local Content has ordered the Group General Manager of National Petroleum Investment and Management Service (NAPIMS) Mr. Roland Ewubare, to appear before the committee in the next 24 hours or risk the constitutional consequences of his shunning of invitation from the Senate.

The Nation

Fayose can set up probe panel on Fayemi, says court

An Ekiti State High Court has ruled that the Judicial Commission of Enquiry, which Governor Ayodele Fayose set up to probe the state’s finances under former Governor Kayode Fayemi, is in order.