Today's National News Headlines [Fri-12-Jun-2015]

Good Morning.....Thank God it is FRIDAY!

The daily news is still filled with drama #NoBoo

PUNCH

*Lagos, others defend huge pension for ex-govs, deputies

*Kashamu's extradition hearing begins June 25

*B'Haram: Buhari to present military's needs to G-7

*We'll follow due process to punish Saraki, others 'APC

*ALGON rejects Wike's plan to dissolve Rivers councils

*Community development is our priority, says Ambode

*NAP asks Aregbesola to resign over unpaid salaries

*June 12: ARG remembers MKO, slams Kingibe

*Lagos, Kwara APC clash over Tinubu, Saraki

*Sarakis emergence not illegal NBA president

*I'm Tinubus boy but Saraki's election is fair -Momodu

*Between MKOs June 12 and Sarakis June 9

*Nigerians who hate Americas John Kerry

*Aso Villa authorities reject 253 DSS officials

*Facebook hosts 50 fake accounts of Aisha Buhari

*Ex-CBN governor, Sanusi, joins Blackstone

*Mbu denies torture allegation by fraud suspects

*PDP begs NEMA to donate food to Osun workers

*Saraki congratulates Dogara, seeks inter-chamber cooperation

*Im not insensitive to workers plight Aregbesola

*BHaram kills 37 in Borno

*N8bn scam: Banker made N30m in one deal, says EFCC

*Housemaid arraigned for stealing N7m property

*Lagos cultists abduct former leader for leaving gang

*Just like Ebola, MERS is deadly

*Martins returns after nose surgery

*We're ready for Australia 'Oshoala

VANGUARD

*Abiola, June 12 and the road not taken

*Rivers Assembly grants Wike’s request for N10bn loan

*Pensioners’ protest: Night guard slumps, dies in Osun

*NITDA to generate $15bn from indigenous IT products, services  by 2018

*38-yr-old woman to die by hanging over step-son’s murder

*Man accused of incest with 14-year-old daughter

*‘Rivers ogogoro crisis can’t stop business in Abuja’

*Man, 27, jailed 21 years for defiling 6-yr-old girl

*Value of CBN currency fraud more than N8bn – EFCC

*MKO Abiola: Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Oyo declare June 12 public holiday

*Lagos to provide 20 new rural roads in each LGA annually

*N1.9bn Ebola fund scam: Ministry staff stop arrest of officials

*Youths, LG bosses protest alleged move to dissolve Rivers councils

*KORA All-Africa Music Awards 2015 announces $1m prize for Best African Artist

*Medical student’s murder: Court admits exhibits against ex-NURTW boss, Auxiliary

*Spare parts dealers ask govt to tackle exchange rate

*Military personnel, six others arrested over cocaine possession

*Seme Customs destroys smuggled N4m poultry products

*Bauchi appoints EFCC, police, others to recover govt property

*We’ll not touch abandoned projects, says Gov Bello

*Oyo Assembly’s principal officers’ election illegal — Ladoja

*Abia Election Tribunal grants Otti time to inspect electoral materials

*N2.bn allegation baseless, total blackmail, says ex-Niger SSG

*Bauchi set to pay workers’ outstanding salary

*31-yr-old man docked over N293,000 theft

*FG seeks end to food importation

*NDDC distributes transformers in Delta

*PDP warns Presidency, APC against witch hunting clerk, Assembly Commission

*NASS: Saraki, Lawan’s men close ranks

*FG to rebuild churches, mosques destroyed by insurgents, to bear major cost of MNJTF

*Welcome O’ Ramadan!

THE NATION 

*Trader jailed 21 years for defiling girl, six

*Buhari intervenes in Senate dispute to save APCs unity

*N12b currency scam: N3.9b destroyed with acid, water, court told

*Banks to name debtors Aug.1

*June 12 challenges us to guard our democracy

*Court to open hearing June 25 in application to extradite Kashamu

*INEC to revalidate 2015 election report

*Shyllon donates over N2.2b artworks, seed money to museum

*Lagos, others justify laws on ex-governors, deputies pension

*Gbajabiamila, supporters accept Dogara as Speaker

*Banks loans stand at N14tr, says Bankers Committee

*Order against new electricity tariff subsisting, says court

*Adeyemi: It wont be business as usual for APC

*Saraki, Dogara: APC diasporas call for sanctions

THISDAY 

*UNICEF: $26.5m Needed to Cater for IDPs in North-east

*Drug Screening: Ondo Procures Truscan Machine

*UNAIDS Laments Inadequacy of Funds Earmarked for HIV/AIDS

*Buhari Wants Boko Haram's Access to Funds, Weapons, Others Limited

*Power Tussle: Lawan, Akume, Gbajabiamila Meet APC Leadership

*Ekiti Assembly: Abduction of Reverend Father Conspiracy Against Fayose's Govt

*Obasanjo: Why Ribadu Was Poisoned

*Labour Heckles President on Fuel Scarcity, 

*NASS Power Tussle: APC, Buhari Reach Out for Peace Accord

*Rivers: Local Govt Chairmen, Councillors Protest Against Planned Dissolution of Councils

*Okowa Appoints THISDAY's Victor Efeizomor, Others as Media Aides

*How Saraki, Dogara Snookered APC with the Help of PDP

*Ita-Giwa to APC: Tread Softly on N'Assembly Leadership Furore

*Elections Petition Tribunal Starts Hearing on Sylva's Suit against Murray Bruce

*Meseko Urges Aggrieved APC Members to Accept Saraki

*Kwara APC Lauds Buhari's Position on Outcome of N'Assembly Poll

*Judge Issues Stern Warning to Union Bank over 'Gross Indiscipline

*Amnesty International is out to Demoralise, Destabilise Nigeria's Military, Says Group

DAILY POST

*Enugu Governor appoints SSG, media aides

*Subsequent NECO exams will be Computer-Based – Board Chairman

*Labourer to receive 7 strokes of the cane for stealing two bags of cement

*Aluu 4: Absence of suspects stalls trial

*Archbishop advocates scrapping of security votes, office of First Lady

*Ex-Governors Lamido, Elechi to be quizzed by EFCC