Today's News Headlines - 8/9/2015

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PUNCH

*Naira drops to 223 as dollar demand grows

*FG approves new petrol import permits

*NNPC, security agencies meet over oil theft

*Doctors insist on medical check-up for LASG officials

*Aregbesola'll pay workers salaries this month Rep

*Buhari belongs to North alone Ezeife

*Should Ndigbo tax themselves to build Second Niger Bridge?

*Obasanjo urges African leaders to tackle poverty

*C&S crisis led to church growth in Nigeria

*Buhari replies critics: I have declared my assets four times since 1974

*Civil servants corrupt, lazy, says President

*Appointments not yardstick of development APC

*Senate begins power probe today

*Abia health workers suspend strike

*BHaram war exposes flaws in military, says Army chief

*Girl, 10, dies in well

DAILY POST

*Lagos highway sweepers protest non-payment of salaries

*INEC to end PVCs transfers in Kogi,

*Police recovers kidnapped Bishop’s car in Delta

*Appointments: Buhari will not snub Igbos, women, youths – APC BoT member

*DSS release Ogun-based cleric after 424 days

*Akpabio thanks Buhari, Jonathan, others, says “people should stop politicising disasters”

*I completed 42 roads in 100 days – Wike

*How Wike runs Rivers from his room with Patience Jonathan, militant leaders –

*CACOL asks Saraki, Dogara to declare assets publicly

*Power sector: Senate begins probe of Obasanjo

*Six-year-old boy dies as two boats collide in Lagos

*Suspected cultists kill 40-year-old in Ondo

*Teenage boy burnt to death in Lekki

*30 women sentenced to six weeks imprisonment for prostitution

*Taraba monarch, chief on peace mission killed

*“I am not a magician” – Oliseh

*Besiktas reveal how Mikel Obi deal collapsed, claim he could join in January

*Team Nigeria powerlifters vow to bring back 10 gold medals

*Pogba hints at Juventus exit

*US Open 2015: Serena to face Venus in quarter-finals

*Politics has not changed me – Desmond Elliot

*My daughter stopped me from smoking – Jeta Amata

*Nollywood: Pastor tasks FG on piracy

VANGUARD

*My ministers, a must this month ' Buhari

*Senate begins probe of Obasanjo,

*Yar'Adua, others over power funds mismanagement

*My wife denies me of sex, 75-yr-old man tells court

*PDP governors in show of force

*Buhari has committed impeachable offences ' Senator Okon

*No sacred cows in anti-corruption war 'Sagay

*173 sickle cell persons die in 3yrs in Anambra

*Bayelsa POLL: Jonathan endorses Dickson for 2nd term

*Concerted efforts needed against pipeline vandalism, crude theft

*No new jobs created in oil sector in 3 months ' NBS

*Eagles to test more players against Niger

*I'm no magician, Oliseh insists

*Euro 2016: Italy may dump Pirlo

*Dj Cuppy, Kiss Daniel, Yemi Alade, others shine at NEA awards

*Fan gives Wizkid gold chain on stage

*Malnutrition: The unseen enemy in every home

*Aba residents, motorists groan under bad roads, traffic jams

THE NATION

*21 ex-governors, ministers to lose passports by force

*Buhari: I'll name my ministers this month

*Nigeria sends Togolese asylum seekers back home

*Obasanjo advises youths against risky voyage to Europe

*Man docked for alleged N10.5m fraud

*Landlord threatens mother, child defiled by neighbour with eviction

BBC

*Turkey 'to wipe out' PKK after attack

*Koreas agree on rare family reunions

*Doctor accused of swapping baby

*Footballers cash in on transfer deals

*Japan stocks mixed on revised growth

*Ex-Chad leader forced into court

*Ukraine crisis: Is conflict fuelling far-right threat

*Anderson stuns Murray at US Open

*NHS 'to send patients to France

*Social media is England's enemy

*'Every child needs best start in life

*Venus ready to end Serena Grand Slam

*Migrants defy Hungary police lines

*NY governor's aide shot in the head

CNN

*Koreas agree to family reunions in October

*Police: One of Bangkok bomb suspects confesses

*North Korean defector says that Kim's days are numbered

*Queen Nefertiti's resting place discovered

*Scientists: Oldest stone tools found in Kenya

*72-year-old captures grit, graffiti of NYC's street art

*Pope to announce changes to annulments for divorce

*American woman in Nepal for quake relief is killed

*Germany: We can't keep this up

*Andy Murray crashes out of U.S. Open

*New York governor's lawyer shot

*Israel struggles to crack down on Jewish extremists

*Russian intelligence ship spotted near American oil vessel

*No evidence' for Mexico's claim missing students were burned, report says

*Car plows into crowd at Spanish rally, killing 6

*Boat sinks off Malaysia, at least 61 dead

*Guatemala election: Millions vote, but runoff widely expected

*Netanyahu: Israel starts building fence along border with Jordan

*Palestinian mother dies after attack that claimed husband, baby

*Nigeria's new World Trade Center poised to send its economy sky high