Today's National News Headlines [Sat-20-Jun-2015]

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Happy Saturday.....

PUNCH 

*Atiku, Akande battle for APC BOT chairmanship

*Be patient, Buhari tells Nigerians

*Probe: Army flays AI's refusal to cooperate

*Illegal crude lifting: EFCC quizzes NPDC workers

*Prune ministries to 19, Joda committee tells Buhari

*Gang up against Saraki, Ekweremadu'll fail ' Senator

*APC'll resist attempts to rubbish Tinubu 'Chieftain

*G7, AU visits: The controversy after

*DSS disobeys court order, detains cleric

*Army says 350 BHaram suspects to face trial

*Ambode sacks LSDPC boss, appoints new CEO

*Buhari'll support probe of Amaechi  - Wike

*Austerity: Dont cut our salaries, civil servants warn Buhari

*Teachers doubt Aregbesolas promise to pay June 30

*Oshiomhole tasks LG councils on workers salaries

*Power failure: Nigerians burn N17.5tn fuel on generators in five years

*Lagos govt hasn't been fair to Jakande 'Jafojo

*Competition for women, jobs caused S'Africa's xenophobic attack 'Anyene

*Mariam Adebayo, latest Nigerian killed by American lover

*Child rapists on the loose: How Nigerian policemen aid paedophiles to escape justice

*I've forgiven Uba brothers but I've not forgotten 'Ngige

*I spent less than three years with Fani-Kayode 'Ex-wife, Yemisi Wada

*Gunmen abduct CAN boss in Ondo

*Inadequate prosecution of abuse cases encourage paedophiles 'Experts

*Okada riders protest against police extortion in Akure

*I never imagined my three friends could gang rape me

*Even at 64, I won't stop acting like young boy 'Charly Boy.

VANGUARD

*APC crisis: Saraki, others seek Obasanjo's advice

*Revenue collectors chase school bus into a ditch at Nkpor

*Only enemies of Ndigbo would call for Ekweremadu's resignation ' WIC

*PDP senators will defend Saraki, Ekweremadu

*APC crisis: Party demands apology from Saraki, Dogara

*Don't slash civil servants' salary, Labour tells FG

*El-Rufa'i stops free Ramadan rice, oil, sugar

*What they misread in Sexual Offences Bill ' Chris Anyanwu

*Opposition trails El-Rufa'i's Kaduna change initiatives

*Emehor, Ogboru should withdraw their suits against Okowa ' Onosoke

*Edo ALGON defends Oshiomhole over misappropriation allegation

*Critics say ICC's focus on African leaders inappropriate

*Why Ekweremadu's re-election is in Order

In defence of Oyegun

*Nollywood films for OSCAR 2016

*Toba Falode immortalised

*Desmond Elliot, Funke Akindele, Yinka Davies, Tosyn Bucknor, Walk For Sickle Cell

*Skales Album Launch Concert In Owerri Tomorrow

THE NATION

*Fallout of NAssembly polls: Saraki takes case to Obasanjo

*Atiku, Kwankwaso, Tambuwal and Ekweremadu

*APC working hard to end crisis, says party chair Oyegun

*How Wikes agents invaded my home, damaged my husbands car Ex-Rivers commissioner

*FG appeals orders on Kashamus arrest, extradition

*French agency to boost Nigerias power transmission with 170m

*Suspect charged with murder in killings at black U.S. church

*Ahmed, party chair, supporters receive Saraki in Kwara

*Chad to round up beggars, foreigners after Boko Haram attack

THISDAY 

*Rasheed Olaoluwa: I Was Nervous When Appointed As BOI Boss

*Commission Asks Enugu to Determine Cause of Death of 51 Corpses in Its Mortuary

*War Crimes: Nigerian Military Accuses AI of Bullying, Premeditated Agenda

*Aku Confirms Winding Down of SURE-P, Sack of Staffers

*Undergraduate Jailed for Duping Job Seekers

*Economy: Dogara Uhrges Nigerians to Make Sacrifices

*Kano Relaxes Restriction on Motorcyclists

*Trouble Brews as Jang, JIBWIS Exchange Jabs over Plateau Killings

*Wike Begins Probe of Amaechi's Administration

*N8bn Currency Scam: 5 Bankers Get Bail, 10 Others Denied as Trial BeginsJune 26

*Plateau Begins Payment of Backlog of Workers' Salaries

*Buhari Felicitates With Williams at 100

*Employment: Arase Enjoins Industrialists to Increase Investment

*Law of Karma and Kwankwaso's Fear of Tambuwalization

*I Made Babangida, Buhari to Become Friends Again

*Osun Legislators Should Impeach Aregbesola

*Governor Ugwuanyi's Peace, Development Initiatives

DAILYPOST

*President Buhari will support my probe of Amaechi’s corrupt practices – Wike

*Buhari never said he was too old to govern – Nigerians in South Africa

*We don’t earn close to N1million a month – Dogara

*Nigeria’s situation needs divine intervention – El-Rufai

*Gunmen abduct Vice Chancellor of Rivers state University