Dailies Headlines For Today Tuesday August 29th, 2017

*Legal framework, key to digital migration drive – Ugbe*

*Fire razes PLASPOLY female hostel*

*ABU team wins Enactus, Lekoil environmental challenge*

*Losing Okpewho is like losing a parent – Former students*

*Ibadan PlayHouse to perform in Lagos, Osogbo*

*The problem with ‘Don’t naked me’*

*Ogun police arrest man for allegedly hacking farmer to death*

*Six children rescued from alleged human trafficker*

*I complied with Police Act in resigning ‘ Misau*

*Gunmen kill one, abduct four travellers, demand N3m in Ondo*

*Mark Zuckerberg welcomes second daughter*

*My husband asked me to approve sale of our child to fund my bride price*

*Cannibal arrested while preparing ‘pepper’ soup with human intestines*

*Almajiris are scholars, Open University VC declares*

*Senator Dino Melaye rocks the beat at Nottinghill Carnival*

*Oseloka Obaze wins Anambra PDP governorship ticket*

*Woman fakes own kidnap, demands N3m ransom from church members*

*Assassination claim: I don’t have killer squad, Kashamu tells police*

*Osinbajo to commission Edo fertiliser plant Today*

*US officials to meet Osinbajo, Saraki over Boko Haram*

*Police arrest man, 60, over rape of 10-year-old girl in Minna*

*New obas: Opponents trying to destabilise state, says Oyo APC*

*I’m no Neymar, insists Barca new boy Dembele*

*Court dissolves 41-year marriage over alleged blackmail*

*$565,000 green card scam: Court rejects application to soften American’s bail condition*

*Eid-el-Kabir: FG declares Friday, Monday public holidays*

*Ibadan court dissolves four-year marriage over barrenness, exploitation*

*Buhari sad over neglect of cocoa sector*

*Abdulkareem now new VC of Unilorin*

*Indian guru jailed 20 years, not 10 for rape ‘ Authorities*

*Marriage prevents death from heart disease ‘Experts*

*Buhari expresses happiness on state of economy*

*Lagos Court remands three over alleged kidnap of two Filipinos*

*Rights group battles South African court to recognise Muslim marriage*

*Boko Haram: 8-member US congressional delegation visit Nigeria*

*Food prices hit 8-yr high, as Buhari tasks economic team*

*Court orders final forfeiture of N7.6bn recovered from Diezani*

*Strike: FG, ASUU meet today*

*PANDEF/PNDPC face-off: NIDCA describes parties as ‘stomach activists*

*Anambra: Obaze trounces Oduah, Ubah to pick PDP ticket*

*PDP blasts FG over claims of N1.3trn projects*

*Boroh engages more amnesty delegates*

*Notice of quit: Igbo groups urge Arewa youths to assist Army in fighting Boko Haram*

*East-West road, a national shame’Bayelsa monarch*

*Students admitted without post-UTME did not meet Unilorin standard ‘ Mgt*

*Kashamu denies assassination accusation by Daniel*

*Agitations, kidnappings: Army unit in communication drill*

*Any policeman arrested for extortion’ll be dismissed ‘ Abia CP*

*Declare state of emergency on Education now, NANS tells FG*

*Accord Party chieftain lauds Makarfi’s reconciliation process*

*Lassa fever: 18 states record 82 deaths, 241 cases*

*Speakership: Edo Central monarchs to meet APC, Oshiomhole*

***BUSINESS:

*‘FG needs to enforce data domiciliation policy’*

*31 stocks tumble as week opens*

*Stanbic IBTC delays half-year results*

*Emefiele, Udoma, Adeosun brief Buhari on economy*

*CBN injects $250m into FX market*

*Customs intercept cars, rice, Indian hemp worth N531.4m*

*Naira sells at N367 per dollar*

*Naira maintains N367/dollar at parallel market*

*Customs officers dismissed over 661 rifles imported into Nigeria*

***SPORTS:

*Buhari congratulates D’Tigress on basketball victory*

*D’Tigress win confirms Nigeria’s Africa dominance — Coaches*

*Aboderin, Are commend Aminu over b’ball clinic*

*Buhari congratulates new Afrobasket champions*

*Paris 2017: Wrestlers return, set for C’wealth camp*

*Umar lauds D’Tigress, ready for reconciliation*

*NCC League: Team Civil Defence in first win*

*Oxlade-Chamberlain set for Chelsea move ‘ reports*

*Barca still chasing Coutinho despite Dembele capture*

*Dortmund sign Yarmolenko to replace Dembele*

*Liverpool agree club record deal for Leipzig midfielder, Naby Keita*

*Road to Russia 2018, CHAN 2018 hosting – is Kenya ready yet?*

***WORLD:

*Maiden Jollof Rice Festivals held in Washington, Lagos and Accra*

*’Oil is never going to be a curse, only exploiters wish that’ – Eq. Guinea’s president*

*South Sudan says refugees ran to Uganda due to ‘social media conspiracy’*

*Sudan had no choice but to support the revolt against Gaddafi: al Bashir*

*U.S. journalist among 19 killed in South Sudan clashes near Uganda border*

*Togolese opposition postpone march, demand release of protesters*

*$21m of ex-Nigerian oil minister seized, protesters demand her extradition*

*Kenya plastic ban causes boom in sale of old newspapers*

*S. Africa schoolgirls instigate protest for ‘skinny pants’ as part of uniform*

*Weak Shekau has fled from Sambisa forest: Ex-Boko Haram commander*

*Minister related to Gabon president resigns after 3 days in office*

*The African diaspora, its forgotten historical figures and Martin Luther King’s speech*

*Sheriff pardoned by Trump may run for US Senate*

*Police warn would-be looters to keep out of flooded Houston*

*Deadly hurricanes, tropical storms persist in Texas*

*Romanian police open fire on migrant cars*

*OSCE urges Trump to stop ‘attacks’ on media*

*Saudi Arabia to rake in over $4bn from holy pilgrimage*

*Catalan separatists to take border control if voters opt to separate in referendum*

*Cyclone looms off coast of western Africa ‘US National Hurricane Centre*

*Audio: Martin Luther King’s speech, ‘I have a dream,’ clocks 54*

*Good morning……

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