*NEWSPAPERS HEADLINES FOR WEDNESDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2021* *PUNCH* Nigeria, others unlikely to end AIDS by 2030 WHO CAN slams El-Rufais four-day working week, demands insecuritys solution Ogun saw operator arrested for pulling employers genital, attacking wife Compulsory vaccination: Workers demand March deadline, throng centres, FG insists on Dec 1 Rivers community panics as three die from illegal refinery fumes Umahi removes aides, suspends others over five consultants abduction NIJll be best communication finishing school, says Osoba NSSF unveils photography contest for youths Govt partners firms to reduce workplace accidents Lagos tackling unemployment with training Taking restructuring beyond ethnicity, political ambitions Ganduje-backed APC exco plans appeal against sacking Osun constituency bars members from contesting governorship against Oyetola Reps retain NIPOSTs powers over stamp duty in new amendment Mushroom growers seek inclusion in CBN programme, eye $45.3bn market Matawalle presents N160.2bn budget to Zamfara Assembly Dollar shortage: Foreign airlines stop ticket sale to Nigeria-bound travellers Retirees increase by 27%, collect N890bn from govts, private sector US hails Burger Kings expansion to Nigeria Dennis should be recall to Eagles ' Ex-stars Aruna eyes more success after Houston feat Messi deserves seventh Ballon d'Or ' Fashanu Joshua admits Usyk's loss weighs heavily on him Salernitana vs Juventus: Dybala, Morata score in Juve's 2-0 win Eagles relieved to have Okoye for AFCON 'Agu Ranieri backs Troost-Ekong after Leicester blunder Butler hails Vincent's improvement England vs Latvia: Ellen White breaks record as England thrash Latvia 20-0 in World Cup qualifying FIFA staging Club World Cup during AFCON disrespectful -Mido 70% Nigerians get healthcare from private sector, says SFH Lagos NGO exploits sick children, women for alms begging, victims rescued NDLEA destroys N50bn drugs, arrests 10,355 traffickers UNILORIN students murder: Court dismisses suspects claim of forced statements Hotel lodger stabs food sellers stomach, nose over N400 CRiver guard betrays overseas-based employer, attempts selling N3m car for N350,000 Gunmen in police uniform invade Osun microfinance bank, loot ATM Ex-convict impersonates UNILORIN DSA, defrauds students, jailed 28 years Ondo civil servant bags seven-year imprisonment for stealing N7m Court summons Imo AG over child trafficking case Lagos bag repairer jailed for life for defiling 12-year-old pupil Female student, mother hire hoodlums, assault teachers, parents Boat accident claims over 40 lives in Kano Data protection constitutional in Nigeria Pantami The street is not smiling Electoral Act Amendment: Much ado about party primaries NAFDAC recovers N639.5m administrative charges from stakeholders Implementing effective vaccines strategy, bedrock to taming COVID-19 Scientists must support govt to contain epidemics Expert Lagos rejects panels casualty figure, says one killed in Lekki Illegal recruitment: Buhari vows sanctions, ICPC indicts Ngige ministry, others Petrol may sell above N340/litre, marketers plan imports amidst forex crisis Sanusis banishment to Nasarawa community illegal, unconstitutional Court 300,000 children newly infected with HIV in 2020 UNICEF EndSARS report: Lagos accepts 11 of 32 recommendations, rejects one BBNaija star, Jaypaul, suffers health issue, takes break from physical activities *VANGUARD* Amend TETFUND Act to accommodate private varsities, VC urges NASS Police rescue 3 kidnapped victims; recover 3 AK-47 rifles in Zamfara NYSC inducts 1,711 corps members in Abia Killings of 5 construction workers: Umahi suspends civil servants from crisis community in Ebonyi Organisation releases 'Focused Girl' Song Troops foil attempted kidnap of medical personnel in Imo Lafenwa Inferno: Aderinokun sympathises with victims of 'horrific tragedy Opinion: The Power Equation of Violence [#EndSARS] White Paper: Lagos accepts 11 of 34 recommendations by Judicial Panel of Inquiry [BREAKING] #ENDSARS: Lagos govt releases White Papers, flays Judicial Panel of Inquiry reports on Lekki massacre Nigeria, Chad to partner on power interconnection 'Buhari's minister Alleged N4.6billion Money laundering: Court asks Fani-Kayode to pay N200,000 for absenteeism Stop intimidating, harassing innocent citizens ' CP warns Police officers Insecurity: Gov Akeredolu orders closure of Ore nightclub BREAKING: Again, Fani-Kayode leaves EFCC's custody Zulum presents N267.921 Billion 2022 Appropriation Budget to Borno Assembly Pantami seeks global action against Cybersecurity Kidnappers haven't relocated to Kwara ' CP carpets Gani Adams Tackling our medical brain drain Kano APC Crisis: Court judgement affects only ward congresses ' Commissioner Real Igbo leaders working behind the scene, Nnamdi Kanu's family blasts Orji Kalu Reps pass bill to establish Nigeria Postal Commission Customs amendment bill scales 2nd reading in House of Reps Tek Experts powers African tech growth with 1800 engineers in Nigerian operations Binance expands Crypto scope in Nigeria Cloud energy green promo unveils spread payment plan for solar products Apple awards Wizkid as African music artist of the year The lot of the chosen ones Lead with fear of God, Muoka urges Nigerian leaders Of telecoms shutdown, truth and reviews Naira Marley's trial stalled due to witness absence Opinion: Nigeria and the politics of the political solution Health is not just the absence of illness Awo's legacy still lives on (5) Health is not just absence of illness COVID-19 vaccines administered to Nigerians safe, efficacious ' Nigerian researchers Pfizer Foundation donates $6.4m to combat diseases in West Africa Infectious disease experts fault FG's mandatory vaccination Effective family planning, panacea to tackling mother-to-child HIV infection Ramp up Covid-19 vaccines stock, consider implementation of booster doses, NIDS task FG Troops foil attempted kidnap of medical personnel in Imo Boat Mishap: 5 feared dead, six rescued in Kano Men wearing police uniform attack bank in Osun White paper on EndSARS panel report will be released today, says Sanwo-Olu Man, 26, remanded for allegedly defiling 4-year-old girl Gateman attempts to sell employer's car worth N3m for N350k in Calabar NDLEA secures conviction for 35 drug dealers in Akwa Ibom *THISDAY* MPC as Enabler for Sustained Recovery Dealing with Unemployment Challenge WAICA-Re Poised to Fight against Effects of Climatic Change Stock Market Close Lower on Profit-Taking by Investors Obasekis Regeneration Project Gets Boost as Edo Cultivates 50, 000-hectare Oil Palm Plantation Illiquidity: Banks Borrowing from CBN Rises by 315% to N24.53trn in 11 Months Impressive Corporate Earnings Lifts NGX Investors Gain by N629bn In November Polaris Bank wins Digital Bank of the Year Award Wema Bank Reaffirms Commitment to Environmental Sustainability CBN Discontinues Manual Processing for Non-commercial Exports Overtaxing a Diminishing Workforce, Strangulated Economy Ogun Restates Commitment to Partnerships as Unilever, Lafarge Donate 80-bed Isolation Centre NGX Holds Inaugural Capital Markets Conference Young Nigerian Receives Africas Business Heroes Prize by Chinese Billionaire Jack Ma Between Yahaya and Goje, No Retreat, No Surrender Kayode Adaramodu and the Road to Ekiti 2022 State Judicial Panels can Indict Military and Police Officers 30 Years in Defence of Relevant Art NFF Please Dont Cost Nigeria a World Cup Ticket Mancini Emerges as Candidate for Man Utd Job College of Commerce Retains Zenith/Delta Principals Cup SWAN Honours Okowa with Merit Award Quadri Aruna Achieves All-time Highest ITTF Ranking by an African Ranieri Backs Troost-Ekong to Recover from Blunder at Leicester Messi Wins Seventh Ballon dOr *THE SUN* I wont run APC as cabal Chairmanship aspirant Mustapha Saliu FG to strengthen framework for concessions, PPPs by 2022 MTN targets over 2m shareholding base in Nigeria with public offer Polaris Bank wins Digital Bank of the Year award Agrawal, Indian-born engineer, named Twitter CEO Why Nigeria ditched global deal to reallocate $125bn tax profits FIRS Borrowing helped Nigeria recover from economic shocks DMO Iyayi gives tips on how to fast track industrialisation of Nigeria COVID-19: Omicron variant restrictions not affecting flight ticket sales Travel agents Food security: Were committed to tackling fake seeds NASC Economy: Delta struggles to meet salary obligations Electricity: Delta partners firm to provide 8.5MW for Asaba Twitter bans sharing images, videos of private individuals without consent Ugwuanyi boosts knowledge-based public service Sales of FG property: Malami sets up probe panel Ogun: Why we closed 12 secondary schools Commissioner Anglican bishop demands quick remedial actions on insecurity, poverty 2021 budget: ICPC uncovers 257 phony projects worth N20bn Lagos govts White Paper faults EndSARS Panel Report, identifies many loopholes Senators clash over lopsided Army recruitment Police officer, FRSC special marshal killed in Ekiti bank robbery Education in times of conflict: Nigerias experience *GUARDIAN* Lagos budget 2022: Fixing aftermaths of COVID-19, #EndSARS How I championed the scuttling of Obasanjo's elongation plan ' Senator Ben Obi Stakeholders, groups seek end of police brutality, extortion in South East Ebonyi governor suspends salaries of civil servants over killings Wike in court, testifies against national daily in N7b libel suit Police nab 32 suspected kidnappers, armed robbers in Abuja Residents lament state of roads, waste disposal system in Lugbe, Abuja Omicron: Okowa urges Nigerians to embrace vaccination Group condemns FCT administration's failure to pay teachers' entitlements One injured, five shops burnt over boundary disagreement in Rivers Three students killed in US high school shooting IPOB's prayer rally paralyses businesses in Anambra College of Commerce defeats Osadennis, retains Zenith Bank/Delta Principals' Cup Foreign scouts set to discover stars in Nigerian league FIBA moves NBBF Electoral Congress' deadline to January 30 SWAN honours Okowa with merit award Asoju Oba Cup serves off today at Teslim Balogun Stadium Aruna sets record, now 13th in latest ITTF ranking Stakeholders fault Customs on delay in installation of scanners Nigeria targets 70% retention of $20.4bn spent on oil, gas projects Ogun to leverage tax credit system to fix industrial access roads Negotiations on textiles, automobiles stalling Nigeria's rules of origin Stakeholders urge fintechs to explore funding at NGX NLPGA, others seek end to cooking gas pricing, value-chain crisis MTN seeks N97b from 575m ordinary shares on sale today Adalikwu assures of clean marine environment Corruption cases on foreign vessels reduced to 51 in two years Rep member seeks review of port operation laws Telephone density rebounds as regulator seeks dialogue on sector's challenges Tek Experts sees potential in Nigeria, powers tech support in Africa NCS names Zinox Technology Company of the year Nigeria gets new 10MW data centre, as region eyes $500m investments TECNO wins Innovative Smartphone Brand of The Year at Nigeria Tech Innovation & Telecoms Awards 2021 Fuel subsidy removal and concept of change Sale of FG property: Malami sets up probe panel U.S. removal of Nigeria from religious freedom blacklist is outrageous Illegal military outfits and worsening insecurity US policy shift and CAN's politics of illogic A toast to Tony Elumelu, the quintessential pan-africanist Open secret Virtue of taking risks and delaying gratifications Is banking an endangered species' - Part 2 Subsidy removal won't spike inflation, says World Bank Norwich deny 10-man Newcastle first win of the season World AIDS Day:'1.9m Nigerians living with HIV, infection rates not decreasing fast enough No deaths at Lekki Toll Gate, says Lagos government in #EndSARS White Paper NMMP's delay pushes burden of metering on consumers You lied, 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Of Passports In Missions Abroad #ENDSARS: Lagos Releases White Paper, Debunks Lekki Killings Uneasy Calm In Kano As Court Nullifies Former Emir Sanusi's Banishment 2021 Budget Padded With 257 Projects Worth N20.138bn ' ICPC Obaseki Commissions Cashew Processing Facility In Edo Govt White Paper Rubbishes Lagos #EndSARS Panel Report On Lekki Killings Students In 7 States To Benefit From FCMB Financial Literacy Training *NEW TELEGRAPH* Newspapers and self-regulation JUST IN: LASG Rejects Recommendation Of #EndSARS Panel Bank robbery claims two in Ekiti #EndSARS: Lagos deserves true healing, says Sanwo-Olu, invites Falz, Macaroni, Seun Kuti, others for 'Peace Walk DAAR Communications Awards: Oyetola is 'Outstanding Leader In Governance JUST IN: Court declares deposed Kano Emir Sanusi's banishment unlawful JUST IN: 15-year-old kills 3 high school students, injures 6 others in US shooting Buhari vows to punish corrupt officials, sanction MDAs for presenting new projects as ongoing 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