Below are the headlines found on The Punch Online Newspaper for today, Tuesday, 22 August, 2017.

Now that Buhari is back
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
President Muhammadu Buhari returned to Nigeria 103 days after he departed on yet another sick leave to attend to a still undisclosed illness. He returned to a country that is riven by mutual suspicion along ethnic and sectarian lines, deepening insecurity and an economy in recession, and with neither a firm direction nor a steady []
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PDP restates efforts to reconcile with OBJ, Atiku, others
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Godwin Isenyo, Kaduna The Caretaker Committee Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Senator Ahmed Makarfi, said on Monday the process of reconciling aggrieved foundation members of the party, including ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo; ex-Vice-President Atiku Abubakar; Senate President, Bukola Saraki; and other chieftains of the party, who defected to other parties, was in progress. The former []
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APC moves to reconcile Kogi gov, Melaye
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, on Monday in Abuja, inaugurated a seven-member reconciliation committee for the party's Kogi State chapter at the APC National Secretariat. The seven-member committee, which is chaired by Gen. Idris Garba(retd.), also has as members, Chief Don Etiebet, Patricia Etteh; Group Capt. []
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No zoning of Anambra gov ticket 'APC
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Olusola Fabiyi, Abuja The national leadership of the All Progressives Congress has said that the party's ticket for the November 18 governorship election in Anambra State is open to all aspirants. It said there was no truth in the rumour that the position had been zoned to a section of the state. Spokesperson for the []
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Akwa Ibom boosts infrastructure to attract local, foreign investors
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Stanley Opara The Akwa Ibon State Government says it is developing infrastructural capacity across board to attract meaningful local and foreign investments into the state. Over 50 foreign investors, it said, had expressed interest to set up businesses in the state through its Foreign Direct Investment road show. The state, in a document, stressed that []
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Bielderman resigns as NAHCO CEO
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc has announced the resignation of the company's Chief Executive Officer, Norbert Bielderman. This was contained in a letter by the company to the Nigerian Stock Exchange on Monday signed by the Company Secretary, Bello Abdullahi. The letter read in part, 'This is to inform the Nigerian Stock Exchange and the []
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Allocate 40% of budget to infrastructure, groups urge FG
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Ifeanyi Onuba, Abuja The Federal Government has been urged to allocate 40 per cent of the 2018 budget to capital projects in order to boost development in critical sectors of the economy. The Centre for Social Justice and the United States Agency for International Development stated this in a report on the Health Sector Medium-Term []
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Dangote to engage Nigerian vendors in building refinery
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Femi Asu The Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board, on Monday, said the management of Dangote refinery had agreed to select competent Nigerian vendors that would participate in the construction of the plant from the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry Joint Qualification System. The NOGICJQS, which is the database of available capacities in the nation's []
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NIMASA expresses concerns about carbon emissions from ships
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Anna Okon The Nigerian Maritime Administration and Safety Agency has raised concerns about carbon emissions from ships and other sources in the maritime sector and has convened a forum to tackle the issue. This is in line with the global initiative to combat climate change through reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Speaking at a one-day []
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Mass promotion, redeployment in aviation agencies
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Okechukwu Nnodim, Abuja The Federal Government on Monday approved a backlog of promotion in agencies under the aviation arm of the Federal Ministry of Transportation. The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, said the move was part of efforts to reposition the aviation agencies, with the belief that a well-motivated workforce would result in []
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FIRS moves to combat tax evasion
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
The Federal Inland Revenue Service has signed two major multilateral instruments, joining 71 other countries to combat tax evasion. These are the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting and the Common Reporting Standard Multilateral Competent Authority Agreement. The Executive Chairman, FIRS, Mr. Tunde Fowler, signed the []
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TBC: Sembic clarifies link with Jumia, Konga
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
A leading marketing support services company, Sembic International Limited, has clarified its relationship with Jumia and Konga with regards to the acceptance of the cryptocurrency called The Billion Coin in Nigeria. The company said it was only signed up with the e-commerce companies as an Independent Sales Agent, contrary to a recent media report that []
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Sterling Bank chairman assures workers of good work environment
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
The Chairman, Sterling Bank Plc, Mr. Asue Ighodalo, has reiterated the bank's commitment to providing its employees with the best possible working environment. He made this disclosure during an inspection of the bank's new head office annex located along Ikorodu road in Lagos, the lender said in a statement on Monday. The new annex is []
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Govt agencies remitted N687.82bn operating surplus in nine years
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Everest Amaefule, Abuja Agencies of the Federal Government have remitted a total of N687.82bn to the Consolidated Revenue Fund in nine years, the Fiscal Responsibility Commission has said in a report. It stated in the report obtained by our correspondent on Monday that the amount was remitted as operating surplus between 2007 and 2015. The []
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CBN boosts FX market with $195m
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
The Central Bank of Nigeria on Monday offered $195m in three segments of the Foreign Exchange Market to boost liquidity in the operation. The CBN's Acting Director, Corporate Communications Department, Mr Isaac Okorafor, in a statement in Abuja said that in the wholesale segment of the Interbank Foreign Exchange market, it auctioned $100m and also []
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England coach racially abused me ' Aluko
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Footballer Eniola Aluko has spoken publicly for the first time about the bullying and discrimination she says she was subjected to by England head coach Mark Sampson. In her first broadcast interview since details of the controversy emerged earlier this month, the Chelsea Ladies striker ' who has 102 caps and scored 33 goals for []
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Nigerian wrestlers stranded in Lagos
Tue, 22 Aug 2017
Idris Adesina Three of Nigeria's six wrestlers for the 2017 World Wrestling Championships were still in Lagos on Monday when the competition officially opened in Paris, France, after Air Maroc, which was scheduled to fly them, cancelled its trip. Nigeria would be represented at the competition by six wrestlers and two coaches. The team were []
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