*Jonathan orders probe into battering of pregnant woman
*Banker arrested for withdrawing N50m from customers' accounts
*Shabby structures, dearth of teachers threaten basic education
*FCTA budgets N1.5bn for Mark, Tambuwal, others' official houses
*Presidency, APC clash over Obasanjo-Jonathan letters
*Obama signs two-year cross-party budget bill
*Senator urges Ogbomoso people to promote peace, devt
*Sanusi may quit CBN before June
*S'Sudan crisis: East Africa leaders hold emergency talks
*I'll defeat Fayemi in 2014 – Bamidele
*'Culture, important for national integration'
*N104bn spent on SURE-P projects in 18 months – FG
*Nigerian pilgrims in Israel miss families, friends
*Yuletide:Fun seekers throng event centres in Lagos
*FG winning war against terrorism, says Jonathan
National Mirror
*Operation zero-tolerance reduces auto crashes –FRSC
*Bishop asks North-East residents to pray for peace
*Yero celebrates with Christians
*Niger Assembly passes N98.5bn 2014 appropriation bill
*Chimamanda, renowned author, lauds Obi's developmental strides
*Owerri prison inmates plead for prerogative of mercy
*Apo killings: You can't testify in camera, NHRC tells SSS
*Let our budgets meet people's aspirations –Kaka
*Passengers stranded as Kenyan Airways, Lufthansa Airlines cancel flights
*NDLEA arrests clearing agents, trader over N352m drug
Guardian
*Mba doubtful for Super Eagles at 2014 CHAN, says team official
* Xmas in camp is price for World Cup ticket, says Falconets' captain
* Nigerian pilgrims visit holy sites in Galilee, Capernaum * I'm alive, says Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau * 'Why Nigeria must save Lake Chad now'
* APC faults Jonathan's reply to Obasanjo's letter
* Edo group carpets defecting governors, lawmakers * Stakeholders move to resolve crisis in NIMN
* PDP to boycott Yobe council poll
* Pilgrimage not business trip, Ogun tells pilgrims
Vanguard
*Controversy trails death of APC chieftain aide's wife in Lagos
*2013: JTF killed 82 sea pirates, nabbed 1,857 crude oil thieves in N-Delta —Commander
*CAN declares fasting, prayers today
*'Abia needs an airport to boost economy'
*Rivers factional Speaker denies plot to impeach Amaechi
*Calabar Carnival: Brand worth promoting – Imoke
*We're winning war against terrorism — presidency
*Emodi fetes widows, motherless babies @ Xmas
*I'll beat Fayemi in any election, boasts Opeyemi
*JUDEG faults Obasanjo on letter to Jonathan
Leadership
*Sultan Tasks Muslims, Christians Over Tolerance
*Jonathan Didn't Say Terrorism Has Come To Stay - Presidency
*We Lost 6 Soldiers To Pirates, Oil Thieves In N'Delta – JTF
*How I Averted Yoruba/ Fulani Clash - Emir Of Ilorin *FG Didn't Ban Fish Importation - Minister
*I Parted Ways With Jonathan For His Insincerity – Femi Fani-Kayode
*Jonathan's Government Most Corrupt In Country's-Blunt
Tribune
*N30bn 2014 irrigation projects: S/West short-changed •North -80% •SS/SE -18% •S/West -2%
*S/South leaders to OBJ: Stop intimidating Jonathan
*Jonathan's reply to OBJ's letter indecent —APC
*Security agencies on red alert
*PDP is dead in South-West —Former Secretary
*Media scaremongering worries presidency
*Nobody can turn Nigeria to a religious state —Sultan
*Blackout mars Xmas celebration in most part of Lagos
*FG introduces new fish importation policies Jan 2014 —Adesina
The Nation
*10 legal giants to defend governors' defection
to APC
*APC to Jonathan: exchange with Obasanjo is indecent
*CBN, Wema Bank object to debt recovery suit
*Jonathan-Obasanjo letter war, not a party affair, says PDP
*Police yet to vacate New PDP office
*Nigerians killed or jailed abroad in the year
*'Oil firms must adopt international best practices to tackle oil theft'
*Nyako: N2b inadequate for Northeast's security
*Fani-Kayode to APC stakeholders: unite for victory
*Blackout mars Christmas celebration in Lagos
*FCT celebrates crime-free Christmas, say police
*Osun'll rank among best in education, says Aregbesola
*CBN to retain $250,000 weekly sales to BDCs
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