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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 2015


PUNCH
•Court sends Metuh to prison till Tuesday
•Try ex-military chiefs for war crimes, Northern groups tell Buhari
•Obasanjo lambasts Biafran agitators
•Fresh arms scandal: 18 Generals to appear before EFCC Monday
•Our budget not sufficient to fight corruption –ICPC
•Poor teacher quality killing Nigerian public schools –Ezekwesili
•Jonathan wins award, vows to work for Nigeria
•S’Court affirms Benue gov, Ortom’s election
•Buhari challenges military to rescue Chibok girls
•Arms scandal: Aregbesola seeks heavy punishment for looters
•Oshiomhole urges FG to pardon 66 convicted soldiers
•Boko Haram hides explosives inside vegetables —Army
•Customs order officers to declare assets within 14 days

THIS DAY
•$2.1 Billion Arms Procurement Deal: Blame Not Yakassai, Blame the System
•Abia Guber: Ngwa United Alliance USA Flays Appeal Court Decision
•Dasukigate: Still Waiting for Buhari to Return SUVs Received
•Armsgate: Truly, The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born
•Abia: Why Appeal Court’s Sham Won’t Stand
•Is Anenih Paying the Price for Loyalty?
•Still on Abia Appeal Court Ruling
•The Supreme Court Can Save Our Judiciary
•Akwa Ibom: Legal Consequences of Delegated Desires
•Dickson’s Victory is Rewards for Altruism
•Now that the CJN Has Spoken!
•Nigeria: Of Missing Budget and other Tales by Moonlight
•INEC Registers Over 21,000 New Voters in Abuja

NATION
•Order to arrest Tompolo: Residents flee as armed youths blow up oil facilities in Niger Delta
•Lassa fever hits Lagos
•Oshiomhole: How Jonathan threatened to cage me
•Biafran agitation borne out of ignorance, frustration — Obasanjo
•Arms deal: Tension as Buhari orders probe of ex-CDS Badeh, two Air Chiefs, 15 others
•Tinubu refutes alleged comment on Buhari, defecting PDP members
•Army kills 14 Boko Haram members as sect attacks military base in Yobe
•1966 coup altered Nigeria’s history,says Obasanjo
•Northern governors vow to reposition North •Call for Buhari’s impeachment: We won’t succumb to blackmail, APC replies PDP
•FG clarifies N5,000 unemployment stipend
•Family, friends bid Femi Adesina’s sister, Prof. Ogunleye, farewell
•••come join me to develop Benue, governor tells opponent after victory
•Supreme Court upholds Ortom’s election
•Dasuki is not to blame
•Court sends Olisa Metuh to Kuje Prison

VANGUARD
•Biafra: IPOB threatens to resume protest over sick Kanu
•Work towards nation’s unity, Ambode urges Nigerians
•DSS operatives murdered as US citizen petitions Buhari, Saraki
•Goodnight to House of Reps’ first Clerk ( 1930-2015) Mark Columbus Orgu
•Governor Dairus Ishaku versus Aisha Al-Hassan: For peace to reign in Taraba
•Is Anenih paying the price for loyalty?
•Why PDP must not die
•Lassa fever outbreak: Residents in affected states remain indifferent
•From bats to rats as Lassa takes off where Ebola stoped
•Mutiny: Oshiomhole begs for 66 soldiers
•Anambra Central: I want to get APC ticket on merit – Ekwunife
•Bombshell: Biafra’s dead, Obasanjo insists
•Internet fraudster confesses to using ‘Vanguard Media logo’
•Femi Solar denies rift with Yinka Ayefele
•Tears as Keshi’s wife is buried in Benin
Militants bombing of gas pipeline is sabotage — Naval Chief
•Ezekwesili, Falana, challenge lawyers, others on corruption, standard of education

NIGERIAN PILOT
•Terrorists now hide bombs in vegetables – DHQ
•Wike swears-in new Ag Chief Judge
•DasukiGate: Court sends Metuh to Kuje prison
•FUTA institutes prizes to honour Bisi Akande
•Edo woman to be extradited to UK for money laundering
•Ugwuanyi wants collective rally for families of fallen heroes
•IGP wants sanity checks on police officers bearing firearms
•Zamfara commits N100bn to road construction in 4yrs
•Exposed: 2016 budget doctored in Abuja hotel
•Bayelsa polls: Card readers failed in many units – Foreign observers
•Ex-militants bomb Escravos gas pipeline in Delta

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