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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, Wednesday, February 03, 2016


NEW TELEGRAPH
•$2billion Arms Scandal: Panel verifies weapons, equipment purchased
...visits military formations for physical assessment
•Ex-CDS Badeh appears before EFCC today....Dasuki trial stalled again
•Biafra agitators threaten to blow up seized ship, kill crew
•Awojale attacks Obasanjo over Ijebu-State
Cameroun fight Boko Haram with witchcraft
•FIRS targets 4.95trillion revenue
•Stress in teenagers could lead to hypertension—Study

DAILY SUN
•Shocking Revelation in NIMASA Fraud Case: I got 905million naira for doing nothing—Witness
•Re-Run Polls: INEC disqualifies APGA in Abia, PDP in Anambra...clears Kalu, Umeh Abe, Sekibo
•No going back on new electricity tariff—FG
•Two robbers meet waterloo
•Amaechi slams Jonathan’s railways reforms
•PDP Chair: North-east meeting ends in stalemate
•Guber Polls: Supreme Court Affirms Okowa, Ajimobi, Gaidam’s elections

LEADERSHIP
•FG To NASS: You Can’t Stop Hike In Electricity Tariff
•Nigeria ends Oil Swap deal in March
•Best Era Of Development In Petroleum Sector Under Obasanjo – PMB
•CBN Plans Forex Intervention For Banks
•Dasukigate: Badeh Reports To EFCC Today •As ICC Confirms Receipt Of Falana’s Petition
ICPC Re-opens $650,000 Subsidy Case Against Lawan
•Report On State House Clinic, False – Presidency
•Soldiers Kill 100 Insurgents, Rescue 1200 Captives In Borno
•Boko Haram: BBOG Group Raises The Alarm •Over New Ways Of Attack

GUARDIAN
•Mosquito-transmitted Zika virus may spread to Nigeria
•Nigerians divided over World Bank, AfDB loan
•Govt cancels import waiver
•Crude oil prices slide as hopes of production cut dim
•Buhari decries decay of public facilities
•We are all guilty...since 1999, Saraki replies Obasanjo
•Panic as blast in Benin destroys houses

NATION
•$2.1b arms deals: EFCC invites ex-CDS Badeh
•We got N905.8m for no contracts, says witnes
•How Dariye shared Plateau’s N1.162b, court told
•Southwest UTME candidates protest
•How we rigged Ekiti polls with $35m, by Aluko
•Air Force drone hits Boko Haram’s base in Sambisa
•Power generation ‘ll increase to 2,000Mw, says Fashola
•PenCom recovers N10b pension contribution

VANGUARD
•Buhari’s incessant foreign trips crippling economy — FAYOSE
•What you need to know about Zika virus
•Arms probe: Falana’s petition against Dasuki, Okonjo-Iweala arrives ICC
•Money laundering: EFCC recovers looted $2trn in 12 years
•No subsidy paid in January— Kachikwu
•Boko Haram fear spreads as explosion rocks Benin
•BIAFRA: IPOB, MASSOB deny alleged seizure of merchant ship by members
•Okowa urged not to scrap Oleh campus of DELSU
•Rail probe: I signed agreements not contracts – Ex-NRC boss

PUNCH
•Ex-NAF chief, Amosu, refuses EFCC’s offer to return funds
•We’ll treat pro-Biafran ship hijackers as criminals – Military
•Leaders from 1999 responsible for nation’s woes
•Presidency threatens to punish officials for information leakage.
•$2.1bn scam: Dasuki asks court to discharge him
•Buhari laments declining fortunes of oil sector
•$620,000 scam: Lawan’s ‘accomplice’ now ICPC witness
•‘EFCC recovered $2tn from looters in 12 years’
•INEC shifts Rivers rerun to March 19
•Reps grill Amaechi, Sijuwade on N1tn railway contracts

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