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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, Wednesday, February 10, 2016


THE AUTHORITY
•Cabal plotting Kachukwu’s sack from NNPC—Investigation
•Police/doctors’ clash: All hospitals shot
•Boko Haram: Security beefed up in Aso Rock
•2016 Budget full of errors, over-bloated figures—Senate
•Senate rejects 200million naira allocation for PIB
•INEC disqualifies PDP from Anambra Senatorial rerun

NIGERIAN PILOT
•Catholics begin Lenten season today with Ash Wednesday
•Hardship looms...as NASS suspends passage of 2016 Budget indefinitely
•FG to recruit 50,000 teachers, put annual salaries at 240billion naira
•Boko Haram: Shekau may have been replaced, says Buhari
•Probe panel report preconceived to ridicule me—Suswam
•19.9 million Nigerian women have suffered genital mutilation--UNICEF

NATION
•DSS arrests three over bid to rob TSA of N4.5b cash
•Court jails two for attempt to smuggle $5.5m out of Nigeria
•Airports, airports everywhere… but few viable
•10 pro-Biafra protesters ‘die’ in Aba
•$2.1b arms deals: EFCC searches ex-CDS Badeh’s house
•Peterside: Wike knew about Supreme Court judgment
•Presidency tightens security against terror attack on Villa

VANGUARD
•Budget 2016 full of errors, can’t be passed – NASS
•Saraki won’t resign unless convicted, says Senate Leader
•Electricity tariff: 45% increase’ll violate UN ruling —SERAP
•Yoruba Obas: I stand by my ranking — Alake
Ooni’s guard shot dead
•Catholic Bishop slams Igbo over ‘unbridled’ quest for money
•Nigerians spend $2bn on school fees abroad

LEADERSHIP
•Wike Met Supreme Court Justices Before Rivers Election Verdict – Peterside
•TSA: CBN Unveils Operational Guidelines For States
•2016 Budget Runs Into Troubled Waters
•Goodluck Jonathan Way Deserted By Motorists
•N400m Fraud: EFCC Closes Case Against Olisa Metuh
•DSS Nabs ISIS Recruiter, Converts Heading To Libya
•PDP Will Produce 2019 Gov In Akwa Ibom, Says Akpabio
•DSS Raids Jonathan’s Associate, AJ Turner’s Residence
•Kwali Chairman Urges Residents To Keep Environment Clean

PUNCH
•Budget: FG admits errors, threatens sanctions against perpetrators
•Lagos-Ibadan Expressway ready in 24 months –Fashola
•Metuh bought N500m house, gave Kema Chikwe N5m – Witness
•Alleged bribe: Otedola to testify against Farouk Lawan
•Arms scam: EFCC arrests military chief at airport
•Gunmen kill Ooni’s security officer
•EFCC arraigns Saraki’s cousin, ex-commissioner for N371m scam
•Arakangudu dies, for burial Wednesday

THIS DAY
•Sleaze in Amnesty Office's N48bn Expenditure in Five Months Exposed
•Citing Controversies, N'Assembly Postpones Passage of Budget Indefinitely
•Buhari Never Called Nigerians 'Criminals', Presidency Clarifies
•Gunmen Massacre 50 in Zamfara
•Osinbajo: Half a Trillion Naira Social •Investment Allocation in 2016 Budget Unprecedented
•Boko Haram: N’Assembly on the Same Page with Executive, Says Ndume

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