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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, Thursday, March 17, 2016


LEADERSHIP
•NASS passes 2016 Budget Tuesday
Adopts Appropriation Committee’s Report today
•Regulatory services ban on MTN unconnected to 780billion naira fine
•NNPC to AGF: We owe FAAC 362billion naira not 3.2trillion naira
•Final end of Boko Haram in sight---PMB
•Osinbajo, CJN, Others eulogise Ocholi as burial rights begin

THE AUTHORITY
•Ifesinachi’s abduction: Our lives are in danger, mother cries out
•Begs South-east governors, IGP, others to rescue daughter
•Biafra: Soldiers seize newspapers, magazines in Aba
•Judiciary messing up Nigeria’s elections---INEC
•Alleged 3.3trillion naira fraud: NNPC faults Auditor-General’s report
•Mikel will spearhead Egypt’s defeat—Utaka
•PDP has put its house in order---Sheriff

DAILY SUN
•As Boko Haram kills 24 in Borno Mosque...
Blood and tears.....troops recover armoured tank from insurgents
•Saraki: FG may drop charges on foreign accounts
•How Badeh diverted 558million naira Air Force monthly pay
•Tension in Jos over varsity student’s death
•Pension fraud: PTAD, DG suspended, accused of collecting 50million niara salary, allowances

NATION
•Lawmakers set to remove N37b items from budget
•‘Badeh diverted N558m monthly as COAS’
•Amosun wades into Alake, Awujale feud
•Dignitaries pay tributes as Ocholi begins final journey
•N3.1b probe: Confusion in Jonathan’s camp
•Suicide bombers kill 24 in Borno
•Buhari, EU, Buratai condemn attacks
•Budget now to be passed on Tuesday
•N7.96b subsidy claim under reconciliation, says NNPC

PUNCH
•N3bn fraud: ICPC freezes SURE-P directors’ accounts, seizes vehicles
•Truck kills 10 passengers on Lagos- Ibadan Expressway
•Power generation drops by 759MW in 24 hours
•EFCC seeks INTERPOL’s help to arrest Adoke, others
•National Assembly committee detects fresh errors in 2016 budget
•Odumakin files N1bn libel suit against APC spokesman
•Female suicide bombers kill 23 in Borno mosque
•We owe Federation Account N326bn, not N3.23tn —NNPC
•FG targets 4,000MW from nuclear energy
•Teenager jailed for defrauding American of $40m
•Senate to sanction contractors of abandoned NDDC projects

VANGUARD
•Rivers violence: Fayose, Rep, wike flay Buhari
•Alleged N3.9bn fraud: Badeh took N558.2m from NAF monthly – Witness
•How twin suicide bombers killed 22 worshipers at Borno mosque
•$2.1bN cash: Return home or be humiliated, EFCC warns fleeing corrupt ex-officials
•Revenue from non-oil exports down by 58% to $4.3bn — CBN
•FG empowers SON to jail substandard product dealers for 10yrs
•No to school girls kidnap
•Panic in Kaduna as El-Rufai moves to implement ‘demolition law’
•Unending furore over JAMB’s CB tests
•LICENCE FOR PREACHERS: PFN asks President to caution El-Rufai

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