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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, MONDAY, April 18, 2016


THISDAY
•Anti-Saraki Forces Mobilise Ex-Student Leaders for Protest march
•World Theatre Day: Thespian Family Theatre Honours Veterans
•Lagos Vows to Go Tough on Commercial Motorcyclits’ Restriction, Street Trading
•Pipeline Vandals Evade Arrest as Navy Storms Atlas Cove
•Order Military to Treat Fulani Herdsmen as Terrorists, HURIWA Challenges Buhari
•FCT Minister for Novare Gateway Mall’s Groundbreaking Ceremony Today
•Unidentified Cultists Shoot, Butcher Man in Lagos
•Atoki: All CPC Interventions are Backed by Law

DAILY SUN
•Fresh crisis looms in NASS
•Falana cautions Dogara, Reps against amendment of CCB, CCT Acts
•Igbo being provoked daily –Deputy Senate president
•Nigeria loses 250, 000 barrels of crude, gas to pipeline vandals daily –Osinbajo
•2 policemen, 4 others die in Bauchi auto crash
•No end in sight to fuel scarcity
•Angola overtakes Nigeria as Africa’s top oil producer
•Customs impounds N572m contraband

VANGUARD
•Drug tests for armed policemen
•Rep denies complicity in power outage during Saraki’s trial
•Weak macro-economy: Investors urged to seek asset diversification
•AGONY OF A BEREAVED HUSBAND: How my wife died at LUTH
•Police raid hotel, arrest 40 as female suspects accuse officers of sexual molestation
•I’m not interested in becoming PDP chairman — Bode George
•$2bn loan: Lagos lawyers chide Fayose over letter to Chinese govt
•Mobile payments records highest transaction of N6.5bn in March
•CCT amendment bill, ‘legislative rascality’, as SERAP drags Senate to UN
•Probe explosion at Agip’s oil field —Bayelsa community
•Buhari’s critics should have their heads examined —Oyegun
•We’re lucky to have Buhari at this time — Prof. Sagay

LEADERSHIP
•Time To Call Fayose To Order
•BBOG Seeks Effective System For Handling Rescued Citizens
•Group Calls For Removal Of CCT Chairman
•I Did Not Support CCB Amendment Bill – Sen Ibrahim
•Invest Recovered Funds In Job Creation, Workers Tell PMB
•APGA Integrity Group Denies Endorsing Ex-Gov Obi For Senate
•Thrills And Gains Of PMB’s Trip To China
•Sani Bello’s Wise Counsel

NATION
•U.S. agrees to give Nigeria $480m Abacha family loot
•Police await complainants as jobs scammers step up their games
•2016 Budget: Ogbeh, others discover ‘strange’ 386 projects in Agric ministry’s •votes CCB/CCT Act’s amendment: NLC, TMG, Falana slam Senate
•Pipeline security force to end vandalism underway
•Oladipo offers to return ‘Dasukigate funds’to stave off trial
•Panel on airport security backs MMA2 for regional operations
•Nigeria can realise N6.7tr yearly from VAT, says ANAN
•‘Finance central to SMEs growth’
•C/River, CFTZ agree on mutual cooperation
•UN seeks insurers role in climate change response
•NLNG in fresh bid to settle tax dispute with NIMASA

GUARDIAN
•CDHR faults Senate’s move to amend CCB, CCT act
•JAMB demotes, transfers workers over flawed 2016 UTME
•How budgets get altered in N’Assembly, by former lawmaker
•IMF, World Bank laud Nigeria's economic recovery plan, Adeosun affirms
•APC, lawyers carpet Fayose over move against Chinese loan
•Greece is on its way out of economic crisis, says envoy
•Troops kill 34 terrorists, rescue 455 hostages in Borno
•PDP zones chair to north, secretary to south
•Government must find Chibok girls, Ezekwesili insists

DAILY TRUST
•$2bn loan: Lawyers chide Fayose over letter to China
•Jigawa Immigration arrests 6 human trafficking victims
•FG urged to re-train teachers for quality education
•Diabetes, HIV patients require special attention from FG’
•Verified Bauchi workers to get February, March salaries
•Entrance Exams: 90,786 candidates jostle for 26,000 admission slots

NIGERIAN PILOT
•2019: Group urges PDP to adopt zoning or fail again
•Benue: Tsav rejects Ortom’s amnesty programme
•Sokoto, China enters pact to revolutionise agriculture
•Gunmen kill 2 PDP stalwarts, others in Rivers
•CCB/T law: Falana writes Dogara, wants Reps to stop amendment
•OPEC Meeting Stalemated :More Problems for Economy
•UK commits £32m in fight against Boko Haram
•Buhari didn’t take any loan from China – Adesina
•Rivers guber: Indicted INEC officials allegedly implicate Amaechi, Dakuku
•CCT: We’re ready to sacrifice Saraki – APC

THE AUTHORITY
•FCDA property: fake landlords collect rent from IDPsa.
•Evil forces frustrating Buhari’s efforts- Odigie-Oyegun,
•High hopes as Ikonne moves to re-invent ABSU.
•Power crisis: FG grants US firm license top generate 300mv.
•Nigeria didn’t take loan from China-

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