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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, Tuesday, April 12, 2016


DAILY SUN
•Budget: Senate demands Amaechi’s resignation, declares....Apologise or quit
•Lawmakers: Minister tried to alter proposal during defence
•Baraje threatens to dump APC
•FG to stop Dasuki’s suit at ECOWAS Court
•Nigeria would’ve collapsed if APC didn’t come to power—Onu
•Biafra: IPOB dares DSS to prove allegation
•FIFA serves Nigeria ban notice

LEADERSHIP
•Lagos-Calabar Rail Project in Budget, Ministry insists.....Project was not--NASS
•Scarcity: Oil Sector problem can’t be resolved overnight—Maitama Sule
...says Nigeria can’t blame Buhari, Kachikwu for scarcity
•Non-oil revenue to rise by 89 percent—PMB
•NLC insists on Reversal of Electricity Tariff
•Oil price rises ahead of output freeze meeting in Qatar
•Education endangered in Nigeria—Ezekwesili
•How Lamido, others defrauded Jigawa—EFCC witness

THE AUTHORITY
•2016 Budget Controversy: Amaechi introduced Lagos-Calabar rail project—NASS
...We didn’t reject NASS budget, says Presidency
•Buhari lacks constitutional powers to delay budget signing—PDP Senator
•DSS/IPOB Saga: Kidnappers killed Fulani herdsmen—Ikpeazu, Okoroacha
•Exposed: How convicts pay others to serve sentences
•Enugu Investment summit... Oganiru: Beyond Oil...
•NFF Crisis: FIFA backs Pinnick, threatens to sanction Nigeria
•Chibok girls will be rescued alive, says Shettima
•Tompolo files fresh case against FG

NIGERIAN PILOT
•2016 Budget saga: Enough is Enough, Senate warns Presidency
•Reps accuse Amaechi of constitutional breach on Lagos-Calabar rail line
Insists 2016 Budget did not capture rail project
•#‎PanamaPapers‬: British parliament drills Cameron
•Fuel Scarcity: Mega marketers threaten to expose saboteurs

NATION
•Senators to Buhari: enough is enough on budget row
•China/Nigeria Business Forum meeting opens
•Shiite/Army clash: 347 bodies buried
•‘Jonathan paid Metuh for image laundering job’
•ECOWAS court to hear Dasuki’s suit
•Lawmakers disagree over details as ministry defends Amaechi
•Fuel scarcity, power crisis: Deregulation and the social goods theory
•Budget 2016: Saboteurs within?
•Buhari in China
•Fuel scarcity mars schools’ resumption

VANGUARD
•Senate gives Buhari final warning over budget 2016
•Small businesses groan as power, fuel crises defy solution
•NNPC loses N14.02bn to pipeline repairs in February
•Abia shallow grave: Ikpeazu, Okorocha condemn killing of Fulani, Igbo by kidnappers in Abia
•$2.1bn arms probe: We’ve jurisdiction to hear Dasuki’s suit, ECOWAS court tells FG
•Borno now free of terror —Governor Shettima
•Alleged N400m fraud: Jonathan asked Metuh to submit his company’s account —Witness
•Warrant of arrest: Tompolo challenges Criminal Justice sections

THISDAY
•Despite Pressure to Shelve Strike, NLC Insists on Protest
•Oil Hits Four-month High on Commodities Rally
•Calabar-Lagos Rail Project that Was Never Listed, Triggers A Spat
•Missing Chibok Schoolgirl Calls Her Father
•Pirates Abduct Six Turkish Crew off Nigeria
•Dasuki Floors FG as ECOWAS Court Assumes Jurisdiction in His Case
•Customs Loses N230bn Revenue to CBN’s Forex Ban on 41 Items
•ASUU Accuses Buhari, APC of Running a Change Govt without Transformation
•UNIPORT Shut down, Final Year Student Feared Dead in Rampage

GUARDIAN
•How Jonathan paid N400m into Metuh’s corporate account, by witness
•National Assembly pads CCB’s budget by over N4 billion
•ECOWAS Court rules in favour of Dasuki over illegal detention by government
•Kaduna SSG tells panel how 347 bodies got mass burial
•Scores killed in Taraba, as Fulani Herdsmen attack villages
•500,000 apply for 10,000 police jobs in 12 days
•Kalu’s trial over diversion of N5.6b begins May 16
•FIFA writes NFF on Jos ruling, threatens to sanction Nigeria

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