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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, Monday, May 16, 2016


BLUE PRINT
•Fuel price hike: FG, labour meet today over strike threat
•....Reps summon Kachikwu
•EFCC will probe Jonathan if....---Magu
•Governors, impunity ruined PDP—Ndoma-Egba
•Let’s learn from our pitfalls, Mark tells PDP
•Bauchi teenager kills self over failed marriage proposal
•Clinton turns up heat on Trump’s tax holdout

AUTHORITY
•Biafra Agitators: Soldiers, Police renew crackdown
...2 MASSOB members killed, 2 policemen injured in Onitsha
...FG’s persecution strengthening us---MASSAB, IPOB
•Budget Deficit financing: Reps seek more powers for DMO
•Jonathan has no hand in Niger Delta Avengers—IYC
•Fuel subsidy removal: Ignore Labour’s threat, CNPP tells Nigerians
•FIFIA President, Infantino, to visit Nigeria

THISDAY
•Military Confirms Arrest of N/Delta Avengers, Masterminds of Chevron Attacks
•Fuel Price Hike: Labour Begins Mobilisation for Total Strike, Shutdown
•Kidnapping: Igbos Threaten to Close Shops in Cross River
•PDP Declares South-west Zonal Congress Illegal
•New Fuel Price Regime as Necessary Pill
•Why Pharmacists Council of Nigeria Sealed 138 Premises in Delta
•Police Arrest Seven Hoodlums, Two Pickpockets in Lagos
•‘FG’s Policy on Fuel Pump Price Erroneous’
•Kachikwu: Subsidy Removal to Save N16.4bn Monthly for Govt
•Ambode: Fallen Family Values Responsible for Terrorism, Insurgency

NATION
•Pressure mounts on unions to shelve fuel price strike
•‘Eight million to benefit from budget’s social investments’
•2 million tonnes of petrol stuck on high seas
•Lai Mohammed battles cabal in NBC, others
•PDP crisis: Sheriff begs aggrieved leaders
•Fed Govt opts for dialogue with Labour to prevent strike
•Court orders UNILORIN to pay N970m tax arrears
•Boko Haram military commander captured
•DICON establishes PPP unit to drive industrial devt.
•Ex-Venezuelan oil minister hails Nigeria for allowing competition
•Reps seek powers for DMO to monitor debt-financed projects

LEADERSHIP
•Communicating To Win Like Claudio Ranieri
On Chieftaincy Matters In Tivland
•Increasing Financial Inclusion Through Non-interest MFBs
•Naira To Remain Low As Oil Marketers Buy Up $13.85m In One Week
•Oil Workers Want Strategic Alliance Of OML 42 Investigated
•I’ve Paid 13 Months Backlog Of Salaries Owed Workers – Gov Lalong
•Plot To Unseat Sheriff: Jerry Gana On His Own – Niger PDP
•FG Rolls Out Palliatives To Cushion Fuel Price Hike

PUNCH
•FG replies Falana on ‘recover $200bn looted funds advice’
•We’re probing Aregbesola over alleged LG funds diversion – EFCC
•Fuel price hike: FG meets labour today as Reps summon Kachikwu
•Iheanacho shines
•Dollar shortage stalls fuel imports
•Man United/Bournemouth match called off over suspect device
•Police rescue boy from abductors
•Pollution: Groups protest against Mobil
•I forged certificates to help the needy –75-year-old retired teacher
•UK ready to return looted funds, says AGF
Corps members
•S’West PDP congress illegal, say zonal leaders

VANGUARD
•Our goal is Sovereign State of Niger Delta, Niger Delta Avengers tells critics
•Buhari’s utterances prejudicial to my trial, Kanu laments
•PMS price hike: Presidency rolls out palliatives, to pay N5000 monthly to 1m Nigerians
•Whoever gave me Jonathan’s N950m campaign money should come out – Shekarau
•Battle for 2019 has started —Sheriff
•N93bn Debt: DISCOs Embark On Mass Disconnection
•Tambuwal Preaches Collaboration, As North-West Govs Meet On Agric Devt
•Buhari’s Change Must Come With Pain – Etiebet
•Edo 2016: Ban Odubu, Obaseki From APC Primaries —Bini Chiefs
•Cameron’s “Drunken” Gaffe
•Markets React To Petrol Market Liberalization
•6-Month Exclusive Breastfeeding’ll Save 800,000 Children— Experts
•All Enugu Political Families Now United, Says Gov Ugwuanyi

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