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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, Thursday, May 12, 2016


BLUE PRINT
•Imminent showdown over 145naira fuel price
•Northern elders to BoT: Take over PDP from Sheriff
•Over 149 detainees die in military detention—Amnesty
•Angry Kano youth set Senator Gaya’s house ablaze
•Australian drags EFCC boss, Magu to court for contempt
•Buhari to Cameron: Hold your apology, give me looted funds
•Ex-NAF boss diverted 4.8billion naira to buy personal property—FG

DAILY TRUST
•Ex-Minister admits collecting 700million naira for Shettima—EFCC
•FG caps fuel price at 145naira per litre...NLC vows to resist increase
•Bandits ask Zamfara farmers to stay away from farms
•No minister for Kogi 2 months after Ocholi’s death
•Amnesty: 149 died in Giwa barracks......It’s not true---Army
•Buhari demands return of stolen funds from U.K.
•759 days since over 200 Chibok school girls were taken by Boko Haram

NATIONAL MIRROR
•Patients panic as doctors’ strike hits hospitals
•2 Nigerians to be executed in Indonesia for drugs
•24billion naira cash receipt: EFCC arrests Imoke, Imasuen, Ize-Iyamu
•How i helped Badeh divert 558.2million naira monthly—Witness
•APC’s poor performance vindicates me—Sheriff
•Petrol to sell for 145naira per litre as FG removes subsidy
•NLC, IPMAN, others react
•Alleged 9.7billion naira fraud: EFCC arrests ex-Air Force chief, Umar

AUTHORITY
•Outrage as FG hikes petrol price to 145naira per litre
•We won’t accept the increase, says NLC....Presidency caught us off-guard---T.U.C.
•Buhari admits Cameron’s corruption label on Nigeria
•Unfulfilled promises: Kano youths burn Senator Gaya’s residence
•Tension as herdsmen storm Imo communities
•NYSC defends compulsory skills acquisition programme
•Visa hitches threaten Eagles’ Euro friendlies

NATION
•Petrol is N145 per litre
•PDP leaders threaten parallel convention
•N23.29b bribe: EFCC quizzes Imoke, two ex-ministers, others
•PPPRA explains new price regime
•Buhari urges UK to release stolen cash
•British PM should apologise, says Kalu
•‘How I got information on Saraki’s house purchase’
•Mixed reactions as Fed Govt increases fuel price to N145 per litre
•Independent marketers seek outright deregulation of oil sector

PUNCH
•Ronke’s family releases proof of battery, infidelity...alleged lover denies relationship
•Lagos ‘doctor’ rapes, impregnates 26-year-old patient
•Nigerian courts pamper the rich, punish the poor
•Retired teacher nabbed for allegedly forging certificates
•Four students escape death as two-storeyed building collapses
•Duke, Imoke shun PDP congress in C’River
•Ex-INEC boss plans youth empowerment in Osun
•‘Stop playing politics with Rivers crime’
•TMG says Britain not sincere with global anti-graft war
•16,532 Oyo workers face probe over multiple salaries
•Budget: N’Assembly to seek S’Court’s interpretation on power
•Nigeria loses 400,000bpd as Shell declares force majeure
•Presidential committee exposed Saraki’s anticipatory declaration – Witness

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