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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, Wednesday, June 01, 2016


NATIONAL MIRROR
•Workers tighten noose on Fayose as strike worsens
...APC says governor lied on April FAAC allocation
•Labour accuses him of collecting 20billion naira loans secretly
•Nigeria records 794billion naira drop in export-import trade
•Arase orders disarmament of IPOB activists
•Electricity tariff reversal will cost 575billion naira—NERC
•Security beefed up in Ikorodu as militants threaten Atlas Cove pipeline
•Lack of quorum stalls Saraki’s appeal

BLUE PRINT
•IPOB/Niger Delta Avengers: Buhari not learning from the past---Atiku
...wants reconstruction of Nigeria
•Diplomatic passports: NIS orders arrest of ex-governors, ministers, others
•INEC to conclude suspended polls July 31.....reschedules Edo, Ondo CVR for June 22
•No going back on hiked electricity tariff—FG
•Alleged blasphemy: 5 killed in Niger
•NASS to take over CCB
•Dialogue with Avengers not now—Army

AUTHORITY
•Nigeria can’t work now, says Atiku
•Biafra Day: Senate declines debate on killings
•Again, herdsmen sack Benue communities, kill 15
•Diplomatic Passports: FG orders arrest of ex-ministers, lawmakers, others
•Yobo joins Gov. Wike’s cabinet
•Centre rates Buhari high on education
•Nasarawa Varsity’s ASUU suspends strike

NATION
•Police to Lagosians: ignore rumour of militants attack
•Save my sight, acid victim cries out
•Buhari, Igbo leaders meet
•NNPC owes JV partners $7b, says NAPIMS
•Army: no talks with militants
‘•Invest recovered loot in low-cost housing’
•No plan to sell schools, says Oyo
•Nigeria’s Q1 import, export bills decline by N793.5b
•Atiku: Nigeria’s federation must be restructured
•Poland to revamp $35b pension fund
•Path to economic recovery, by DMO Chief

THISDAY
•Buhari to CBN: No Objection to Flexible Exchange Rate
•Senate Slams Fashola over Poor Power Supply
•Soldier, Policemen Fight in Banking Hall
•A SPECIAL REPORT : Street lights street views
•We Acted in Self Defence over Biafra Day Killings, Says Military
•House Passes Amendments to CCB Act, Removes Presidential Oversight
•We Won’t Back down, Militants Tell FG
•Establishment of National Shipping Line Underway, Says Amaechi
•N’Assembly Committee Issues Bench Warrant against Seven Oil Companies
•Adesina: How I Have Managed ‘Brand Buhari’ in One Year
•Police Withdraw from PDP Headquarters, BoT to Meet Staff Today

PUNCH
•Domestic violence: 4,000 cases recorded in 1year –LASG
•Lack of funds won’t stop Ogoni clean-up – FG
•Flood ravages Ebonyi villages, farmers seek help
•Two injured as Navy storms Delta community
•A’Court orders My Pikin seller to pay N1m fine
•FG to establish national shipping line – Amaechi
•Ekiti workers shun meeting with Fayose, insist on strike
•Nigeria records first trade deficit in seven years…balance of trade dips by N793.5bn
•Buhari meets South-East politicians as police arraign 101 pro-Biafran protesters

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