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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, Thursday, June 16, 2016


NIGERIAN PILOT
•Minister meets operators on sustainable power supply
•Dangote appoints Mrs. Dorothy Ufot as Independent non-executive director
•We are operating at 30% capacity – Seme Customs
•Oil prices fall for fourth straight day
•Stocks erase 8-day loss as CBN unveils flexible FX regime framework
•FG favours external debt over domestic borrowing
•Rampaging PDP Youths Sack Sheriff from Secretariat

NATION
•Mob storms PDP hqtrs
•Protest shameful, says Sheriff
•Market forces to determine Naira rate, says CBN
•Badeh’s agent asked me to buy property in my company’s name’
•NLC set to shut six banks for sacking workers
•Poll cash: Sheriff agrees to refund N40m
•Police procure drones, forensic laboratory to tackle crime
•Alleged misconduct: Govt replaces nine defence attaches
•Appeal Court okays ex-NSA Dasuki’s detention
•Sheriff should stop fomenting trouble, says Filani
•Fed Govt faults Saraki’s application against CCT Chair
•Banking in a depressed economy

PUNCH
•Ogun students protest lecturers’ unpaid 14-month salaries
•Retirees shut down Imo over six-year unpaid pensions
•Banks grumble as Bayelsa civil servants receive cash salaries
•Navy arrests more pipeline vandals in Delta
•Involve credible people in dialogue with Avengers’
•We’ll soon put smile on Nigerians’ faces – Buhari
•Workers protest continues, Ajimobi says no work, no pay
•NLC threatens strike over sacked bank workers
•Prosecution lawyer’s absence stalls Dokpesi’s trial

LEADERSHIP
•Challenge Of Setting Up Private Refineries
•BEDC Assures Of Improved Services Within Network
•‘Nigeria’s Woe Will Continue Until We Have True Federalism’
•Kaduna Electric Laments Menace Of Vandals
•Uwais: Accolades For An Uncommon Jurist At 80
•Minister Charges Promoted Aides On Dedication
•Revenue Generation: Bwari Council Boss Inspects Markets

THISDAY
•I-Care Initiative Celebrates World Elder Abuse Awareness Day
•Market Women, Youths Shut down Calabar, Seek EIA Approval for Superhighway
•Osun Christians Hold Prayer Rallies in Protest against Hijab Ruling
•CAN Calls on FG, N’Assembly to Suspend Grazing Bill
•Buhari Consoles Ghanaian President on the Death of His Mother
•Widow, 92, Withdraws Suit Seeking Return of Lagos Schools
•Militancy: Ita-Giwa Wants FG to Dialogue with Credible Nigerians

VANGUARD
•Makarfi, Sheriff’s supporters invade Wadata Plaza
•Ngige’s untenable directives to banks
Mass sack: NECA hails Senate’s intervention
•Boko Haram kills 4 in Borno village, as 17 insurgents surrender
•Senate to replace NPA with new body
•Job creation’ll end pipeline vandalism— Kachikwu
•IMO gives Nigeria 90 days ultimatum to implement convention
•Oando Foundation, partners USAID to educate displaced children in N East
•FG to establish broadband optic fibre in N-Delta
•Epidemic looms as over 28,000 IDPS defecate openly in Borno camp
•Okorocha inaugurates 135-member elders’ council

BLUEPRINT
•Economic meltdown: no cause for alarm-CBN
•Markarfi, sheriff’s supporters lay siege to wadata plaza.
•INEC chair wants more women in electoral process.
•EFCC quizzes Sheriff in maiduguri over PDP Campaign funds.
•Enugu killings community demands 17 bn naira compensation.

NATIONAL MIRROR
•Pandemonium as thugs invade PDP secretariat.
•Bodies of 42 fisherman killed by boko haram pulled from Lake chad.
•Fresh motion to disqualify CCT chairman stalls Saraki’s trial.
•Alleged money laundering: FANI kayode seeks bail.
•FG seeks more foreign loan- Adeosun.

DAILY SUN
•Power show in PDP.
•New forex policy begins Monday.
•Reps fight over constituency, zonal projects.
•I won’t get justice from you, Saraki tells CCT Chairman.
•Joint venture for policy discourse.

AUTHORITY
•Economic meltdown: FG goes for more foreign loans.
•Marauding herdsmen: Enugu community demands 17 bn compensation.
•PDP youths invade secretariat, sack Sheriff.
•Judge to police: You can’t arrest suspects before investigation.
•Nobody has spoken to me about my father’s death- Keshi’s son.

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