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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, Tuesday, June 07, 2016


BLUE PRINT
•INEC reinstates 20, dismisses 1, sanctions 3
•Don’t return refugees to Borno, Yobe, U.N. warns
•Presidency: ‘Ndigbo must drop Biafra agitation’
•Kogi governor ship tussle: Bello wins round 1
...says victory divide...extends olive branch to Flake
•Why FG hasn’t named treasury looters—Osinbajo
•Sheriff not aware of reconciliatory meeting—Aide
•Recovered funds: NLC calls for Special Court on Corruption

AUTHORITY
•Militants bombing threat: Don’t panic, IGP tells Nigerians.....FG negotiating with Niger •Delta Elders, says Osinbajo
•Residents flee as armed herdsmen storm Anambra community
•Buhari’s medical trip: Osinbajo is Acting President
•Corruption: Report tear4s presidential panel apart
•Why i concedsed defeat to Buhari—Jonathan
•Bill to expand Sharia Court passes second reading
•Transfer: Vardy keeps Arsenal, Leicester City waiting

DAILY SUN
•Ex- President Jonathan speaks: I’m under probe...says, I didn’t leave empty treasury
•Like anybody, I can fall ill—Buhari
•Dokpesi escapes assassination, police orderly shot dead
•Kogi: Tribunal upholds Bello as governor
•As deadline for missiles use notice expires.....
•Militants target Abuja, Kaduna, Lagos
Threaten to hit NNPC Towers, CBN, headquarters of multi-national firms
•Why we didn’t name looters--Osinbajo

LEADERSHIP
•Edo Guber: PVCs Are Allegedly On Sale – Gen Airhiavbere
•Protest: Oyo Closes Public Schools
•Actress Henrietta Kosoko Is Dead
•Court Grants Former NIMASA DG Post-trial Bail Pending Appeal
•Lead Poisoning: Niger Goes Tough On Illegal Mining
•Military Action Won’t End Insurgency In Niger Delta – INC
•Oklahoma Condemns Murder Of Imo Woman In Kano
•Gov Wike Commences Construction Of Sakpwenwa-Bori Road To Ogoniland

PUNCH
•Ramadan: Ambode, Obasa seek tolerance among Nigerians
•Jide Kosoko’s wife, Henrietta, dies at 53
•Assembly wants governors to provide CCTV on roads
•UNILAG students drown in beach during friend’s birthday
•Buhari may extend 10-day trip — Report
•Domestic airlines may raise fares
•Skye Bank sacks 175 workers
•FG inaugurates committee to negotiate with Niger Delta Avengers

NATION
•Presidency: Buhari not ill
•I’m being investigated for corruption, says Jonathan
•Alleged $40m fraud: Jonathan’s cousin’s, wife’s trial begins
•Tribunal upholds Bello’s election
•Two UNILAG postgraduate students ‘drown’ in Elegushi beach
•Oyo school pupils protest return of schools to missions
•Waiting for Buhari’s judicial reforms
•Ear infection: Heart of the matter
Generating granite
•Kogi Assembly: Torn apart by strife

THISDAY
•Stumbling Dollar, Nigeria’s Militancy Push Oil Prices above $50
•Jonathan: I Did Not Leave Empty Treasury
•260km Super Highway: 13 Int’l NGOs Petition FG, Fault EIA
•Tribunal Affirms Bello as Kogi Governor, Dismisses Faleke’s Petition
•Osinbajo Defends Decision Not to Name Looters
•FG, Banks Eye N5tn Pension Fund as N’Assembly Promises Speedy Legislation
•Amuka: Police Yet to Rule out Insider Connection, Continue Discrete Investigations
•260km Super Highway: 13 Int’l NGOs Petition FG, Fault EIA
•NLNG Denies Link to Recovery of Funds
•FG Moves to Dialogue as Militants Renew Threat to Bomb Abuja, Others

VANGUARD
•20 escape death as fuel tanker crashes into cars, trailer in Aba
•Master’s students drown during birthday party in Lagos beach
•Buhari orders 2-week ceasefire in N-Delta
•Biafra: Igbo leaders who visited Buhari after Nkpor massacre are traitors —IPOB
•Buhari did not inherit empty treasury- Jonathan
•Kogi Gov Poll: Why Tribunal dismissed Faleke’s petition
•Jide Kosoko’s wife, Henrietta dies at 53
•$2.1bn Arms Probe: Dasuki seeks consolidation of charges against him
•I’ve informed NASS about my illness – Buhari
•Why FG withheld names of those who returned loot — Osinbajo

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