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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR WEDNESDAY 13TH JULY, 2016


VANGUARD
•Fitch downgrades credit ratings of First Bank, UBA
•Grains: IDRC, AGRA roll out $2.155m project to curb post harvest loss
•Ebonyi gov disowns social media accounts
•Buhari appoints Hadiza Usman as NPA boss
•Herdsmen/farmers’ clashes: Lalong supports setting-up of ranches
•MALNUTRITION: NEMA takes over feeding of 1.6m IDPs

PUNCH
•Rivers police recover missing N60.25m cash
•Edo gov: INEC rejects Sheriff faction candidates’ list
•Ekiti crash: EKSU student’s leg amputated
•I support state police – Osinbajo
•May God save Abuja pastor’s killers, says Adeboye
•Buhari writes N’Assembly on NNPC, CBN, others

GUARDIAN
•Organiser picks new date for Offshore West Africa forum
•Sheriff’s group claims support from nine governors
•INEC okays 1,390 ad hoc workers for Kogi senatorial rerun
•No plans to hike electricity tariff by 100%, say NERC, Discos
•U.S. has helped Nigeria’s democracy, says Buhari
•Uproar in Senate over alleged forgery trial

THISDAY
•Nigerian Surgeon Discovers Possible Cure for Malaria
•NDA Claims Attack on Qua Iboe Terminal, ExxonMobil Disputes Claim
•Saraki’s CCT Trial Postponed Till September
•Mo Ibrahim Foundation Announces 2016 Fellows from Nigeria, Rwanda
•Henry Confirms Arsenal Exit after Wenger’s Ultimatum over Pundit Role
•Senate Threatens to Impeach Buhari as Malami Meets Saraki

NEW TELEGRAPH
•Nasarawa Deputy governor lauds New telegraph
•FG begs oil majors not to retrench workers
•Buhari sacks NPA MD, Hadiza Usman takes over
•We collected 1.5million naira ransom for Sierra Lonean envoy - abductors
•Leadership crisis: PDP May die, say governors, 52 days after, national secretariat remains shut,
•Edo Guber: Sheriff loses to Makarfi

THE AUTHORITY
•Nigerian roads no longer motorable, Emir Sanusi laments
•No going back on ambassadorial nominees - FG
•Aviation sector rescue: FG removes duty, VAT on aircraft, spare parts
•Budget implementation: Senate summons Finance minister, SGF
•Alleged constitutional breaches: senators threaten to impeach Buhari

BLUEPRINT
•Impeachment axe dangles over Buhari,
Senate threatens AGF`s arrest, summons SGF,
•Reps in rowdy session over immunity
•Graduate labourer, one other killed in Abuja construction site
•Buhari to WHO: Nigeria will sustain polio-free status
•NOUN Vice Chancellor charges professors on inaugural lectures

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