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NEWSPAPER REVIEW, Monday, August 1, 2016


GUARDIAN
* Rights group asks Dogara, others to step aside over budget padding scandal
* NERC fines discos over customers’ complaints, reports
* Joint Admissions and Matriculations Board withdraws 2016 admission lists
* EKEDC throws National Theatre into darkness over N9m unpaid bills
* One killed as OPC rescues kidnapped landlords
* NRC manager warns commuters not to ride on roof of a train in motion

PUNCH
* ‘Cost of driving licence remains N6,350’
* Nigerians’ current travails sadden me, says El-Rufai
* I regret supporting Sheriff to become PDP chairman – Fayose
* Disarm Fulani herdsmen, Anglican church tells FG
* Soldiers foil ex-militants’ protest, FG begins payment today
* 19 militants held as NAF jets destroy four camps in S’West
* Budget padding: Step down, SERAP, SANs tell Dogara, others
* Budget padding: DSS lacks rights to investigate reps, says Falana

THISDAY
* Military on High Alert as Militants Declare N’Delta Republic Today
* Pipeline Vandalism: Surveillance, Reconnaissance Continue in Lagos, Ogun Creeks
* Armed Militia Kill Five Civilian JTF Members in Benue
* Militants Bomb NPDC Pipeline in Delta
* Mexico,Cross River to Establish 3,000 Hectares of Banana Plantation
* NERC Fines Enugu, Ibadan, PH, Ikeja Discos Millions of Naira for Regulatory Breaches

TRIBUNE
* FG Plans Major Reforms In Police, Immigration, Prisons •To Address Corruption, Introduce Career Patterns, Regular Promotions In Services
* Restructuring Of Nigeria Inevitable —Civil Society Group
* FG BANS T-SHIRTS, SOUVENIRS AT CONFERENCES
* 4 ARRESTED AS TROOPS, OPC BATTLE MILITANTS IN LAGOS FOR 6 HOURS •OPC LOSES ANOTHER MEMBER •ABDUCTED RCCG PASTOR, OTHERS RESCUED
* Kogi Jailbreak: 5 Escapee Prisoners Recaptured – Prisons CG
* Labour Insists On Strike As Al-Makura Adamant On Salary Cut

THE SUN
* We’re corrupt –Jibrin
* Ogun, Lagos bombardment: We surrender to FG –Militants
* JAMB withdraws 2016 admission lists sent to varsities, others
* FCMB manager kills self over N350m debt
* FG, Delta bicker over failed road
* Chinese firms conclude plans to open businesses in Nigeria
* How FG spent $340m, N27bn in search of oil in the North
* Lagos, Japanese firm partner on $1 billion rail project

VANGUARD
* Ex-militants’ protest: Army, DSS, Police, Navy take over Warri, Effurun
* Why ex-govs must face corruption charges – FG
* My emergence as Deputy Senate President, reason for my court trial – Ekweremadu
* Ex-Minister Laments Absence Of Kidney Transplant Centre In S’East
* Darkness Looms As GENCO’s Collapse Imminent
* Ambode Leads As Top Performing Governor
* Traditional rulers save Governor Yari from impeachment
* Budget padding: Why APC govs won’t intervene — Gov. Abubakar

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