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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR Friday 11th AUGUST, 2016.


GUARDIAN
* President wants rich nations to save receding Lake Chad
* Prioritise Niger Delta’s development to check vandalism, don tells government, oil firms
* Recovery of N30b debt may ground domestic airlines
* UNESCO plans to expand chair programme in Nigeria
* Enugu prison yet to confirm number of escapees
* NERC fines IBEDC N21m for poor consumer handling
* Ambode commissions first state-owned helipad for medical emergencies

PUNCH
* Nigeria is now a poor country, says Buhari
* Budget padding: EFCC, ICPC can’t probe Reps –Dogara
* FG to release N100bn for capital projects
* Rivers police arrest 18 kidnappers, rescue seven
* I discussed national matters with Buhari, says Soyinka
* Ambode promises 24-hour emergency services
* 13-year-old sets new record in Maths competition

THISDAY
* Court Bars Police, DSS, INEC from Interfering with PDP Convention
* Budget Feud: I Have Immunity against Police Interrogation, Says Dogara
* Ugborodo Crisis: Protesters Continue Siege on Chevron Facility
* FG: New Polio Cases Have Set Nigeria Backwards
* Lai Mohammed Faults US for Declaring 20 Nigerian States Unsafe
* Shettima Appoints Preaching Regulators to Thwart Boko Haram Ideology
* Adenuga Enters ‘Telecoms Hall of Fame’

VANGUARD
* Budget Padding: Why House inserted projects – Yakubu Dogara
* 2016 budget funding: FG to raise additional N110bn bond next week
* FG saves N1.4trn from downstream oil, gas deregulation – Osinbajo
* Nigeria spends N1trn on 4 food imports annually – FG
* India, Spain, Netherlands buy 43% of Nigeria’s crude oil — NNPC
* Bola Ajibola To Buhari: Don’t Bow To Pressure Against Anti-Corruption War
* ‘FG Should Prevent Religion, Ethnicity From Becoming Nigeria’s Identity’

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