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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR TUESDAY 23RD AUGUST, 2016.



PUNCH
* Wife of Ogun council chairmanship candidate abducted
* Man who named dog Buhari sent to prison
* Fulani herdsmen kill RCCG pastor, two others in Kaduna
* Restructuring can’t solve Nigeria’s problems says, Ganduje
* Dialogue: New militant group rejects Clark, backs Diete-Spiff
* Budget padding: ‘Dogara, Jibrin, others guilty’
* Prophet chains 28 ‘sick’ persons in Lagos apartment

THISDAY
* DSS Nabs Alleged Mastermind of Yobe Secondary School Killings
* MEND Accepts NDA’s Ceasefire, Kicks against Clark’s Involvement in Peace Negotiations
* CCT Fixes New Dates for Saraki, Orubebe’s Trials
* BBOG Asks Buhari to Negotiate with Boko Haram for Release of Chibok Girls
* Senators Reject Buhari’s Emergency Powers Bill, Say It’ll Turn Him into a Tyrant
* 100 INEC Staff under EFCC Probe, Says Yakubu
* FG Insists All Teachers Must Pass Professional Qualifying Examinations

THE SUN
* Lassa fever: 32 quarantined in Delta after doctor’s death
* Corruption, security top Kerry’s visit to Nigeria
* Police arrest 23 suspected terrorists in Anambra
* FG promises to complete Ibadan-Ilorin Expressway in 2019
* Buhari’s emergency powers bill; Outrage trails president’s plan
* Again, Mbaka alleges plot to kill Buhari
* Economic hardship: S’African firm pulls out of Nigeria over EFCC harassment

VANGUARD
* CBN orders banks to sell 60% forex to manufacturers
* CHIBOK GIRLS: No more excuses, #BBOG tells Buhari
* Gas alone can’t solve Nigeria’s electricity problem — FG
* CAPTIVITY: Man chains 28 persons in his Lagos house
* 20 dead as 2-storey building collapses in Kano Varsity
* Abakaliki Jail Break: Human Rights Group Accuses Prisons Officials Of Extra-Judicial Killings
* Farmers’re Aristocrats Of The Future—Kaduna Agric Commissioner

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