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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR THURSDAY 7TH OCTOBER, 2016.



GUARDIAN
* Senate in rowdy session over Lagos State special status bill
* Teachers threaten strike, want retirement age raised to 65
* Nigeria requires $12m yearly for family planning, lifesaving drugs
* IMF laments rising debt profile of Nigeria
* Rivers Chief Judge orders arrest of prisons comptroller
* Senate makes fresh move to amend CCB, CCT Act
* TRCN, college lament slow educational development, poor teacher’s quality
* Muslim, Christian communities protest against Shiites in Kaduna

PUNCH
* Reps revisit controversial $1.1bn Malabu oil deal
* N255m armoured cars: Court refuses to stop Stella Oduah’s arrest
* Militants give gov conditions to accept amnesty
* Corruption: INEC awaits EFCC’s report on officers
* B’Haram has no base in Nigeria – Military
* Senate seeks stricter penalty for kidnappers
* Corruption: Buhari has letters implicating Jonathan
* FCT minister orders psychiatric tests on traffic offenders

THE SUN
* 2019: Tinubu’s associates set  to revive AD
* FG to get $4bn Chinese facility –Kachikwu
* Commotion as senators reject ‘special status’ bill for Lagos
* Council staff goes beserk, stabs 3, kills self
* Bayelsa Assembly raises the alarm over earth tremor
* Militants threatens guerrilla warfare over rights abuses by military
* Nigeria ranked low by WEF on ease of doing business
* Veteran actor, Baba Suwe, is sick –Fabiyi

DAILY TRUST
* Adamawa declares state of emergency on basic education
* Insecurity: Police establish joint operation centre in Niger
* NBA urges true federalism to protect states against recession
* FG: Budget constraints hindering road projects
* Military must engage N/Delta militants on social level – Kachikwu
* FG inaugurates c’ttee on farmer-herder clashes
* Financing SME, key to economy recovery – FG
* Sultan: Religion personal choice, suicide bombers going to hell

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