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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR TUESDAY 24TH OCTOBER, 2016.



THIS DAY
*Presidency, NJC Standoff Continues as Council Sets up Ethics Committee
*APC Accepts Responsibility for Economic Hardship in the Country
*NNPC: Sale of Petrol at N145 is No Longer Sustainable, Product...
*VFS: US, UK are Most Travelled Destinations by Nigerians
*FG Appoints Okhiria, MD of Nigeria Railway Corporation
*Buhari to Issue Executive Order on Transparency
*Senate Probe: CBN Orders Banks to Suspend Payment of MTN Dividends

VANGUARD
*Femi Fani-Kayode slumps in EFCC custody, says aide
*Ijaw Nation: Controversy over INC presidency
*Judges to declare assets before, after judgment – NJC
*$2.1bN arms cash: EFCC quizzes Jonathan’s aide, Abati
*We need N222bn to conduct 2018 census, says NPC
*We fought corruption without making noise —Jonathan
*I was elected President to spread wealth, not poverty - Jonathan
*‘We cannot continue to be disgraced as a nation through mismanagement’

PUNCH
*APC governors tackle Buhari on appointments
*Falana faults NJC, insists arrested judges must be suspended
*No hiding place for corrupt office-holders, says Magu
*Senate probes diversion of $400m polio fund
*Delta women protest herdsmen attacks, block expressway
*Reps accuse MDAs, insurance firms of defrauding FG
*No cattle grazing in FCT, Minister insists
*Why we banned Shiites in Plateau’

GUARDIAN
*NJC shields judicial officers accused of misconduct
*Uncertainty over federal civil service group life insurance scheme
*All we are saying....we cannot pay N1.2m
*Man held for alleged attempt to defraud Otedola, Tinubu
*Amaechi bribery saga, litmus test for Buhari’s anti-graft war
*Zamalek’s president blames loss to Sundowns on magic, sorcery
*APC governors meet Buhari, flay envoy-nominees’ list

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