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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR WEDNESDAY 26TH OCTOBER, 2016.



THIS DAY
*Buhari Seeks Approval for $30bn Foreign Borrowing, N180bn Budget Virement
*China Fine-tunes Oil Deals with FG, Seeks Sovereign Guarantee on Investments
*Jonathan: Dasuki Did Not Steal $2.2bn
*N’Delta Avengers Resumes Hostilities, Bombs Chevron Export Pipeline
*Another Nominee, NERC Chairman-designate, Rejects Buhari’s Appointment
*APC May Implode Before 2019, Warns Deputy Spokesman
*Senate Calls for Re-introduction of Toll Gates

GUARDIAN
*EFCC will go after more corrupt judges, says Magu
*Forex crisis pushes up profits for local firms
*Nigeria set to resume vaccine production, eyes $280m from export
*PDP warns EFCC against maltreating Fani-Kayode
*Stakeholders task government on UN resolutions in oil sector
*Population commission seeks domestication of child rights act
*Adeosun explains 2017 budget figures

TRIBUNE
*Arrested judges to be arraigned today 
*We will return Nigeria to good old days —Buhari 
*Excess crude account now $2.4bn —FG *Warns NAFDAC, SON against importation of poisonous food 
*PDP, not APC, killed my husband —Alamieyeseigha’s widow 
*Court fixes Dec 12 to hear Tompolo’s suit against FG 
*Africa’s 5th largest economy: We’ll soon set up economic team —Ambode 
*Kachikwu wants Chinese investors to fast-track investments in Nigeria 

PUNCH
*Jonathan under attack for saying Dasuki didn’t steal $2.1bn
*Militants blow up export line, crude production threatened
*Kidnappers gave us 10 strokes of the cane daily —Victims
*Lagos policemen shoot teenager, attack brother with cutlass
*EFCC investigating those in Buhari govt, says Magu
*Kenya arrests 26 Nigerians for flouting visa laws
*PDP crisis: Sheriff blames Makarfi for collapse of peace talks
*I sacrificed human head as advised by mad woman —Suspect

VANGUARD
*Senate urges FG to include Azikiwe, Balewa, Nyerere, Nkrumah’s pan-Africanism struggle in schools
*Nigeria ranks 169th position in the World Bank Ease of Doing Business
*FG sends ICPC boss, Nta Expo on compulsory leave
*Customs, other revenue agencies stink of corruption, Adeosun discloses
*I would fix power sector, Niger Delta, infrastructure before I leave office – Buhari
*Can Nigeria continue to avoid probing Jonathan?

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