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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR MONDAY 12TH DECEMBER, 2016.



GUARDIAN
* Airlines panic as Nigeria, Ghana run out of aviation fuel
* Winners emerge in Rivers bloody re-run elections
* Reps withdraw immunity bill for Saraki, Dogara from constitution review items
* Disquiet over non-appointment of federal auditor general
* ‘Buhari not relegating Ndigbo’ - Dr. Chris Ngige
* Dana Air denies plane crash allegation
* Stakeholders differ on scrapping of Bank of Industry
* Bingham University alumnus invents election app

THISDAY
* CBN, Banks to Establish Fresh N30bn Special Fund
* Sexual Violence, Most Serious Crime against Women
* Emmanuel Declares Two-day Mourning for Scores of Dead Worshippers in Church Building Collapse
* FG in Secret Talks with N’Delta Militants Despite Failure to Formally Name Negotiating Team
* Dogara, Others Greet Muslims Call for Unity, Humility
* Sexual Violence, Most Serious Crime against Women - Justice for All
* Proposed BOI Scrapping: NLC, MAN, CIBN, Others Warn of Dire Economic Consequences for Nigeria
* Delta’s Home-Grown School Feeding Programme Kicks off

PUNCH
* Church collapse: A’Ibom governor orders arrest of contractors
* Three die as police raid Bauchi kidnappers’ den
* Fake embassy found in Lagos, two Chinese arrested
* Environment minister set to leave Buhari’s govt
* Three killed, 17 injured as suicide bombers attack Borno
* Cassava can generate N20tn for Nigeria yearly –NCGA
* 2017 budget’ll take Nigeria out of recession –Buhari
* Discos worse than NEPA, PHCN – Senate committee

THE SUN
* We need to wean ourselves off importation –Dangote, President, Dangote Group
* Shiites raise the alarm over whereabouts of El-Zakzaky
* Rivers rerun: DSP, orderly beheaded, 5 policemen missing
* Yoruba Council of Elders YCE advocates fiscal federalism
* Reps summon Adeosun, others over N1tr rail contracts
* Federal roads in Imo death traps –Okorocha
* Outrage, as Nigerians bemoan ban on Tokunbo cars
* LASU sacks senior lecturer for abscondment


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