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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR THURSDAY 12TH JANUARY, 2017.



THE SUN
*Vehicle importation: Senate rejects FG’s ban
*Boko Haram: Army recovers corpses of Lt-Col, 15 other missing soldiers
*Abia guber tussle: Supreme Court hearing stalled
*APC senators target Ekweremadu –Ndume
*Fuel scarcity averted as NUPENG suspends strike
*Senate confirms Ayine as Auditor- General of the Federation
*Kidnap kingpin jailed 11 years with hard labour
*Kanu: MASSOB spits fire
*Buhari, Saraki meet over 2017 budget
*UN investigates Southern Kaduna attacks, killings

THE PUNCH
*Buhari, Ohanaeze, Ekweremadu, Okorocha hail new Ohanaeze president
*Police, prison officials clash at Edo poll tribunal
*FRC has no power to fix Adeboye, others’ tenure –Reps
*Army recovers corpses of missing officer, 15 soldiers in Borno
*Killings: Sultan condemns hate speeches
*Treasonable felony: FG wants Kanu’s application dismissed
*FG calls second witness against Saraki Jan. 17
*Oloyede denies N3bn fraud allegation, threatens to sue ASUU
*14 witnesses to testify against Justice Ademola, wife, SAN
*Reject buildings without approval, LASG tells tenants
*Are urges parents to promote indigenous languages
*SaharaReporters founder, Sowore, arrested in Lagos
*FG grants 335 foreigners Nigerian citizenship
*NDDC denies funding Rivers rerun with N40bn
*Reps seek safe haven for Jammeh in Nigeria

VANGUARD
*Rivers re-run polls: Police probe panel has predetermined agenda —Wike
*PH, Kaduna, Warri refineries resume kerosene, diesel production
*Senate rejects FG’s ban on land border car importation
*Ohanaeze election: Igbo elite at war
*Emotions run high as Kure is buried in Minna
*Why Police arrested SaharaReporters’ publisher in Lagos
*Saraki denies betraying Ndume
*NEITI asks NPDC to settle $4.977bn liabilities

GUARDIAN
*Petrol price template crumbles
*Scientists near cure for blindness
*Messi contract needs ‘common sense’
*Troops kill 53 terrorists, recover 16 bodies of soldiers
*Senate rejects ban on land border car importation
*Obasanjo launches initiative to end hunger by 2030
*Saraki’s trial resumes, FG to call second witness Jan 17
*CAN blames El-Rufai, Imams for prolonged southern Kaduna crisis
*Wike alleges IG panel on Rivers re-run poll has pre-determined agenda
*Supreme Court justice withdraws from Abia case over allegation of bias

THE NATION
*Confusion in The Gambia as Jammeh appoints mediator
*EFCC finds N632.2m in ex-Chief Judge’s account
*$40b more Chinese investment coming
*Court remands Fayose’s aides for alleged $50,000 theft
*Ex-director, ex-NJC secretary, 12 others to testify in Justice Ademola’s trial
*Boko Haram: Troops recover bodies of Lt.-Col., 15 soldiers
*Baale Oloode sues Olubadan for removal

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