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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR WEDNESDAY 22ND FEBRUARY, 2017.


NATION
*Whistle-blower exposes N8.4b fake bank account
*’We found $1m in Badeh’s wardrobe’
*Nigerian loses N240m to xenophobia
*Buhari to rest more in UK
*INEC report on Rivers rerun indicts police, others
*Jonathan: I didn’t back Sheriff for chair
*171 Libyan returnees arrive in Lagos airport

THISDAY
*DSS Witness Reveals Buhari’s Lawyer Offered Justice Ademola N500,000 as ‘Gift’
*President’s Test Results Require Him to Stay Longer in UK
*CBN Pumps $500m into FX Market, Banks Take up Only $371m
*Senators Say 2017 Appropriation Bill Messier Than 2016 Budget
*Nigerian Fashion Designer Gets Vogue’s Attention
*Report Reveals How INEC Officials Mishandled Rivers Rerun Elections
*Southern Kaduna Attacks: Death Toll Rises to 26
*South Africa Condemns Xenophobic Attacks on Nigerians, Others
*Nigeria Spent N1.1tn on Debt Service in Nine Months
*FG, States, LGs Share N465bn as Allocation Increases
*NNPC Clarifies N23.4bn Oil Export Supervision Debt to FG
*AMCON: Arumemi-Ikhide’s Businesses Owe Us N263.7bn
*UNICEF Warns Nearly 1.4m Children at Risk as Famine Looms
*Shell’s New LNG Forecast Rekindles Confidence in Brass LNG’s Future
*FG Threatens Telecom Firms, Asks Them to Get Listed on Stock Exchange
*CDS Wants Lake Chad Multinational Force to Step up Operations against Boko Haram
*Again, PCNI Budgets N60m to Fell Trees
*Ease of Doing Business: Presidency Mandates N’Assembly to Pass Crucial Laws within 60 Days
*Shema, Three Others Arraigned, Granted N4bn Bail
Jonathan Denies Endorsing Sheriff
*Buhari: IPC Frowns at Denial of Access to Information to Journalist in London
*ExxonMobil Denies Embarking on Fresh Retrenchment of Workers
*National Security: DHQ Calls for New Intelligence Policy
*Witness Reveals How $1m was Found in Badeh’s Wardrobe
*Another Batch of 171 Stranded Nigerians in Libya Arrive Lagos Airport
*NYSC Withdraws Corps Members from Rivers Rerun Elections

DAILY TRUST
*APC prays for PDP over its leadership crisis
*Benue targets 50, 000 rice farmers under Anchor Borrowers
*NSCDC operatives train ahead nationwide ranching policy
*We won’t allow B/Haram in Kogi state - Bello
*Grade II teachers better than NCE holders - Minister
*Strike: Health workers give FG 7 days ultimatum
*Reps quiz ITF boss over N1.4bn expenditure
*Budget passage no longer feasible on March 8 – Senators

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