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NEWSPAPER REVIEW FOR TUESDAY 16TH MAY, 2017.



DAILY TRUST
*Budget faces fresh hurdle at N/Assembly
*FAAN reactivates Ebola screening points at airports
*‘93 Days’ gets highest nominations in 2017 AMAA list
*Nollywood movies top 2017 AMAA nomination list
*No money is stolen from Paris-London Club refunds – NGF
*Osun Assembly clears Aregbesola’s commissioner-designates
*Osinbajo meets Transport minister, service chiefs over maritime security
*Scrabble: Nigeria will retain position as World’s No. 1
*Armed herdsmen kill 20 farmers in Niger mosque – Police
*Equities lose N235bn to profit-taking
*Lafarge to raise N140billion additional capital, merges with UNICEM
*Osinbajo reviews 2017 budget
*Prosecutors ponder CCT’s temporary forfeiture provision
*Legality of deploying soldiers for civil duties
*Social media as an educational and enlightenment platform
*Principles behind ‘no case submission’– Court
*UN appoints Ladan member of comtt. on environmental crimes
*Yari: I’ve no hotel in Lagos
*I prefer Wada to Bello — Melaye
*Democratic party seeks nullification of 2015 election over campaign funds

THISDAY
*FG Brainstorms on Modalities for Funding 2017 Budget
*Oil Rises Above $52 as Saudis, Russians Back Longer Supply Cut
*FAAN Commences Screening of Inbound *Int’l Flights Following Ebola Outbreak in DRC
*Violence Engulfs JAMB Centre as Candidates Block Abuja-Lokoja Expressway
*Adeleke’s Death: Osun Deputy Gov, Others Appear Before Coroner’s Panel
*Stock Market Surges 12% in Three Weeks on Rising Investor Confidence in FX Window
*Justice Ademola Asks NJC to Allow Him to Resume Sitting
*FG: Four Chibok Girls’ Babies in Our Custody
*FG Brainstorms on Modalities for Funding 2017 Budget
*Ebola Outbreak: Adewole Visits Abuja Airport, Calls for Calm
*Naira Gains as CBN Floods Market with $457.3m
*Court Transfers Alleged Bribery Suit against INEC Officials to Port Harcourt
*Bala-Usman Pleads with Clearing Agents as Low Compliance Mars Strike
*Lagos Inaugurates State Oil Company
*Violence Engulfs JAMB Centre as Candidates Block Abuja-Lokoja Expressway
*Financial Times Ranks LBS as Top Global Business School
*Oando Clarifies Role in Rehabilitation of Port Harcourt Refinery
*EFCC Re-arraigns Fani-Kayode, Nenadi Usman
*NNPC: Oil Exploration to Begin in Lake Chad Basin in Six Months

THE NATION
*Governors angry as $3.45b Paris Club refund is stuck
*Sagay kicks as Saraki, Dogara fault Buhari’s anti-graft battle
*CBN’s $4b intervention narrows official, black market gap
*Federal Character Commission queries DSS over ‘lopsided recruitment’
*Gunmen abduct Ondo Permanent Secretary
*Osun deputy governor at Adeleke’s inquest
*NPA to fix Apapa roads with N4b as agents, others begin strike
*Lagos disburses N11.75b to retirees
*Sagay to lawmakers: you are enemies of anti-graft war
*Minister: it’s sad children can’t write, read in mother tongue
*EFCC seeks permanent forfeiture of Patience’s Jonathan’s $5.7m
*Fayose removes PDP logo from campaign office, billboards
*Diezani bribe: EFCC seeks to transfer case to new judge
*Governors angry as $3.45b Paris Club refund is stuck
*Fake UTME questions out for N200,000, JAMB warns

PUNCH
*A’Court orders CBN to account for assets recovered from Cecilia Ibru
*Patience Jonathan appeals forfeiture order on $5.9m
*Alleged Wike’s bribe: FCT judge transfers INEC officers’ trial to P’Harcourt
*Sagay, SERAP, CACOL berate Saraki for attacking EFCC, ICPC
*Monarchs’ superiority: Obas council gives Olugbo four days to withdraw statement
*Adeleke was given overdose of banned injection – LAUTECH CMD
*15 persons die, FRSC uncovers five guns in Kaduna crashed vehicle
*Police arrest syndicate repackaging expired cement
*N4.9bn fraud: EFCC re-arraigns Fani-Kayode, others before new judge
*Police arrest eight herdsmen for Benue killings
*Gunmen kidnap Ondo perm sec, demand N70m ransom
*Ekweremadu prays for Buhari, Presidency denies death rumour
*IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu, hails Punch

LEADERSHIP
*Why Nigerians Rate The Army Best Defence Agency
*Re-Day Dogara Returned From ‘Exile’ with Bounties
*Rivers Govt Seals-off Health Centre Over Missing Baby
*Multiplier Effects Of CBN’s Foreign Exchange Intervention
*MFBs Seek FG, CBN Technical Support For BVN Registration
*N76bn GE Oil/Gas Multimodal Facility To Generate 4,300 Jobs
*Effects Of Uncontrolled Rosewood Exploitation In Nigeria
*Lagos Pensioners Get N11bn In 1 Year

THE GUARDIAN
*Doctors move to avert spread of fresh Ebola outbreak
*Reps summon Adeosun over alleged oil, gas infractions
*Capital market experts caution on equities investment
*Trump accused of divulging top secret intelligence to Russians
Senate warns Kachikwu over claims on PIB
*President Buhari’s indefinite medical trip wrong, says poll
*Lagos State laments impact of forex fluctuation on ongoing projects
*Court adjourns Patience Jonathan’s funds forfeiture suit to May 22
*Sierra Leonian donates to IDPs in Abuja
*440,000 candidates write JAMB exams on day two
*ERA urges Niger Delta governors to establish labs for oil spills management
*Court transfers alleged bribery case involving 23 INEC officials to Port Harcourt
*HYPREP approves one-year plan for Ogoni clean-up
*Clearing agents shun Nigerian ports, borders over infrastructure decay
*Suspects in assassination attempt on Melaye get bail
*South Africa court hears case on Zuma confidence vote
*Zambian opposition leader in custody for another week
*Gunfire heard in two Ivory Coast cities in grip of mutiny

VANGUARD
*Budget 2017: FG, OPEC differ on oil output
*Niger Again: 5 die in herdsmen, villagers’ clash
*N13bn Ikoyi cash: EFCC takes over NIA’s bank accounts
*House c’ttee gives Kemi Adeosu 24 hrs to face panel
*Leaders Nigeria needs, by CAN President
*Naira stable at N385/$ as CBN injects $453.3m
*‘Isiaka Adeleke may have died of over-dose of drugs’

THE SUN
*Saraki, Dogara fault anti-corruption war
*NASS undermines anti-graft war –Sagay
*APC can’t fix Nigeria’s problem in 8 years -Oyegun
*Water scarcity hits Calabar
*Bayelsa native bags Lincoln University First Class
*LAUTECH students on rampage
*Ikpeazu, Ogbulafor, other Abia politicians may join APC
*Kalu tasks Ikpeazu on good governance
*Maritime surveillance: Osinbajo doing well –Defence minister
*N’Assembly yet to transmit 2017 budget to Presidency
*NNPC to resume oil exploration in Chad basin
*Late passage of budget, threat to FG’s economy recovery plan –OPS, experts
*PIB: Senate tackles Kachikwu
*Freight forwarders, truckers differ on service withdrawal

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