Find out what is making headlines all over the country from the covers of The Punch, Vanguard, The Guardian and more.
For today, April 12 2016:
THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER
National Assembly pads CCB’s budget by over N4 billion
As more details of the alterations the National Assembly made in the 2016 budget emerged yesterday, an insight was given into how the budget of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) was padded by over N4 billion while the recurrent expenditure was upped by another N224 million. READ MORE
As more details of the alterations the National Assembly made in the 2016 budget emerged yesterday, an insight was given into how the budget of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) was padded by over N4 billion while the recurrent expenditure was upped by another N224 million. READ MORE
ECOWAS Court rules in favour of Dasuki over illegal detention by government
Seeking to enforce his fundamental rights, former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki yesterday got the approval of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court in his suit against the Federal Government over his alleged unlawful arrest and detention without trial since December last year. READ MORE
Seeking to enforce his fundamental rights, former National Security Adviser (NSA) Col. Sambo Dasuki yesterday got the approval of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court in his suit against the Federal Government over his alleged unlawful arrest and detention without trial since December last year. READ MORE
How Jonathan paid N400m into Metuh’s corporate account, by witnessA
defence witness in the ongoing trial of the National Publicity
Secretary, People’s Democratic Party ( PDP ), Chief Olisa Metuh,
yesterday narrated how former President Goodluck Jonathan paid N400
million into Metuh’s account. READ MORE
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VANGUARD NEWSPAPER
Senate gives Buhari final warning over budget 2016ABUJA—The
Senate, yesterday, gave what it described as a final warning to the
presidency on its dealings with the legislative branch of government,
affirming that it would no longer tolerate the presidency blaming the
legislature for its failures. READ MORE
$2.1bn arms probe: We’ve jurisdiction to hear Dasuki’s suit, ECOWAS court tells FGABUJA—
The Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS) court,
yesterday, told the Federal Government that it had jurisdiction to
determine the legality or otherwise of the continued detention of the
former National Security Adviser, NSA, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd). Col.
Sambo Dasuki (rtd.) READ MORE
Alleged N400m fraud: Jonathan asked Metuh to submit his company’s account —WitnessABUJA
— The embattled National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic
Party, PDP, Chief Olisa Metuh, yesterday, opened his defence to the
seven-count charge the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC,
preferred against him. READ MORE
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THE NATION NEWSPAPER
Senators to Buhari: enough is enough on budget rowSENATORS
yesterday advised the Presidency to come clean on the 2016 Budget. It
should admit its errors and President Muhammadu Buhari should sign the
document “without any further delay”, they said. READ MORE
China/Nigeria Business Forum meeting opensPresident
Muhammadu Buhari, who arrived in China yesterday on a week-long visit,
will begin his programme with the opening ceremony of the Business Forum
of the China/Nigeria Production Capacity Cooperation. READ MORE
Shiite/Army clash: 347 bodies buriedNo
fewer than 347 bodies were buried in a mass grave after the December
12, last year clash between members of the Islamic Movement in Nigeria,
otherwise known as the Shiite, and soldiers. READ MORE
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THE PUNCH NEWSPAPER
Budget: Heads may roll in govt parastatals, agencies
The Presidency has begun an investigation to determine the level of complicity of heads of some government’s parastatals and agencies in the “mutilated” 2016 budget sent to President Muhammadu Buhari by the National Assembly, The PUNCH has learnt. READ MORE
The Presidency has begun an investigation to determine the level of complicity of heads of some government’s parastatals and agencies in the “mutilated” 2016 budget sent to President Muhammadu Buhari by the National Assembly, The PUNCH has learnt. READ MORE
Two die, UNIPORT shut as students protest fee paymentTWO
students of the University of Port Harcourt were on Monday feared
killed during a protest over an alleged policy by the management of the
institution that school fees must be paid before they would be allowed
to take their first semester examinations. READ MORE
Contractors paid N1bn into Sule Lamido’s accounts –EFCCThe
Economic and Financial Crimes Commission on April 11, 2016 presented
more witnesses in the ongoing trial of a former governor of Jigawa
State, Sule Lamido, his two sons, Aminu and Mustapha, and two others
before Justice Adeniyi Ademola of a Federal High Court sitting in
Maitama, Abuja. READ MORE
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