SOME NEWS MAKING HEADLINES IN NIGERIA NEWSPAPERS ON 11TH JANUARY 2017

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·         Jonathan distances self from Malabu Oil deal

·         Reps to wade into FRCN edict on churches, mosques today
·         Buhari kicks off revitalisation of 10,000 primary health care centres
·         Reps reconvene, assure citizens on 2017 budget, end to recession
·         Senate sacks Ndume as Majority Leader, elects Lawan
·         New bird flu strain hits poultry industry, 3.5m birds infected
·         Unsold goods threaten jobs as inventory hits N100 billion
·         Senate begins work on laws to create 7.5m jobs
·         Secret trial of Kanu, others begins
·         Government plans N510 billion budget support for states
·         Nigeria 14th largest UN troops contributing nation, says report
·         DSS arrests four suspected Boko Haram terrorists in Lagos, nine others   nationwide

·         Rivers PDP, APC disagree over alleged assault on INEC official during legislative polls
·         My stand on $1.3b Malabu oil deal bribe, by Jonathan
·         Couple get quintuplets 10 years after marriage
·         APC Senate caucus sacks leader Ali Ndume
·         Olubadan to probe Iyaloja’s role in market crisis
·         Gunmen kill 300-level Ondo varsity student1
·         Senate eyes 7.5m jobs with economic bills
·         Govt: Osun pensioners paid N1.5b in Dec.
·         Adeosun: $300m Diaspora bond out in March
·         Fuel scarcity looms, says IPMAN
·         Govt hires firms to monitor N510b budget facility
·         Pension fund grows by N1.25tr in one year
·         ABCON seeks exchange rates harmonisation
·         Contentious FRC regulation: Nigerians react to director’s sack
·         Passion for cooking
·         Budget 2017: Dogara accepts Buhari’s assent conditions
·         Fighting recession with borrowing, budgeting
·         How to make 2017 count
·         Illegal parcels
·         Deals that ‘ll shape capital market in 2017
·         Our Girls; Build real bridges; Slaps injure eyes & ears




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