Newspapers Review August 26, 2015

Today's newspapers review, Rivers tribunal: 16 senators, Reps petition Buhari, CBN grants national banking licence to Fortis MFB, Biafra matter settled in 1970, ACF tells Igbo, A’Ibom owes banks N64.5bn – Commissioner, FG to slash Federal lawmakers’ salaries, Fani-Kayode to Fashola: Make peace with Tinubu or prepare for war, How Parradang Landed In Trouble Over Special Promotion Of Officers, Probe Jonathan’s govt. fully or forget corruption war, Buhari’s associate tells president, APGA increases governorship form to N6m in Kogi, Bayelsa, Nigeria to cut senators, reps’ jumbo pay as Buhari fumes, No Lawmaker Should Earn Above N1m –RMAFC,  How Lagos Assembly Matron Died

                                                      Punch

• NDLEA probes Arik attendant caught with N105m cocaine

• Osun judge not a husband snatcher – Group

• Rivers tribunal: 16 senators, Reps petition Buhari

• Foods that hurt your brain

• CBN grants national banking licence to Fortis MFB

• Biafra matter settled in 1970, ACF tells Igbo

• Yobe teenage bomber kills pregnant woman, five others

• National ID will complement voter card, says Buhari

• Bayelsa may probe former commissioner – Deputy gov

• A’Ibom owes banks N64.5bn – Commissioner

                                                  Vanguard

• What’s the point of a first lady?

• Buhari blames escalation of subsidies on past govts

• 14-yr-old boy kills brother with dad’s gun while ‘acting’ movie

• FG to slash Federal lawmakers’ salaries

• Man seeks divorce over wife’s sexual escapades on social media

• London police arrest another Arik Air crew with cocaine

• How Adoke stopped Abba Moro from hijacking 1,600 NIS jobs

• Banks in dilemma over idle $5bn deposits

• Ambode raises concern over crime rate at regional ports

• Okowa inaugurates job, wealth creation scheme

• Fani-Kayode to Fashola: Make peace with Tinubu or prepare for war

                                                                     Leadership

• ‘Endemic Corruption May Change Buhari’s Choice Of Ministers’

• ACF Lambasts Igbo Leaders Over Biafran Movement

• Gov Al-Makura Laments Nasarawa’s Closeness To FCT

• ‘Kano To Generate N10bn Monthly Through Single Treasury Account’

• NLC Declares Support For PMB’s Anti-corruption War

• How Parradang Landed In Trouble Over Special Promotion Of Officers

• Saraki’s Visit To Borno To Complement Buhari’s Efforts – Group

• Oshiomhole: PMB’s Critics Are Beneficiaries Of Jonathan’s Corrupt Administration

                                                           Premium Times

• Probe Jonathan’s govt. fully or forget corruption war, Buhari’s associate tells president    

• Why ex-militants’ foreign tuition, allowances are delayed, says Amnesty office

• APGA increases governorship form to N6m in Kogi, Bayelsa

• Contract Inflation:BPP has saved Nigeria N659 bn, says DG

• Nigeria to cut senators, reps’ jumbo pay as Buhari fumes

• Despite Jonathan’s 16 years in power, ex-president’s Otuoke community begs for potable water

• Buhari raises 13-member panel to probe weapon procurement since 2007   

                                                   Daily Independent

• Turkish President Mandates PM To Form Interim Gov’t For Snap Election

•  Assad Says Insurgents “Much More” Dangerous Than Israel

• France Formally Opens Terrorism Probe In Train Attack

• Siasia Not Our Member –Bayelsa PDP

• Buhari Blasts Past Govts Over Oil Subsidy Scams

• No Lawmaker Should Earn Above N1m –RMAFC

•  How Lagos Assembly Matron Died

• 8,700 Regional Troops Set To Begin Combat Mission Against B’Haram

                                                          ThisDay

• With Slowing Growth, Oil Slump, Petrol Subsidy May be Ready to Go

• NNPC Sets New Terms for Crude Swaps

• UK Border Force Arrest Arik Crew Member in London for Drugs Possession

• RMAFC: New Salary Package for Political Office Holders Ready Next Month

• Teenagers Bomb Damaturu, Kill Pregnant Woman, Themselves, Three Others

• Don’t Negotiate with Boko Haram, ACF Warns FG

• FG Saves N659.88bn through Procurement Diligence

• 14 Women Die in Niger as Boats Capsize

•  NLC: Kachikwu Contradicting Buhari’s Stance on Fuel Subsidy

• Mimiko Raps Buhari over Choice of INEC Boss

• Corruption: NLC to Support Buhari with Nationwide Rally September 10

• Blogger Remanded over Malicious Publication against Fidelity Bank MD

• APC to Monitor Buhar’s Compliance with Manifesto

• Rivers Election: Wike Asks Tribunal to Strike out Peterside’s Reply

•  Election Tribunal Dismisses Case against Kwankwaso

•  Rivers Lawmakers Petition Buhari, Allege Politicisation of Security Agencies

• Bakassi: Stop Disenfranching Us, Ikang Leaders Tell INEC

                                                      The Nation

• 19 Defence, Service chiefs to face arms deals panel

• No federal lawmaker should earn more than N1m, says RMAFC

• Nigerians abroad remitted $20b in 2014, says Osinbajo

• 8,700 troops to battle Boko Haram 

• Police deploy team to enforce withdrawal of security from VIPs

• Two injured, three buses burnt in tanker fire

• Army of aggrieved officers and men

• Fed Govt owes PFAs N35b pension contribution, says NLC

• NERC denies abolishing meter fixed charge  

• Ecobank ordered to pay Skye Bank N629m APG

•  ‘Nigeria spends N16b yearly importing tomatoes’

•  Our grouse against INEC chair, by Afenifere, Mimiko 

                                                      National Mirror

•  VOICE: Expanding Nigeria’s fashion industry

• Aviation industry crucial to FG’s reform agenda – Perm. Sec

• I wrote my first song at 10 –BMG

• Phytonutrients in fruits and vegetables

• Again, London police arrest Arik Air crew with cocaine

• ACF warns Ndigbo: Your Biafra war agenda will fail again

• Skolombo Boys: Ayade donates 14 patrol vehicles to police

• Ekiti Appoints 13 Executive Secretaries

• Nigerians now better under Buhari —Oshiomhole

• Ex-police officers protest against PenCom in Kwara