Newspapers Review September 16, 2015

In today's newspapers review, Don’t accept Fayose’s rams, Imams tell Muslims, Tukur, ex-PDP chair, quits politics at 80, FG borrows N882bn to finance 2015 budget, 16 die, 172 hospitalized as cholera hits Maiduguri IDPs camp, Northern leaders reject Jonathan’s confab report, Presidency issues 7-day deadline on workers’ pay, Ambode seeks re-ordering of budget, Lagos directs schools to screen visitors, Okorocha denies selling government agencies, Rivers: INEC Says Only 293,072 Voters Were Accredited During April 11 Guber Polls, Gov Ambode Calls For Budget Re-ordering.

                                                     Punch

• Don’t accept Fayose’s rams, Imams tell Muslims

• Nigeria destined to fail –Fani-Kayode

• Why I shunned Nigeria – Jordon Ibe

• Fire guts shopping mall, bank in Lagos

• The Mecca crane crash and 9/11 

• Tukur, ex-PDP chair, quits politics at 80 

• FG plans special fund for roads, power

• FG borrows N882bn to finance 2015 budget

                                                         Vanguard

• 16 die, 172 hospitalized as cholera hits Maiduguri IDPs camp

• 20m Nigerians infected with hepatitis virus — Expert

• MASSOB breeding kidnappers and armed robbers – Anambra police boss

• Northern leaders reject Jonathan’s confab report

• 2015 budget: Ambode requests additional N24bn

                                                          The Nation

• Presidency issues 7-day deadline on workers’ pay 

• Buhari: Boko Haram demands release of its bomb maker

• Troops rescue women, children

• The Sun DMD to kidnappers: release my wife 

• Buhari urges journalists to join anti-graft war

• Osinbajo: Fed Govt to adopt zero-based budgeting

• Ambode seeks re-ordering of budget

                                                            National Mirror

• Lagos directs schools to screen visitors

• ERA demands $28m for families of Azuzuama explosion

• Okorocha denies selling government agencies

• Wada pledges to consolidate gains of democracy

• 17 Giesi princes jostle for Ooni stool

                                                         ThisDay

• Buhari: Govt in Talks with Boko Haram on Chibok Girls

• ICPC Warns State Govs Not to Tamper with Bailout Funds

• Osinbajo: FG to Adopt Zero-based Budgeting for 2016

• NNPC to Review PSC Fiscal Terms with IOCs

• EFCC Arraigns Four for N1.2bn Pension Scam

• Military Clears More Boko Haram Enclaves, Rescues Women and Children

• Fayose Abrogates Free Education Policy, Meets Teachers

• Presidency Orders Payment of Public Sector Workers’ Salaries

• Court Stops Probe of Amnesty Fund, Bars EFCC, ICPC, DSS from Further Arrest

• Ajimobi, Aregbesola Restate Commitment to Regional Integration at Western Post Launch

• Boko Haram: Amnesty Int’l Beams Its Spotlight on Camerounian Military

• PDP: Okorocha Should Be Blamed for Igbos Fate in Buhari’s Govt

• Rivers: INEC Says Only 293,072 Voters Were Accredited During April 11 Guber Polls

•  PDP: DSS Invasion of Akwa Ibom Govt House, a Political Coup

                                                          Leadership

• FG To Adopt Zero-based Budget For 2016 – Osinbajo

• Gov Ambode Calls For Budget Re-ordering

• PMB’s Visit To Cross River Excites Elders

• Obasanjo, Soyinka, Others Make List Of Those Who Inspire Nigeria

• C’ttee Indicts Jang, Says Ex-Gov Went Away With 15 Govt Vehicles

• Emir Of Zazzau Decries Drug Addiction Among Youths

• Gov Bagudu Swears In 20 Caretaker Chairmen, Appoints New HoS