Find out what is making headlines all over the country from major national dailies today, April 11 2016
VANGUARD NEWSPAPER
2016 Budget palaver: Presidency gives fresh conditions for assent:
ABUJA — THE Presidency has confronted the leadership of the National Assembly, NASS, with details of distortions orchestrated by the lawmakers in the 2016 budget and asked them to urgently address them in the interest of the nation. READ MORE
Adeosun sets out plan to restructure economy:
The Minister of Finance, Kemi Adeosun, has set out the government’s plan to reset Nigeria’s economy with structured borrowing, targeted investment and diversified growth. READ MORE
IPOB, Igbo youths, women fault DSS claim on killing of northerners:
The Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Igbo Youths Movement, IYM and the Igbo Women Association, IWA, yesterday denied the claim by the Department of State Services, DSS, that five northerners were killed and buried in a forest in Abia State, saying that it was a ploy by the Federal Government to engineer another round of mass killing of Igbo in the north. READ MORE
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THE GUARDIAN NEWSPAPER
Ijaw youths warn EFCC against alleged plan to arrest Jonathan:
As the four-day burial programme for the late former governor of Bayelsa State, Chief Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, ended yesterday with a thanksgiving service in Ammasoma, the Ijaw Youths Council (IYC) cautioned against an alleged plot by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to arrest former President Goodluck Jonathan. READ MORE
Presidency, National Assembly move to end rift over 2016 budget:
A move to harmonise the contentious issues between the Presidency and the National Assembly over the 2016 budget is set to be fruitful soon. READ MORE
NFF crisis: Keyamo asks government to arrest Giwa if he attempts to breach law:
Counsel to the Amaju Pinnick-led Nigerian Football Federation (NFF), Festus Keyamo, yesterday clarified that no court sacked his clients and installed Mr. Chris Giwa as the NFF president. READ MORE
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THE PUNCH NEWSPAPER
Buhari rejects N’Assembly’s peace deal on budget:
There were indications on Sunday that the National Assembly’s peace moves with the executive over the 2016 budget crisis had flopped. READ MORE
PDP ex-ministers, elders convene meeting over Sheriff:
Former ministers, who served under the Peoples Democratic Party-controlled Federal Government, have convened an emergency meeting, where the plan by the National Chairman of the party, Senator Ali Modu Sheriff, to stay beyond May 21 will be discussed. READ MORE
Bakare flays leaders for politicising Chibok girls’ abduction:
The General Overseer, Latter Rain Assembly, Lagos, Pastor Tunde Bakare, has lampooned politicians and political parties for using the abduction of 219 Chibok schoolgirls to score cheap political points. READ MORE
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THE NATION NEWSPAPER
Budget 2016 crisis rages on:
House of Representatives Appropriation Committee Chairman Abdulmumin Jibrin reacted angrily yesterday to the report that President Muhammadu Buhari was stopped by ministers from signing the 2016 Appropriation Bill because of its “mutilation” by lawmakers. READ MORE
EFCC probes clues in payment of N1b to ‘ghost’ workers:
Detectives are probing fresh clues on the alleged diversion of public funds to pay 23,000 ghost workers. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) was shocked to discover that most of the slush accounts used for the pay fraud have either irregular Bank Verification Number (BVN) or no BVN at all, it was learnt yesterday. READ MORE
Oyo workers happy with new govt deal
The Chairman, Nigerian Labour Congress (NLC) in Oyo State, Waheed Olojede, spoke yesterday of workers’ excitement with the new deal of using the state’s federal allocation for payment of salaries. READ MORE
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BUSINESS DAY NEWSPAPER
Queues will return soon, say stakeholders:
The last may not have been heard of the harrowing experiences of Nigerians over fuel scarcity which has almost paralysed economic activities for the past two weeks. Stakeholders in the downstream sector of the oil and gas industry insist that the Nigerians would sooner or later return to the filling stations, queuing for fuel. The… READ MORE
Formal structure for apprenticeship may improve youth employment, say experts
A formal structure to replace today’s largely informal apprenticeship system may improve youth employment rates, experts say. The informal sector is the base of the societal pyramid, largely unorganised, overly boisterous and hardly bankable part of the economy and often regarded as the underground economy. Two striking informal hubs which train expert but mostly uncertified technicians… READ MORE
Act of 2004 opens way for CBN to unfreeze FX markets:
Nigerian businesses and manufacturers may soon get some relief as the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) moves to reform and restore liquidity and two-way quotes to the autonomous foreign exchange (FX) markets which have been gummed up for more than a year. Sources tell BusinessDay that the need to activate provisions of Foreign Exchange
