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Major news items in leading Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, March 17, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are highlights of leading Nigerian media outlets on Thursday.

-- At least 22 worshippers, including the bombers, were killed in Wednesday's early morning twin suicide bombings at Molai Umarari village, behind the Molai Hospital, on the outskirts of Maiduguri, the Borno State capital. (Vanguard)

-- Nigeria's plan of producing over 2.2 million barrels per day, the reason for which 45 licences were issued by the Department of Petroleum Resources between 2002 and 2004 for the establishment of private refineries in the country, may remain a pipe dream never to be realized. (The Guardian)

-- The trial of former Chief of Defense Staff Air Chief Marshal Alex Badeh opened in Abuja Wednesday with the first prosecution witness narrating how 558.2 million naira (more than 2.8 million U.S. dollars) belonging to the Air Force was converted to dollars monthly and taken to Badeh's house. (Daily Trust)

-- The Senate and House Joint Committee on Appropriation has detected fresh errors in the 2016 budget, investigations by the Punch has revealed. (The Punch) Endit