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Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, March 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are highlights of major Nigerian media outlets on Tuesday.

-- Nigeria's policy makers have begun a retreat aimed at formulating measures which are expected to lift the economy out of distress. (Daily Trust)

-- Concerned about the poor state of electricity supply in the country barely three years after the completion of the privatization of the power sector, President Muhammadu Buhari has publicly admitted that the federal government is in dilemma on what to do to get improved power. (The Guardian)

-- No fewer than 100 makeshift structures were razed on Monday after fire ravaged a part of Small Kuramo in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

Two people were burned to death in the inferno. (The Punch)

-- The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has said that it will not return to Rivers until the state is conducive to conduct elections.

The INEC spoke as the heavy shootings that characterized weekend's federal and some state legislative rerun elections in Rivers, on Monday, petered out and became a verbal warfare among stakeholders in the polls. (Vanguard) Endit