Major news items in leading Nigerian media outlets on Sunday

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

-- President Muhammadu Buhari has appealed to all Nigerians to continue to believe that the change promised by his government will come to fruition.

President Buhari made the appeal in his Easter message to the nation. (Daily Trust)

-- The Federal Government has started the process of verifying the claim by a suspected female suicide bomber who was intercepted in northern Cameroon on Friday before she could blow herself up. The suspect claimed she was one of the 219 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in Chibok, Borno State in April 2014.

The Federal Government is arranging to send some members of the Chibok community to Cameroon in order to verify the claim. (The Punch)

-- Chelsea star Mikel Obi has charged the Super Eagles to give everything when they face Egypt for the second time in three days in Alexandria in their quest to qualify Nigeria for next year's African Cup Of Nations (AFCON) in Gabon.

Egypt remains top of their qualifying group with seven points, two points more than Nigeria, after a 1-1 draw in Kaduna on Friday. (Vanguard)

--Nigeria's national oil company, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, was accused by the Office of the Auditor General of the Federation of not remitting a whopping 3.2 trillion naira (more than 16 billion U.S dollars), being a part of oil minerals revenue collected on behalf of the country in 2014, to the government. (The Guardian) Endit