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Major news items in leading Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, March 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

The following are news highlights of leading Nigerian media outlets on Tuesday.

--Former President Olusegun Obasanjo has said the Nigerian nation is winning the war against Boko Haram insurgency that has claimed many lives and property in the North-East sub-region of the country.

He said that the military and other security agencies were on the ascendancy over the forces of destruction, menace and dangers of terrorism and insurgency that has lasted for over six years in the country. (The Guardian)

-- Worried by the unending nationwide fuel scarcity, the Senate, on Monday, summoned the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, to appear before it Tuesday. (Vanguard)

-- Cameroonian health and security officials on Monday started the treatment of an arrested suicide bomber who claimed to be one of the 219 missing Chibok schoolgirls from Nigeria. (Daily Trust) Endit