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Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, April 1, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

- President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday ruled out the possibility of signing the 2016 Appropriation Bill passed by the National Assembly last week early as expected by Nigerians and other stakeholders.

He said before he would append his signature to the document, he would do a ministry-by-ministry review of the budget to ensure that what had been returned to him was the same with what his administration submitted to the National Assembly. (The Punch)

- The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation continues to withhold billions of U.S. dollars in oil sale revenues from the treasury under President Muhammadu Buhari's administration, a new report said. (Daily Trust)

- The nationwide power crisis being experienced in the country worsened, Thursday, with a total system collapse at exactly 12:58 p.m..

This came on a day Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, reassured Nigerians that the 10,000 megawatts of electricity generation target set by the present administration would be attained by the end of 2019. (Vanguard) Endit