Top news items of major Nigerian media outlets

The following are highlights of leading Nigerian media outlets on Tuesday:

-- The Presidency has begun an investigation to determine the level of complicity of heads of some government's parastatals and agencies in the "mutilated" 2016 budget sent to President Muhammadu Buhari by the National Assembly, The PUNCH has learnt.

Buhari has refused to sign the document, claiming that the federal lawmakers had doctored the fiscal bill. (The Punch)

-- The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) Court of Justice on Monday said it has jurisdiction to hear a case filed by the former National Security Adviser (NSA), retired Colonel Mohammed Sambo Dasuki, against the federal government over his continued detention without trial since December 2015. (Daily Trust)

-- The sector that contributes 57.9 percent of Nigeria's Gross Domestic Product is at risk of closure, as the unending fuel crisis witnessed across the country has started to take its toll on small businesses in Abuja and other parts of the country, since majority of the businesses were now struggling to remain open.

Specifically, most of them, mainly informal businesses, which the National Bureau of Statistics, NBS, said accounted for 57.9 per cent of Nigeria's rebased GDP, had to shut down their businesses over non-availability of power supply and scarcity of petroleum to power their generators.(Vanguard) Endit