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Top news items of Nigerian major media outlets

Xinhua, April 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- In a bid to save his position as the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, on Monday, begged the Code of Conduct Tribunal sitting in Abuja to reconsider its decision to conduct day-to-day hearing on the 13-count criminal charge the Federal Government entered against him. (Vanguard)

-- The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has arrested Warimopei Dudafa, a former Special Assistant on Domestic Affairs to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan.

-- Dudafa, alongside Jonathan's ex Aide-de-Camp, Col. Ojogbane Adegbe, was accused of giving 10 billion naira (50.2 million U.S dollars) to delegates at the presidential primary of the Peoples Democratic Party in December 2014 in which Jonathan emerged as the winner. (The Punch) Endit