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Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, April 22, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- In a stormy closed-door session on Thursday, the Senate resolved to persuade President Muhammadu Buhari to sign the 2016 budget and later submit an amendment proposal to the National Assembly to correct identified lapses.

The meeting, which was characterized by massive criticisms of the manner in which the budget was processed by the appropriation committees of the National Assembly, was said to have resolved to give President Buhari 30 days within which to consider the request of the National Assembly and sign the budget. (The Guardian)

-- Former Finance Minister Esther Nenadi Usman was on Thursday taken into custody by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly receiving 2.5 billion naira (12.5 million U.S. dollars) of the 4 billion naira (more than 20 million dollars) taken out of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) on the orders of the former National Security Adviser, Sambo Dasuki, in the heat of the 2015 election.

Usman was the Director of Finance of the People's Democratic Party Presidential Campaign and was said to have access to huge cash, some of which the EFCC said came from the CBN. (Vanguard)

-- The nation may soon be thrown into a total blackout as electricity workers are planning to shut power transmission nationwide over breaches in labor issues and takeover of the defunct Power Holding Company of Nigeria headquarters in Abuja.

A key staff member privy to the crisis at the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) told Daily Trust on Thursday that government officials in a failed attempt to resolve issues chose to engage the Senior Staff Association of Electricity and Allied Companies instead of the National Union of Electricity Employees. (Daily Trust) Endit