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Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, May 23, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Suspected militants have attacked and set ablaze a pipeline belonging to the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) at Ikienghenbiri community in Southern Ijaw Local Council of Bayelsa State. A five-kilometer Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) Premuim Motor Spirit (PMS) pipeline that serves the Machiver jetty in Calabar, Cross River State, has also been vandalized. (The Guardian)

-- The Nigeria Labor Congress (NLC) on Sunday suspended the nationwide strike it embarked upon last Wednesday to protest the hike in the price of petrol by the Federal Government.

The government in a statement last night welcomed the decision by NLC and expressed readiness to return to the negotiation table. (Daily Trust)

-- Heavily armed policemen have taken over the national headquarters of the Peoples Democratic Party in Abuja.

This step, which was noticed on Sunday, was said to have been carried out by the police to prevent the breakdown of law and order at the secretariat. (The Punch) Endit