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Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, June 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- Less than 48 hours after the Federal Government offered to hold peace talks with rampaging militants in the Niger Delta, the Niger Delta Avengers, on Wednesday morning, blew up another Chevron oil well.

The Niger Delta Avengers claimed responsibility for the series of attacks on oil facilities in the region. (The Punch)

-- Shock gave way to palpable grief. Still, disbelief was etched on the faces of the members of his family: Super Eagles' former Captain and Coach, Stephen Okechukwu Keshi, could not have died.

At his Benin home where he died at the age of 54, his mother and other family members await an autopsy. For now, they do not know the cause of the football legend's death. (The Guardian)

-- The Presidency, on Wednesday, announced the take-off of recruitment of 500,000 unemployed graduates, who would benefit from the 500 billion naira (more than 2.5 million U.S. dollars) social investment program of the All Progressives Congress, APC-led government. (Vanguard) Endit