Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

The following are news highlights in leading Nigerian media outlets on Friday.

-- President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday signed the Paris Agreement on Climate Change in New York, saying it demonstrated Nigeria's commitment to the global effort to reverse its effects, according to the presidential spokesman Femi Adesina. (Daily Trust)

-- The National Economic Council, which comprises Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and 36 state governors, has endorsed plans by the Federal Government to sell some national assets as part of efforts to address the current economic recession in the country. (The Punch)

-- Governors on Thursday disagreed with the leadership of the National Assembly over their call for the redeployment or outright removal of two ministers for their inability to effectively manage the economy, which had since slipped into recession.

It will be recalled that many of the outspoken senators, fresh from their vacation, on Wednesday, had called for the outright sack or redeployment of the Minister of Budget and National Planning, Udoma Udo Udoma, and his Finance counterpart, Kemi Adeosun, who are saddled with the task of managing the ailing economy as a means of expediting its recovery from recession. (Vanguard) Endit