Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets
Xinhua, October 17, 2016 Adjust font size:
The following are news highlights in major Nigerian media outlets on Monday.
-- The leadership of the National Assembly will soon introduce measures aimed at streamlining running costs of lawmakers, Daily Trust has learnt.
Sources told our correspondents that the measure would also affect some management staff. (Daily Trust)
-- Emotions ran high on Sunday in Abuja when the 21 Chibok girls, who were released by Boko Haram militants on Thursday, reunited with their parents at a thanksgiving service.
Parents and a few invited guests shed tears as the few lucky girls, who were among the over 200 schoolgirls of the Government Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State, kidnapped on April 14, 2014, locked themselves in warm embrace. (The Punch)
-- Herdsmen, between Saturday and yesterday, allegedly killed no fewer than 20 persons after laying siege to Godogodo, a semi-urban settlement in Jema'a local government area of Kaduna State.
Policemen and those who managed to escape the onslaught, said Godogodo was razed, with the casualty figure put at 20, aside from those injured. (Vanguard) Endit