Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

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

-- President Muhammadu Buhari will on Tuesday meet with critical stakeholders in the Niger Delta with a view to find lasting solutions to the crisis in the region.

The nation's oil production had been reportedly halted as a result of persistent attacks on oil and gas installations by Niger Delta militants in the region. (Daily Trust)

-- Despite the crash in the prices of crude oil in the international market, President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday stated the oil and gas industry still remains a critical panacea to Nigeria's economic woes.

He said that though the country is diversifying its economy through agriculture, solid minerals amongst others, there are still need for a virile and efficient oil and gas industry to take care of Nigeria's foreign exchange requirements. (Vanguard)

-- The National Assembly on Thursday transferred the power of the president to control the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) and the Code of Conduct Tribunal (CCT) to itself.

At the conclusion of work on the bill to amend the CCB and CCT law, the legislature successfully altered Section 18 (2) to enable it to confer additional powers on the CCB instead of the president. (The Guardian)

-- Operatives of the Joint Task Force, also known as Operation Delta Safe, disclosed on Thursday that it discovered a total of 23 decomposing human skulls and a human skeleton during raids on militant camps belonging to suspected members of the Bakassi Strike Force in Bakassi and Akpabuyo local government areas of Cross River State. (The Punch) Endit