Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

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

-- Goods and services produced in Nigeria between July and September dropped as the nation grapples with economic slowdown.

Companies and other economic agents in the country are producing far below their capacities as Nigeria's economic slump deepened with oil production falling and factory output hard hit by shortage of foreign exchange, data released on Monday by the National Bureau of Statistics have suggested. (Vanguard)

-- The Nigerian government on Tuesday said vandalism and sabotage of critical oil and gas installations in the Niger Delta were the immediate causes of the lingering recession into the third quarter.

The National Economic Management Team headed by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo also identified what it called continued out-sized influence of the oil and gas sector on the rest of the economy as a remote cause. (Daily Trust)

-- The Chief of Army Staff Tukur Buratai on Monday in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital, unveiled the poster bearing photographs of 55 most wanted Boko Haram members, including their supposed leader, Abubakar Shekau. (The Punch) Endit