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Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, November 29, 2016 Adjust font size:

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

-- President Muhammadu Buhari will present the 2017 budget proposal to a joint session of the National Assembly on December 6, Daily Trust learnt late Monday.

Buhari and his team, it was gathered, have concluded arrangements for the budget to be presented on that day. (Daily Trust)

-- The country may be plunged into another round of excruciating fuel scarcity in the next couple of weeks, as oil marketers disclosed that they are running out of patience over the Federal Government's refusal to pay the 1.7 billion U.S. dollars debt owed to oil marketers since May 2015. (Vanguard)

-- The Federal Government may soon start filing charges relating to breach of code of conduct for public officers against some judges, according to an investigation by The PUNCH.

The newspaper gathered that the Federal Government was finalizing its plans to arraign the judges before the Code of Conduct Tribunal. (The Punch) Endit