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Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, February 19, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- The Nigerian government is set to invest some of the looted funds recently recovered from former Nigerian officials on its social intervention programs.

A top official told The Punch that the 9 million U.S. dollars recovered from a former head of the national oil corporation and the 153 million dollars forfeited by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources would be immediately used to fund the welfare scheme for the poor. (The Punch)

-- The presidency has maintained sealed lips regarding the precise date President Muhammadu Buhari will return from his medical vacation in London. This is even as the president's stay at the Nigeria House in Britain had hit 32 days on Sunday.

Presidential spokesman Femi Adesina said the president would not sneak into the country upon his return, adding "the entire Nigeria is the constituency of President Muhammadu Buhari. His return to the country will not be a secret thing. When the president returns, the whole country will know." (Daily Trust) Endit