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Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, February 21, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- The Nigerian Senate on Monday said top officials of the Central Bank of Nigeria are billionaires, and asked the country's anti-graft agency, the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, to go after them. (Daily Trust)

-- The Central Bank of Nigeria has rolled out a new foreign exchange window to stem the tide of demand pressures which had battered the local currency Naira in the unofficial foreign exchange market.

But the new measures, which increased the supply of foreign exchange resources to the market, came on stream Monday, just as the fortunes of naira nose-dived further in the parallel market, closing 520 to the U.S. dollars. (Vanguard)

-- The organized labor in Nigeria has condemned alleged plan by the government to sack 3,500 public workers under the guise that their appointments were irregular and unauthorized. (The Guardian) Endit