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Top news items in major Nigerian media outlets

Xinhua, February 24, 2017 Adjust font size:

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

-- The Central Bank of Nigeria on Thursday reintroduced charges on cash deposits in banks which would take effect at different dates in different parts of the country. (Vanguard)

-- Some hoodlums on Thursday took advantage of a protest by some students in Abuja to invade a regional office of South African telecommunications giant, MTN, where they vandalized office equipment and looted phone sets, laptops and personal effects.

Recently, Nigerians in South Africa were objects of widespread and gruesome xenophobic attacks. (The Punch)

-- Local currency naira has been gaining steadily against the U.S. dollar in three days of trading at the parallel market.

The dollar sold for 510 naira on Tuesday, dropping to 505 naira Wednesday and fell to about 470 naira at the end of trading on Thursday as more people trooped to the market to sell their foreign currency. (Daily Trust)

-- Super Eagles' coach Gernot Rohr has denied a story that says he has put a lid on the number of players from the Chinese League he will invite to the national team.

Rohr on Thursday tweeted "my attention has been drawn to a story quoting me as setting a limit on the number of players to be invited from the Chinese League. I do not know where this statement credited to me came from. I have had a very good and cordial relationship with the media." (The Guardian) Endit