News Headline For 24th April

THE NATION

Battle to recover $15b gas sales dividends begins

• EFCC probe ex-minister, ex-NNPC chiefs, others
• Part of withdrawn $7.85b `blown on 2011 poll`

DETECTIVES are probing the whereabouts of $15.8billion Nigeria Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) Limited dividends, The Nation learned at the weekend.

NEW TELEGRAPH

B’Haram: FG places 1,000 orphans in foster care

• VSF pays families N14,000 monthly per child
• Donors redeem N30bn to help insurgency victims
• Two Army Generals escape terrorist mines

No fewer than 1,000 children who lost their parents to Boko Haram’s insurgency in the North-East have been placed on the Foster Care Programme of Victims Support Fund (VSF).

THE PUNCH

NIA finance officials to appear before Osinbajo panel today

The panel set up by President Muhammadu Buhari to investigate the suspended Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency, Amb. Ayo Oke, and the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Babachir Lawal, has dispatched letters of invitation to some NIA officials demanding they appear before it on Monday (today).

THE GUARDIAN

 ‘How low drug production impedes epidemic control’

• Stakeholders seek good policies to halt trend
  Survey blames inadequate financing, others

The inability of the Federal Government to manage disease outbreaks in the country, occasioned by the lack of political will and low capacity in local drug manufacturing, poses a serious threat to citizens’ well-being and the nation’s economic growth.

BUSINESS DAY

Nigerian Breweries, Unilever results show consumer firms coping with difficulties

Steep cuts in operating costs and product price increases have helped companies in the consumer space boost their profits in the first quarter of 2017 overcoming the difficult operating environment they faced in 2016.

DAILY SUN

Col Umar hits Buhari’s Govt

• Condemns detention of Dasuki, disrespect of Jonathan

Former military governor of Kaduna State, Colonel Abubakar Dangiwa Umar (retd) has hit the Federal Government over the ordeal of erstwhile National Security Adviser (NSA), Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd).

NIGERIAN TRIBUNE

I fear for the place of this govt in history- Dogara

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Yakubu Dogara, has said that his greatest fear as a Speaker is not the political battles or controversies, but not leaving a lasting legacy which will impact positively on the lives of Nigerians.

VANGUARD

Ikoyi cash: Osinbajo’s panel invites NIA D-G’s aides

·        Suspended NIA boss, Oke, yet to be formally invited

·        Why Magu raided Osborne Road flat- SOURCE

·        How grass-cutting contractor paid N 220m to Rholavision
The Presidential Committee probing Director-General of National Intelligence Agency, NIA, Ambassador Ayodele Oke, and Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, David Babachir Lawal, has invited some aides of the suspended NIA boss, Vanguard learned last night.