Nigerian newspaper headlines November 26, 2016.
Premium Times
‘Defrauded’ on N918 million, Atiku’s wife seeks justice
The wife of a former Nigerian vice president, Atiku Abubakar, on Friday told a Lagos court how a business partner defrauded her of N918 million.
Guardian
Ondo poll: Jimoh Ibrahim supports APC’s Akeredolu
Less than 24 hours to when Ondo State will go to polls to elect Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s successor, a factional candidate of the State’s ruling People’s Democratic Party (PDP) who sacked by the appeal court, Jimoh Ibrahim, has praised the candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Rotimi Akeredolu, as an ideal person to lead the state.
Thisday
Former Cuban Leader Fidel Castro Dies at 90
Fidel Castro, the Cuban revolutionary leader who built a communist state on the doorstep of the United States and for five decades defied U.S. efforts to topple him, died on Friday, his younger brother announced to the nation. He was 90.
The Sun
Ondo: Tension as residents prepare to elect a state governor today
The tension in Ondo has reached fever pitch as residents of the state prepare to elect a governor.
The Nation
Police deploy 22 armoured vehicles, 20 gunboats, 2 helicopters
The police yesterday declared its readiness for today’s governorship election in Ondo State with the deployment of 22 armoured vehicles, 20 gunboats, 2 helicopters
Leadership
PMB: 2017 Budget Won’t Be Padded
The distortions that happened to Budget 2016, in which series of rogue projects and figures were injected into the financial document won’t happen to next year’s budget, President Muhammadu Buhari has vowed.
Vanguard
Adopt IPSAS, UNDP, CSOs tell Delta Govt
The United Nations Development Programme, UNDP, and Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, have advised Nigerian Government, particularly the Delta State Government to adopt the new International Public Sector Accounting Standard, IPSAS in the budgetary system to ensure active participation of the people in its budgetary process.
Punch
Seun Egbegbe tried to abscond with the phones –Shop owner, eye witnesses
So many people would have thought that filmmaker, Seun Egbegbe, was perhaps, directing a movie when the news and pictures hit the internet that he was beaten for absconding with nine iphones at Computer Village, Ikeja, Lagos.