Nigerian Newspaper Headlines Today: November 26

Nigerian newspaper headlines November 26, 2016.

nigerian newspaper headlines november 26

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.