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Newspaper Headlines: 29 states spent N2trn on travels, utilities in first nine months of 2024

Ayodeji.oluwafemi@thecable.ng'byAyodele Oluwafemi
December 6, 2024 7:00 am

There’s plenty on Senate President Godswill Akpabio’s remarks on the controversial tax reform bills. The crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) suffuses the frontpages as well. 

The Punch reports that 29 state governors spent N1.994 trillion on recurrent expenditures, including refreshments, sitting allowances, travels, and utilities in the first nine months of 2024. The newspaper says Amnesty International has alleged that over 10,000 people have died in military custody since the onset of the Boko Haram insurgency in north-east Nigeria.
Nigerian Tribune reports that the senate has slammed the generating companies (GenCos), the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), and the distribution companies (DisCos) over power outages in the country. The newspaper says the Board of Trustees (BoT) of the PDP has called on stakeholders from the north-central to urgently nominate a new national chairman to replace Iyorchia Ayu.
Daily Trust reports that the house of representatives has introduced two bills aimed at addressing budget presentation delays by the president and governors. The senate president has said the upper legislative chamber will continue deliberations on President Bola Tinubu’s tax bills.
Vanguard reports that four members of the house of representatives have defected from the Labour Party (LP) to the All Progressives Congress (APC). The newspaper says the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) has extended Nigeria’s oil production quota of 1.5 million barrels per day (bpd) to 2026.

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