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Newspaper Headlines: FG may ban trucks from plying highways as tanker fire claims 493 lives

Ayodeji.oluwafemi@thecable.ng'byAyodele Oluwafemi
February 13, 2025 7:00 am

Conversations around the hike in telecommunications tariff and the boycott directive to subscribers by organised labour dominate the headlines today. 

The Punch reports that Arewa Consultative Forum, and some prominent voices from the northern region of the country, have said the region cannot be forced to re-elect President Bola Tinubu in 2027. The newspaper says the federal government, through the Nigerian Midstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority (NMDPRA), has said it may ban trucks with 60,000-litre capacity from plying the highways.
Vanguard reports that some parts of the country were without electricity on Wednesday after the national grid experienced yet another “disturbance”. The newspaper says 10 students of the Polytechnic Ibadan have been hospitalised after inhaling suspected harmful gas in the institution’s laboratory.
Daily Trust reports that members of the house of representatives have called for removal of contentious clauses from the tax reform bills as the proposed legislation scaled second reading at the green chamber. The newspaper says the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said at least 124 media workers were killed globally in 2024.
The Nation reports that the crisis in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has deepened after party bigwigs summoned to appear before a disciplinary committee headed by Tom Ikimi failed to do so. The newspaper says the Tony Elumelu Foundation has signed a $6 million strategic partnership pact with United Arab Emirates (UAE) office of development affairs and Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation to empower an additional 1,000 young African entrepreneurs.

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