Newspaper Headlines: Fire guts Kano commissioner’s residence, kills daughter
BY Ayodele Oluwafemi
July 18, 2024 7:00 AM
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Reports on President Bola Tinubu’s additional N6 trillion budget request permeate the frontpages.
The Punch reports that the management of Dangote Industries Limited (DIL) has insisted that international oil companies (IOCs) are frustrating its efforts to purchase crude feedstock for the Dangote refinery. The newspaper says Akintunde Sawyerr, managing director of the Nigerian Education Loan Fund (NELFUND), said more students from the northern region of the country applied for the student loan scheme of the federal government.Daily Trust reports that governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) have expressed worries over the hardship being experienced by Nigerians. The newspaper says the senate has sacked Ali Ndume, senator representing Borno central, as the chief whip of the upper chamber following a letter from the national leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC). The newspaper also reports a fire incident at the home of a commissioner in Kano. The Guardian reports that Nigeria’s fiscal deficit is nearing N14 trillion after President Bola Tinubu added another N6.2 trillion. The newspaper says a federal high court in Abuja has nullified the removal of Philip Shaibu as deputy governor of Edo state.THISDAY reports that the two chambers of the national assembly have approved Tinubu’s request for fresh injection of N6.2 trillion into the N27.5 trillion 2024 budget. The newspaper says a Financial Times (FT) article has described current policies by Tinubu’s administration as disjointed, adding that the president’s shock therapy strategy alone will not cure Nigeria’s multifarious economic challenges.