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Newspaper Headlines: Governors lobby Tinubu to block direct payment of allocation to LGs

Criticisms of the federal and Lagos state governments by a corps member continue to stir debate.

Punch highlights how subsidy removal in Nigeria has worsened Niger Republic’s fuel scarcity. The newspaper says state governors have launched a fresh push against the planned disbursement of federation allocation to the local governments in a bid to delay the implementation of the supreme court verdict on LGA autonomy.


Tribune reports that the house of representatives recorded a significant breakthrough in ongoing efforts to recover N28.7 billion from two oil companies indebted to the federation account. The newspaper says Amnesty International said the federal government must stop threatening individuals and groups who criticise the current administration.
The Nation details crisis in Rivers politics, relaying that the state government and the house of assembly clashed over Siminalayi Fubara’s purported letter to the lawmakers on 2025 budget re-presentation. The newspaper reports that the federal government has given approval for the construction of a modular refinery in Abia state.
Guardian reports that the Pan-Niger Delta Forum (PANDEF) youth leadership has warned that the toxic brand of politics by Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), poses a serious threat to President Bola Tinubu’s re-election bid. The newspaper says the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC) seized 100 truckloads of substandard, falsified, expired, and banned medicines.

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