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Newspaper Headlines: Ogun AG, AIG clash over murder, land-grabbing cases

Ayodeji.oluwafemi@thecable.ng'byAyodele Oluwafemi
March 25, 2025 7:00 am

Reports on former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s latest take on Nigeria’s democracy suffuse the frontpages. 

The Punch reports that the Dangote Petroleum Refinery and some modular refineries in Nigeria may spend about $8.56 billion to import an estimated 122,400,000 barrels of crude oil to achieve full operational capacity in six months. The newspaper says Sina Ogungbade, Ogun state attorney-general and commissioner for justice, has accused Adegoke Fayoade, assistant inspector general of police in charge of zone 2, Lagos, of engaging in cheap blackmail and collaborating with land grabbers to perpetrate injustice in the state.
THISDAY reports Obasanjo as saying that democracy in Africa is not just failing but actually dying, while attributing the decline to a lack of alignment with African values and realities. The newspaper says Mohammed Idris, minister of information and orientation, has hinted that President Bola Tinubu will end the state of emergency in Rivers state as soon as stability is restored.
Daily Trust reports that 12 inmates at Koton Karfe medium security prison in Kogi state overpowered officers on duty, killed one of them, tied up two others and escaped. The newspaper says teachers in public primary schools in the federal capital territory (FCT) have embarked on a fourth strike in four months.
The Nation reports that the first batch of 800 of the 2,400-strong team, code-named special operations force (SOF), is currently undergoing training at the Jaji military cantonment in Kaduna state, in preparation to fight terrorists and other non-state actors. The newspaper says state governments have received the withheld local government council funds pending the implementation of the supreme court verdict on LGA autonomy.

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