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Newspaper Headlines: South-east residents defy IPOB’s sit-at-home suspension

Ayodeji.oluwafemi@thecable.ng'byAyodele Oluwafemi
August 24, 2021 8:05 am

The court ruling restraining Uche Secondus from being the national chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), creating a twist in the party’s leadership crisis, dominated the headlines of Nigerian newspapers.

Daily Sun reports that residents of the south-east region defied the suspension of the sit-at-home directive by IPOB. The newspaper says blackout in Lagos, Ogun and others as electricity grid collapses again.
Daily Independent reports that Aminu Tambuwal, governor of Sokoto state, has asked President Muhammadu Buhari to stop the recovery of grazing reserves. The newspaper says the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) got N358 billion from the sale of spectrum in two years.
The Punch reports that states have set up a six-member panel on the planned amendments of loopholes in the Petroleum Industry Act. The newspaper says resident doctors have insisted on strike as the industrial court ordered the suspension of the action.
The Nation reports that the leadership crisis in the PDP has taken a new twist following a court ruling restraining Uche Secondus from acting as the party’s national chairman. The newspaper says the federal government is targeting a tax raise in 2022.
The Guardian reports that $1 billion operational costs have pushed private jet owners into bankruptcy amid the COVID-19 pandemic. The newspaper says gunmen killed four and abducted 50 people in Zamfara.

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