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Newspaper Headlines: Tinubu overrules Akande panel, backs Obasa to remain speaker

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

The political crisis in Rivers state continues to dominate the frontpages of the dailies.

The Punch reports that former president Olusegun Obasanjo has described the N15.6 trillion Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project as wasteful and corrupt. The newspaper says President Bola Tinubu has backed Mudashiru Obasa to remain as speaker of the Lagos assembly despite an earlier recommendation for his resignation after being reinstated.
Daily Trust reports that more groups have expressed their disapproval over the alleged plan by the Martin Amaewhule-led faction of the Rivers house of assembly to impeach Siminalayi Fubara, governor of Rivers. The newspaper says patients living with chronic kidney diseases have lamented the high cost of treatment.
THISDAY reports that Nyesom Wike, minister of the federal capital territory (FCT), said Fubara should face impeachment if he is deemed to have violated the constitution. The newspaper says the senate has defended its decision to suspend Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan, senator representing Kogi central, before the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), the global organisation of national parliaments.
Nigerian Tribune reports that over 70 shops were ravaged by fire at the popular Aleshinloye market in Ibadan, Oyo state capital. The newspaper says an aide to Samuel Anyanwu, ousted national secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), locked the party’s national secretariat to prevent members of the national working committee (NWC) from holding a scheduled meeting.

 

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