The PUNCH: Six state governments including Ekiti, Ebonyi, Jigawa, Yobe, Nasarawa, and Bayelsa have spent about N160bn on airport projects that opposition politicians and aviation professionals classified as unviable. Stakeholders say the huge public funds expended on the facilities have amounted to waste. They condemned the state governors and asked Nigerians to hold them responsible for the waste.
Vanguard: Tales of woes have continued to persist in the South-East geo-political region due to the unending spate of kidnappings in the zone. No week passes by without tales of people being kidnapped in different parts of the five states that make up the zone.
ThisDay: International Monetary Fund (IMF) has advised the Nigerian government to sustain ongoing economic reforms for the country to get better and achieve the desired economic growth that will lift the majority of citizens out of poverty. The multilateral institution also urged the federal government to address governance and business regulation bottlenecks to grow the economy at five to eight percentage points annually.
The Nation: The military reaffirmed yesterday its full support for democracy and unalloyed subordination to civil authorities. Chief of Defence Staff Gen. Christopher Musa and Chief of Army Staff Lt-Gen. Taoreed Lagbaja, who spoke at different fora, dismissed calls for military intervention by a section of those who protested against economic crisis early this month and some political interests.
Daily Trust: The current Mpox outbreak in Nigeria has spread to 30 local government areas in 19 states and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), with 40 confirmed cases so far. A report from the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control and Prevention (NCDC) also showed that there are so far a total of 802 suspected cases in 33 states of the Federation.
