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Newspaper Headlines: 15 months after, EFCC yet to release probe reports on Betta Edu, Sadiya Umar Farouq

Ayodeji.oluwafemi@thecable.ng'byAyodele Oluwafemi
April 28, 2025 7:00 am

The gale of defections from opposition parties to the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), and the rising insecurity across the country, continue to dominate the headlines.

The Punch reports that the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has called for an emergency meeting in a bid to throw spanners in President Bola Tinubu’s re-election works. A doctor in Ondo state is facing charges over alleged abduction of a 10-year-old, the newspaper says.

The Nation reports that Vice-President Kashim Shettima and other leaders of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) will today welcome Sheriff Oborevwori, governor of Delta, and other defectors from the PDP. The newspaper says a yet-to-named security operative who sells state’s arms and ammunition to bandits has been arrested by the Department of State Services (DSS).
Daily Trust reports that the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is yet to release the investigative report pertaining to the alleged fraud levelled against Betta Edu and Sadiya Umar Farouq, former ministers of humanitarian affairs. The newspaper says gunmen have killed 16 people in separate attacks on communities in Adamawa and Benue states.
The Guardian reports that Nigerians need to brace up for a 150 percent hike in the cost of solar installations as the federal government finalises the ban on the importation of solar panels. The newspaper says the Christian Rights Agenda (CRA) said more than 80 communities in the northern part of Nigeria have fallen under the control of Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) fighters.
Nigerian Tribune reports that the presidency and some civil society actors have clashed over allegations that President Bola Tinubu is planning to turn the country into a one-party state. The newspaper says the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) said it would not believe that the federal government has released N50 billion to settle earned allowances of academic and non-academic staff unions of federal universities until its members begin to receive credit alerts.
THISDAY reports that Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos, said Peter Obi, presidential candidate of the Labour Party in 2023, lacks the moral authority to criticise poverty in Nigeria, considering how he governed Anambra. The newspaper says the Nigerian Association of Chambers of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (NACCIMA) and the organised private sector (OPS) have expressed concern over the World Bank’s projection that Nigeria’s poverty rate could soar to 56 percent by 2027.
Vanguard reports that Tinubu said he should not be blamed for the inability of opposition parties to manage their affairs. The newspaper says Oborevwori and Ovie Omo-Agege, a former deputy senate president, may be heading for a showdown over the leadership of the APC in Delta state.

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