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Newspaper Headlines: Anti-Tinubu coalition leaders divided over move to register new party

Ayodeji.oluwafemi@thecable.ng'byAyodele Oluwafemi
June 22, 2025 8:24 am

Reports on the growing insecurity in the country, amidst killings in Borno, Kebbi, and Plateau states, dominate the front pages of Nigerian newspapers.

The PUNCH says four northern governors and two principal officers of the national assembly are eyeing the vice-presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress ahead of 2027. The newspaper reports that MRS filling stations have raised the pump price of petrol to N925/litre in Lagos, from N885/litre.
THISDAY reports that at least 71 people were killed in a bandit attack in Kebbi, a suicide bombing in Borno, an explosion in Kano, and a mob assault on travellers in Plateau. The newspaper says President Bola Tinubu has urged West African leaders to harness the region’s youthful population and abundant natural resources for economic transformation through industrialisation, education, and innovation.
Vanguard reports that the coalition of prominent opposition politicians is grappling with internal divisions over a proposal to register a new political party — the All Democratic Alliance (ADA). The newspaper says the Ondo government has proposed a death sentence for persons found guilty of kidnapping in the state.
The Nation reports that Vice-President Kashim Shettima has assured of the federal government’s swift response to Friday night’s suicide bombing in Borno state, which left no fewer than 24 people dead. The newspaper says Nigeria and the Republic of Benin have signed a landmark agreement to deepen bilateral cooperation and set a precedent for broader collaboration across the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS).
Daily Independent reports that Olufemi Oluyede, chief of army staff (COAS), has given assurances that perpetrators of the recent Benue killings would soon be apprehended. The crisis at the Michael Imoudu Nation­al Institute for Labour Studies (MINILS) has deepened as workers continue to resist the reappointment of Issa Aremu as director-general of the institute de­spite direct intervention by the federal government, the newspaper says.

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