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Newspaper Headlines: APC woos opposition governors with ministerial appointments, return tickets

Ayodeji.oluwafemi@thecable.ng'byAyodele Oluwafemi
May 20, 2025 7:00 am

Reports on the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME) fiasco continue to suffuse the cover pages of the dailies. 

The Punch reports that the All Progressives Congress (APC) is wooing opposition governors with juicy offers ahead of the 2027 poll. The newspaper says the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) will on Wednesday release the results of students who sat for the resit 2025 UTME.
Daily Trust reports that Nigerians have continued to express frustration over the rising cost of living since President Bola Tinubu assumed office. The newspaper says operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) on Monday arrested a suspected kidnap kingpin identified as Sani Galadi, at the Sultan Abubakar International Airport, Sokoto.
Nigerian Tribune reports that the supreme court judgment on local government autonomy is yet to be implemented almost one year to the date the verdict was delivered. The newspaper says the Oyo state government has said the Ibadan airport will commence international flights in 2026.
The Guardian reports that insecurity in the south-west geopolitical zone and bandits’ invasion of the interior forests may have put about 40 percent of food production at risk. Femi Falana, human rights lawyer, said the mandatory voting bill proposal in the house of representatives is unconstitutional, the newspaper says.
THISDAY reports that Bosun Tijani, minister of communications, innovation, and digital economy, disclosed that the rollout of the 90,000 kilometres of fibre lines, and 7,000 telecommunications towers infrastructure nationwide, will formally commence in Q4 2025. The newspaper says Peter Obi, the 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), said he is not an enemy of President Bola Tinubu and that he is only interested in joining a coalition against hunger and poverty in Nigeria.
The Nation reports that a dispute has broken out among the three leading traditional rulers in Oyo state over the bill at the state house of assembly seeking to make the Alaafin of Oyo permanent chairman of the traditional rulers’ council. The newspaper says the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has recognised George Moghalu as the candidate of the LP for the November 8 governorship election in Anambra state. Moghalu was elected during the party primary conducted by the Julius Abure-led faction of the LP.
Daily Sun reports that pressure is mounting on Ishaq Oloyede, JAMB registrar, to resign over the technical glitch that marred the conduct of the 2025 UTME. The newspaper says many women from Nissi, Kapam and Rido communities staged a protest yesterday at the Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) over alleged release of harmful chemicals that severely impacted their health and environment.

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