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Newspaper Headlines: PTA demands FG, ASUU, parents meeting over ongoing strike

Ayodeji.oluwafemi@thecable.ng'byAyodele Oluwafemi
August 8, 2022 8:23 am

Reports on the country’s economic situation, especially the federal government’s plan to increase tax on telecommunication services dominated the cover pages of Nigerian newspapers.

The Punch reports that opposition lawmakers in the national assembly have insisted on the impeachment of President Muhammadu Buhari if he fails to address insecurity within six weeks. The newspaper says The National Association of Parents Teachers Association of Nigeria has advised the federal government to convene a tripartite meeting of parents, Academic Staff Union of Universities, and the government so as to resolve the ongoing strike by university lecturers.
The Nation reports that the rift between Nyesom Wike, governor of Rivers, and Atiku Abubakar, presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), has deepened despite reconciliation efforts. The newspaper says Nigeria recorded 21 cases of Monkeypox in one week.
Daily Independent says the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) ways and means to the federal government to the tune of N20 trillion may hinder the apex bank’s price stability mandate. The newspaper reports that Nigerian airlines lose N639.2 billion yearly to restricted operations.
The Guardian says the living conditions of civil servants will further worsen if the federal government accepts governors’ proposal calling for the premature retirement of civil servants, who are above 50 years. The newspaper says northern Christians have asked Simon Lalong, governor of Plateau, to reject his appointment as the director-general of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign.
Daily Trust says call and data tariffs may increase by 100 percent if the federal government’s plan to hike consumption tax on telecom services scales through. The newspaper reports that Abdulkareem Lawal, bandit kingpin popularly known as Faca-faca, and many of his followers have been killed in airstrikes by the Nigerian Air force (NAF).

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