FCT, States Lose Trillions Of Naira To Unpaid Ground Rents And Other Newspaper Headlines

Nigerian Newspapers today, September 25, 2023, have their top stories centered around ground rents and revocation of lands in Abuja fronted by the Minister of the F.C.T., Nyesom Wike.

Daily Trust reports that the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), said it recovered over N2 billion as ground rents from property owners. The newspaper says Boko Haram terrorists ambushed and killed more than three people, including a soldier, along the Gwoza-Limankara-Uvaha road.

Daily Independent says analysts have described the assumption of office of Olayemi Cardoso as acting governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) without the senate’s confirmation as inappropriate and presumptuous. The newspaper reports that troops arrested eight freight boats conveying over 100,000 litres of illegally refined Automated Gas Oil (AGO) in Rivers.

The Nation reports that Adebayo Adelabu, the minister of power, has warned electricity workers against vandalising the national grid when they embark on a strike. The newspaper says owners of revoked 189 Abuja plots will get a three-month window as a relief to develop their plots.

The Guardian says Afe Babalola, the legal luminary, has urged Lateef Fagbemi, the attorney general and minister of justice, to help build a new Nigeria by coming up with a new constitution. The newspaper details that the federal government has spent nothing less than N2.8 trillion to subsidise electricity consumption from 2015 to June 2023.

The Sun says Atiku Abubakar, a former vice-president, has accused President Bola Tinubu of misleading Nigerians with propaganda. The newspaper reports that Benjamin Kalu, the deputy speaker of the house of representatives, said the 10th house would enact laws to effectively eliminate multiple taxation in the country.