Newspaper Headlines: FG yet to recover CBN anchor borrowers’ loans from farmers

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Newspaper Headlines: FG yet to recover CBN anchor borrowers’ loans from farmers

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September 15, 2023

Reports on the collapse of the national grid, and the appointment of Zacch Adedeji as the new acting executive chairman of the Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS), permeate the front pages of Nigerian newspapers.

The Punch reports that the Debt Management Office (DMO) has said Nigeria’s total public debt hit N87.38tn at the end of the second quarter of 2023. The newspaper says electricity consumers have criticised the federal government over the repeated collapse of the national grid.

Daily Trust says the federal government is struggling to recover billions of naira given to rice farmers as loans since 2018 — three days to the deadline issued by President Bola Tinubu.

Daily Independent reports that President Bola Tinubu has approved the appointment of Adedeji as the new acting executive chairman of the FIRS. The newspaper says the court of appeal in Abuja has set aside the ruling that declared Ndudi Elumelu, candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), as winner of the 2023 election for Aniocha/Oshimili federal constituency, Delta state.

The Nation reports that the war against oil thieves and economic saboteurs by the military and police have started to yield results. The newspaper says the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) said it will not allow the All Progressives Congress (APC) to turn Nigeria into a one-party state.

Vanguard reports that the national livestock reforms committee headed by Attahiru Jega has recommended the creation of the ministry of livestock resources among others, to reduce the conflict between farmers and cattle herders nationwide.

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