Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Thursday 18th July, 2024

Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Thursday 18th July 2024.

The PUNCH: The Management of Dangote Industries Limited has insisted that the international oil companies are still frustrating crude supply to its 650,000-capacity refinery. The management said this even as it commended the Nigerian Upstream Petroleum Regulatory Commission for its various interventions in the oil company’s crude supply requests from IOCs, and for publishing the Domestic Crude Supply Obligation guidelines to enshrine transparency in the oil industry.

Vanguard: The Information and Communications Technology, ICT, the sector has shown great stability in recent years, holding off bad economic conditions, to contribute handsomely to the nation’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP. However, the sector, buoyed by the huge contribution of the telecommunications sub-sector is beginning to show weak signals which industry operators are not comfortable with.

The Nation: With a signal from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the Student Loan Scheme, one of the cardinal programmes of the administration, commenced yesterday. The N32 billion made available for the programme will be given as loans to successful applicants.

Daily Trust: The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Governors’ Forum Wednesday rose from their two-day meeting in Enugu, saying that it has noted the “unprecedented hardship and impoverishment” of majority of Nigerians, which they said resulted from the mismanagement of the nation’s economy by the All Progressives Congress (APC)-led federal government.

Thank you for reading, that is all for today, see you again tomorrow for a review of Nigerian newspapers.