Nigerian Newspaper Headlines and Naija News for Tuesday, 30 May 2023, have been compiled below by NewsOnline Nigeria Reporter.
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Top Nigerian Newspaper Headlines And Naija News For Tuesday, 30 May 2023.
1. President Bola Tinubu, on Monday, in Abuja, took the oaths of office and allegiance as the 16th President of Nigeria with a vow that the country would not break up. Tinubu in his inaugural address at Eagle Square also unveiled a series of steps he would take to position the country on the path of economic development, stability and prosperity.
2. The Independent Petroleum Marketers Association of Nigeria has opposed the plan by President Bola Tinubu to enforce his predecessor’s decision to remove fuel subsidy by June ending. Tinubu had earlier on Monday, in Abuja, affirmed that his administration would not continue to pay subsidy on petroleum products.
3. Former President Goodluck Jonathan has said members of his cabinet feared being jailed when the immediate past President, Muhammadu Buhari, won election in 2015. Jonathan, while speaking in an interview aired by Arise TV on Monday, said some of his cabinet members even felt he would run away, but he stayed in the country.
4. Men of the Lagos State Police Command are currently working to unravel the circumstances surrounding the death of a woman and her two daughters in a shop around PPL, Ijagun Okokomaiko area of the state. The deceased, whose identities could not be immediately ascertained, were said to have locked themselves inside the shop for two days before their corpses were recovered.
5. Media tycoon and founding Chairman, Daar Communications Limited, Raymond Dokpesi, is dead. His death was confirmed in a statement on Monday by his son and Chairman of Daar Communications, Raymond Dokpesi Jnr.
6. The new Governor of Zamfara State, Dauda Dare, on Monday, cried out, saying that he met an empty treasury. Dare, who spoke immediately after his swearing-in at the Trade Fair Complex in Gusau, stressed that he did not meet anything in the treasury when he took over the affairs of the state from his predecessor, Bello Matawalle.
7. The President of the United States of America, Joe Biden, has expressed the desire to work with the newly sworn-in President of Nigeria, Bola Tinubu. This was disclosed in a statement, on Monday, from Biden to Tinubu while felicitating with the new Nigeria President.
8. New Plateau State governor, Caleb Mutfwang has said he inherited a state with a debt burden of N200 billion. He disclosed this in his inaugural speech after his swearing-in ceremony in Jos, the state capital.
9. Petrol stations in Lagos started witnessing queues a few hours after President Bola Tinubu announced that “fuel subsidy is gone”. It was observed that NNPC stations in Ikeja were crowded by motorists who rushed to buy the product.
10. The Kogi State Government has launched an investigation into the causes of the death of five of its citizens whose car plunged into a canal in the state on Friday. The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Kingsley Fanwo, made this known in a statement issued in Lokoja on Monday.
