93-year-old Mugabe resists pressure to resign - Newspaper review

The headlines of mainstream Nigerian newspapers for Friday, November 17, are focused on APC chieftain, Bola Tinubu's message on President Buhari's anti-graft war.

This Day reports that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Thursday in Abuja, said it would be a factual lie to claim that the war against corruption had been won by the administration of President Muhammadu Buhari.

This Day Newspaper

The Nation reports that Tinubu reviewed the three-point focus of the Buhari's administration – the anti-graft battle, security and re-ordering the economy – saying in spite of strident criticisms, the government had done well to make the country more prosperous now than it was two years ago.

He did this during the public presentation of a book “Making steady, sustainable progress for Nigeria’s peace and prosperity” at the old Banquet Hall of the State House in Abuja.

The Nation Newspaper

The Guardian reports that Tinubu implored the Buhari administration to hasten and complete the good works it had started. “Do it the more. The good that you are yet to achieve, get to it with a laser-like focus,” he said.

The former governor, who was special guest of honour at the occasion, noted that Nigeria could not make appreciable progress without robust industrial capacity.

The Guardian Newspaper

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Vanguard reports that contrary to insinuations that the Federal Government cancelled the work permits of expatriate workers of Intels and its affiliates, government, yesterday, provided evidence to prove that the action had no political undertones.

According to government, the action was based strictly on extant laws guiding operations of the nation’s Export Free Zones.

Vanguard Newspaper

The Punch reports that the Zimbabwean’s President, Robert Mugabe, has refused to resign after a military coup, insisting that he remains the only legitimate ruler of the country.

But pressure is mounting on the 93-year-old former guerrilla to accept offers of a graceful exit.