AbujaTinubu’s Independence Day address named no petrol price and no minimum wage.
Nigeria’s unions had threatened a 3-day warning strike from Friday unless he answered both.
He promised to cut living costs by lowering production and transport costs, through irrigation, fertiliser, storage, roads, railways and ports.
Tinubu said the economy grew more than 4% this year and vowed to resist calls to return to subsidies.
Friday’s strike deadline stands unless unions judge the address a sufficient answer.
How each outlet framed it
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- Punch Newspapers
- emphasizes shift from emergency reform to prosperity phase, details agricultural/production/infrastructure strategy
- Vanguard leans favorable
- emphasizes manufacturing/farming/export focus and harnessing youth for entrepreneurship, unicorns, domestic job creation
Sources: Punch Newspapers, Vanguard