Nigeria News

Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Tuesday, 18 January, 2022

Published

18 January 2022

8:27 AM

Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review

Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Tuesday, January, 18th 2022.

Former Governor Tanko Al-Makura of Nasarawa State and the lawmaker representing Niger East, Senator Sani Musa are favoured by the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to emerge as the national chairman of the APC, The PUNCH has learnt.

As the National Assembly resumes plenary today after the Yuletide break, governors elected on the platform of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) rose from a meeting in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, yesterday, with a charge to legislators not to sustain President Muhammadu Buhari’s veto of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021, The Guardian reports.

Fresh dust is gathering around the Electoral Act Amendment Bill rejected by President Muhammadu Buhari over direct primaries as the National Assembly resumes today from Christmas and New Year break, Daily Trust reports.

According to Nigerian Tribune, the Federal Government (FG) on Monday, filed a fresh 15-count terrorism charge against the self-acclaimed leader of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Mazi Nnamdi Kanu.