Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Saturday, 26 February, 2022

Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Saturday, February, 26th 2022.

According to The PUNCH, the Federal Government on Friday said there can be no evacuation of Nigerians in Ukraine until the airports in the European country, which is under attack by Russia, are reopened.

After years of back and forth movements by the Executive and the National Assembly with regard to attempts to improve the country electoral process via legislation, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday assented to the reworked Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2022, declaring that the new legislation is aimed at revolutionalising elections in Nigeria, The Guardian reports

The controversy over the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2022 is not yet over even after President Muhammadu Buhari signed it into law yesterday. The Nation reports that Buhari insisted that it must undergo amendment to remove what he called a fundamental defect.

Violence between farmers and herders, intra-ethnic or communal misunderstanding and attacks by bandits, militants and other criminals in local communities in North Central states of Nigeria have destroyed schools’ infrastructure and forced many children out of school after displacing their parents, Daily Trust reports.

Saturday Independent reports that the upper chamber of the National Assem­bly has commended President Muham­madu Buhari for signing the Electoral Bill which is now the legislative framework for the conduct of elections in Nigeria

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