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Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Sunday, 27 February, 2022

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27 February 2022

9:03 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 Sunday, February, 27th 2022.

The PUNCH reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission on Saturday announced a new timetable for the 2023 general elections. According to the comprehensive timetable and schedule of activities for the 2023 general elections released by the commission in Abuja, the presidential and National Assembly elections would now hold on Saturday, February 25, 2023 as against February 18, 2023 earlier announced, while governorship and state Houses of Assembly elections would take place on March 11, 2023.

Barely 24 hours after President Muhammadu Buhari signed the Electoral Act amendment bill into law, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), yesterday, readjusted the 2023 General Election timetable, The Guardian reports.

Worried about past experiences where Appropriation Bills were rejected by the President after passage by the National Assembly, Senators and members of the House of Representatives have proposed measures that will strengthen existing constitutional provisions on overriding Presidential veto on bills, according to The Nation.

Daily Trust says the escalating war between Russia and Ukraine has sent oil prices to new highs, with the Bonny Light breaking the $100 per barrel resistance level on February 24 for the first time since 2014.

The federal government yesterday said it had made necessary arrangements to evacuate stranded Nigerians in Ukraine to Poland. To this end, This Day reports that it has listed four borders in Ukraine where its citizens seeking to leave the country can be evacuated.