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Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Thursday, 3 March, 2022
Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Thursday, March, 3rd 2022.
Nigeria on Wednesday sided with 140 countries to demand the immediate withdrawal of Russian troops from Ukraine. The PUNCH reports that the United Nations General Assembly overwhelmingly adopted a resolution that “demands” Russia’s “immediately” withdraw from Ukraine, in a powerful rebuke of Moscow’s invasion by a vast majority of the world’s nations.
As university students await return of academic activities after severe disruption as a result of last month’s warning strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), stakeholders have warned that continued shut down of schools might further destroy the already battered tertiary education system in the country, The Guardian reports.
The Federal Government, yesterday, expressed the hope that the one-month warning strike embarked upon by Academic State Union of Universities, ASUU, on February 14, 2022, would soon end, Vanguard says.
Nigeria has approved the request by the United States for the extradition of suspended Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Abba Kyari. A grand jury, last April 29, filed an indictment against Kyari with the approval of the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California, The Nation reports.
Ahead of its March 26 national convention, the leadership of the All Progressives Congress (APC) has begun to set machinery in motion for the exercise. The latest move was the constitution of an eight-member committee on the zoning of party offices, headed by Kwara State Governor Abdulrahaman AbdulRazaq. National Secretary of the Caretaker/Extraordinary Convention Planning Committee (CECPC), Senator John Akpanudoedehe, disclosed this in a statement, yesterday, This Day reports.
There seems to be no end in sight to the biting petrol scarcity across the country as four of the 17 cargoes ordered by the Nigerian National Petroleum Company (NNPC) Limited, which have arrived, cannot discharge the product, Daily Trust reports.
Thank you for reading, that all for today, see you again tomorrow for a review of Nigerian newspapers.
