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Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Sunday, 6 March, 2022
Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Sunday, March, 6th 2022.
Chairmen of the state chapters of the All Progressives Congress have thrown their weight behind a former governor of Nasarawa State, Adamu Abdullahi, to become the national chairman of the party. Sunday PUNCH learnt that their decision followed the insistence of the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) that Abdullahi should lead the APC
Prevaling economic realities, especially the rising price of crude oil at the international market, and the cost of petrol subsidy, which is threatening the 36 states could worsen the financial crisis facing the states ahead of 2023 election, The Guardian reports.
From former President Olusegun Obasanjo yesterday came a warning that no one should toy with power rotation, federal character and other principles designed to make Nigeria a strong and united nation, The Nation reports.
Daily Trust reports that since the exacerbation of bandits’ activities around the far northern part of Zamfara State, which borders the eastern part of Sokoto State, residents became gripped by fear and began to take steps to protect their communities from the encroaching fire engulfing nearby communities. In the past five to six years’ they had witnessed how the rampaging bandits ran down village after another in the neighbouring Zurmi and Shinkafi local governments, like elsewhere in Zamfara State, with some of the displaced persons running to them for cover.
Nigeria’s former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, on Saturday, declared that many aspirants jostling for different elective posts ahead of the 2023 general elections, ought to be serving one jail term or another for their acts of corruption, Sunday Tribune says.
Thank you for reading, that all for today, see you again tomorrow for a review of Nigerian newspapers.
