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Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Friday, 1 April, 2022
Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Friday, April, 1st 2022.
The PUNCH: A combined team of soldiers, operatives of the Department of State Services and the police have been deployed in Kaduna to locate and possibly rescue passengers abducted by terrorists, who attacked the Kaduna-Abuja train on Monday.
The Guardian: Niger Republic President, Mohammed Bazoum, has said African countries battling terrorism need to come up with new strategies for dealing with the challenges. Bazoum spoke with State House correspondents, yesterday, after his visit to President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja.
Vanguard: Barely a week after terrorists attacked an Abuja-Kaduna train, which left at least eight passengers dead, 41 injured and scores kidnapped, troops of Guards Brigade, Nigerian Army yesterday repelled an attack by scores of armed terrorists, who invaded an Abuja community, Gurara, bordering Niger State and the FCT.
The Nation: The fog over the number of passengers on the ill-fated Abuja-Kaduna train, who are missing, is getting clearer.
The Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) said yesterday that it has not been able to establish contact with 136 people among the 362 onboard the train at the time terrorists struck on Monday night.
Daily Trust: Barring last-minute changes, the 37-man committee constituted by the leading opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to resolve the zoning impasse in the party is set to throw open the presidential race, Daily Trust reliably gathered
Thank you for reading, that all for today, see you again tomorrow for a review of Nigerian newspapers.
