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Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Saturday 21st October, 2023
Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Saturday 21st October 2023.
The PUNCH: The Federal Government is reviewing and expanding the National Social Register to accommodate pensioners and ex-servicemen under its Conditional Cash Transfer scheme. It is also removing beneficiaries who have excited the poverty line.
The Vanguard: The battle to eliminate corruption in the Nigerian public space is as strenuous as the fight to keep and sustain the executioners of the war on corruption. Fighting corruption in Nigeria has long been a perilous adventure that brutally consumed the heads of the ‘war commanders’ with some of their foot soldiers in the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, the official government agency saddled with the herculean task of prosecuting the anti-graft fight.
ThisDay: President Bola Tinubu yesterday invoked the principle of presidential prerogative of mercy by approving the partial waiver of the “No Work, No Pay” order instituted against members of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) in federal universities following their eight-month industrial action that began on February 14, 2022, before its suspension on October 17, 2022.
The Nation: Senate Leader Opeyemi Bamidele yesterday challenged his colleagues in the National Assembly to come up with creative legislative frameworks and provide robust oversight support to aid the appreciation and stability of the Naira. He cited regular parleys between federal lawmakers and the Federal Executive Council as a viable means of integrating the eight-point agenda of President Bola Tinubu with the programmes of the 10th National Assembly
The Guardian: Local manufacturers and farmers in the country have expressed fears that the unbanning of 43 items initially placed on the foreign exchange prohibitive list by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) is capable of sending many of them out of business.
Thank you for reading, that is all for today, see you again tomorrow for a review of Nigerian newspapers.
