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Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Thursday 16th November, 2023
Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Thursday 16th November 2023.
The PUNCH: The national executive councils of the Nigeria Labour Congress and the Trade Union Congress on Wednesday night suspended their nationwide strike over an alleged assault on the President of the NLC, Joe Ajaero. The unions said the suspension followed the intervention of the National Security Adviser, Nuhu Ribadu.
The Guardian: Stakeholders are particularly concerned about the impact of runaway food inflation, which rose to 31.5 per cent, on households and how the crisis could push more individuals below the poverty line. Nigeria, according to Our World in Data, is in the top spot of countries with the highest food expenditure with the percentage of total personal income that goes into food estimated at 60 per cent.
The Nation: The ongoing reforms by the Tinubu Administration may come with pains but are inevitable, Minister of Finance and the Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Olawale Edun has said. According to him, it would have been costlier for the country to delay or put off the reforms. The minister is confident that the policies will enable the country to fulfil its potential, “so there is no going back”.
Daily Trust: Nigeria’s headline inflation rate for October 2023 has increased to 27.33 percent, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has disclosed. Daily Trust reports that the figure is 0.9 short of the 28.2 percent recorded 18 years ago, in August 2005.
Thank you for reading, that is all for today, see you again tomorrow for a review of Nigerian newspapers.
