Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Wednesday, December, 8th 2021.
According to The PUNCH, federal and Lagos State governments on Tuesday got tougher with the enforcement of their directives on compulsory COVID-19 vaccination. The central government, which on December 1 disallowed unvaccinated civil servants from accessing their offices, on Tuesday barred visitors that were not vaccinated from government buildings in Abuja
The planned nationwide broadband deployment is being threatened by the slow takeoff of the licenced Infrastructure Companies (InfraCos), despite a longer tenor and cheaper licence costs, The Guardian reports.
There was protest by residents yesterday at Ojodu, a Lagos surburb, as an articulated truck crushed pupils of Babs Fafunwa Millennium Secondary School, who were returning home after school hours, The Nation reports.
As the dry season sets in and clearing the bushes that serve as hideouts to bandits terrorising communities in parts of the North commenced, many of the assailants have begun peace moves with local communities to avert counter offensive against them, an investigation by Daily Trust reveals.
Aggrieved leaders in the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) and the opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) are set to launch a new political party ahead of the 2023 general elections, Daily Independent exclusively gathered
Thank you for reading, that all for today, see you again tomorrow for a review of Nigerian newspapers.
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