Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines For Today, Wednesday, January 19th, 2022

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Below are the Major Nigeria Newspaper Headlines from Nigerian Newspapers today:

POLITICS AND NATIONAL NEWS

1. [COVID-19] NCDC Announces 6 Deaths, 163 New Cases

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the latest figures by the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control (NCDC) confirms that Nigeria now has a total of 251,341 COVID-19 cases.

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2. [COVID-19] US Makes Good On Promise Of 3.2m Pfizer Vaccines To Nigeria

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Nigeria has received 3.2 million Pfizer COVID-19 vaccines donated by the United States as authorities step up efforts to curb the spread of the disease in the country.

3. INEC Speaks On Actual Date For 2023 Presidential Election

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Tuesday said it will not announce the actual date for the 2023 presidential election until the Electoral Act Amendment Bill is signed into law.

4. Buhari May Sign Electoral Act Amendment Bill This Week – Lawan

EKO HOT BLOG reports that there are strong indications that President Muhammadu Buhari will sign the Electoral Act Amendment Bill this week, the Senate President, Ahmed Lawan has confirmed.

5. Ekiti, Osun Polls: Parties Must Adhere To Our Timetable – INEC

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has insisted that parties must respect dates for Ekiti, Osun Governorship Election Primaries and the commission’s timetable.

6. BREAKING: Buhari Loses Campaign Coordinator

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Alhaji Danladi Pasali, Coordinator President Muhammadu Buhari campaign organisation (BCO) is dead.

7. 2023: Babangida Picks ‘Best Candidate In APC’

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a former governor of Niger State, Babangida Aliyu, has said that Vice President Yemi Osinbajo is the best candidate in the All Progressives Congress (APC) for the 2023 presidential election.

8. 2023: PDP Chieftain Counsels Party On Choice Of Candidate

EKO HOT BLOG reports that Segun Showunmi, former Spokesman to the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in 2019 election, Atiku Abubakar, on Tuesday challenged Governors elected on the platform of the party to scout for a candidate who “can get the job done by uniting the country”, not a “kindergarten President.

9. World Igbo Congress Sends Huge Message To Nigerian Govt On Restructuring

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a Houston-based sociopolitical organization, World Igbo Congress (WIC) on Tuesday said if the government continue to disregard restructuring Nigeria, “retaining a president of Igbo extraction is nonsense”.

10. Commercial Buses, Cabs, Others To Pay ₦800 Levy From February – LASG

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Lagos State Government and transportation stakeholders in the state on Tuesday signed an agreement and officially unveiled the ‘Consolidated Informal Transport Sector Levy’ to harmonise dues collected by the government from commercial motorists at parks and garages across the state.

11. Lagos Shuts 6 Lounges, Night Clubs

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Lagos State Government has sealed 6 lounges and nightclubs in Ikeja as part of its 2022 Zero Accident Campaign (ZAC).

12. Editorial: MOCPED Transmutation Saga: Why LASG Will Be Consolidating Bad Precedent With LAHA Bill Of LASUED Main Campus

On 29th December 2021, the Lagos State House of Assembly passed a bill wherein it unanimously proposed for the Adeniran Ogunsanya College of Education, Otto-Ijanikin, at (AOCOED), to play host to the newly formed Lagos State University of Education, LASUED.

13. Rising Kidnap Cases On Lagos-Ibadan Expressway: Police Command Speaks

EKO HOT BLOG reports that the Ogun State Police Command has assured the general public that it has mapped out strategies to outrun kidnappers currently terrorising the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, and flush them out of that axis.

14. Osun: Housewife Bathes Her Daughter With Hot Water For Refusing Errand

EKO HOT BLOG reports that a housewife simply identified as Zainab, resident at Oke Oniti area of Osogbo, Osun State, has been arrested for bathing her 11-year-old daughter (name withheld) with hot water after she reportedly refused to run an errand for her.