RS Reporters looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Monday, 27th December, 2021
Here are the major headlines from Nigerian newspapers for Monday, 27th December, 2021.
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The PUNCH leads with a report that State governments have intensified preparations of isolation centres in readiness for possible admission of COVID-19 patients as cases of the virus continue to rise in the country.
Intra-African trade routes may be facing a historic blockage as China expands its domineering influnce in the region, touted as the most commercially dependent across the globe, The Guardian.
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Industrial unrest is looming in the Food and Beverages sector of the nation’s economy over alleged expatriate quota abuse by multi-nationals and other major companies in the industry. This is according to Vanguard.
The Senate has ruled out the creation of new states, The Nation learnt yesterday. The Senate Committee on the Review of the 1999 Constitution observed that, apart from shrinking resources, which may render additional states unviable, the exercise may fuel national tension and further polarise the country.
Anti-apartheid legend, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu, has passed on. Tutu, the last of the surviving South African laureates of the Nobel Peace Prize, died yesterday in Cape Town at 90. His funeral has been set for January 1, according to his foundation, This Day reports.
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Persons numbering 106,256 were involved in road traffic crashes between January 2019 and December 2021 in Nigeria. Of these, 14,773 died from 31,116 road accidents recorded within the period, according to data released by the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) and additional tally on road traffic crashes compiled by Daily Trust
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