Newspaper Headlines: Evacuation of Nigerians from Sudan suffers delay | Embassy officials escape death

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Newspaper Headlines: Evacuation of Nigerians from Sudan suffers delay | Embassy officials escape death

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April 26, 2023

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Reports on the evacuation process of Nigerians in Sudan dominated the cover pages of Nigerian newspapers.

The Punch says the federal government has released N150 million for hiring 40 buses to convey Nigerians from Sudan to Cairo in Egypt. The newspaper reports that the federal government has announced the disconnection of some power firms from the national grid as a result of their non-adherence to the electricity market rule.

Daily Trust reports that 96 percent of women who contested for various positions in the 2023 general election lost to their male counterparts. The newspaper says kidnappers have abducted 29 residents at Yewuti village in the federal capital territory (FCT).

THISDAY reports that Abdullahi Adamu, national chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and other party leaders have visited Bola Tinubu, president-elect, who returned to the country on Monday after a one-month stay abroad. The newspaper says the APC leaders are considering zoning the position of senate president to the south-south and the speakership position to the north-west.

The Guardian reports that the rate of exchange applicable to foreign airlines has skyrocketed to N582 per dollar, leading to a hike in the cost of international air travel fares. The newspaper says prosecutorial challenges and politics may provide an escape route for Hudu Yunusa-Ari, suspended resident electoral commissioner of Adamawa.

Daily Sun reports that intense lobbying for appointments in the new government has commenced as ministers, outgoing governors, party leaders, and clerics besieged the Asokoro residence of Tinubu. The newspaper says the Unified Tertiary Matriculation Board (UTME) of 2023 kicked off on a shaky note with network glitches marring the process across various centres in the country.

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