Newspaper Headlines: NIMC portal breaks down — banks, telcos suffer

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Newspaper Headlines: NIMC portal breaks down — banks, telcos suffer

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February 7, 2022

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The impending strike of the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) made the headlines of Nigerian newspapers.

The Nation reports that university lecturers are heading for another strike over the delay in the implementation of the re-negotiated 2009 agreement. The newspaper says the new shareholders of MTN will get N5.7 billion dividends.

The Punch reports that the portal of the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) is currently experiencing a technical glitch. The newspaper says the federal government school feeding programme has suffered a setback as pupils wait in vain for food.

Daily Independent reports that the aerospace university is yet to commence operations six years after its unveiling and despite a N1 billion grant. The newspaper says President Muhammadu Buhari has yielded to the pressure of the governors for the emergence of a consensus candidate for the national championship of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

The Guardian reports that Nigeria’s code top-level domain — .ng — has failed to gain traction with only 184,341 registered users currently using the country’s domain name. The newspaper says the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has kicked against access to subscribers’ national identity details by security agencies.

Daily Trust reports that terrorists and other criminals are closing in on Kaduna metropolis amid increasing attacks and abductions in villages and towns close to the state capital. The federal government is exploring other options to fund multiple rail projects following delay by Chinese funders, the newspaper reports.

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