Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Saturday, 29 January, 2022

Naija News looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Saturday, January, 29th 2022.

Amid intense calls for power shift from the North to the South for the 2023 presidential election, the main opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, has said it will not stop aspirants of northern origin from contesting its presidential ticket, The PUNCH reports.

According to The Guardian, security breaches at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos are really not new. But with insiders beginning to threaten its safety and security, and daylight robbery now a new normal on the restricted airside, stakeholders have called for the overhauling of the security architecture at the airport.

Daily Trust leads with a report which says one hundred and twenty-four children were abducted from the streets in Nigeria in the last five years. The figures represent reported cases that happened outside the schools between 2017 and 2021 and do not include major school-related abductions which according to the Representative of United Nations Children Education Fund (UNICEF) in Nigeria, Peter Hawkins, affected 1,440 children in 2021

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has berated President Muhammadu Buhari for cancelling his planned visit to Zamfara State besieged by bandits, Tribune says.

Thank you for reading, that all for today, see you again tomorrow for a review of Nigerian newspapers.