Good day, good citizens of Nigeria, here are headlines from Nigerian Newspapers that may interest you today,Friday, December 24, 2021.
1. Year-End Services: FG restricts religious gathering to 50% [Vanguard Newspaper]
As Nigerians prepare for Christmas and New Year celebrations, the Federal Government, yesterday, restricted religious gathering indoors to 50 per cent capacity in full compliance with public health measures, even as it threatened to introduce more restrictions should there be an increase in COVID-19 cases virus in the country.
2. Bleak yuletide for Nigerians as food prices, fares increase persist [Vanguard Newspaper]
Nigerians are battling with the prospect of a bleak Christmas and New Year season, as the rise in prices of food items and transport fares worsened across the country.
Vanguard survey in Lagos, Abuja, Ibadan, Abeokuta, Owerri, Akwa, Enugu and Umuahia showed a significant increase in prices of food items and transport fares, worsened by the rising demand caused by preparation for the yuletide. Vanguard survey in Lagos on selected foods revealed higher prices Month-on-Month, MoM, for vegetable oil and palm oil, yam, egg and tomatoes, except for plantain (ripe and unripe) and beans, whose prices declined on a MoM basis.
3. NIS warns of foreign terror attacks, FG heightens security [Punch Newspaper]
The military and other security agencies including the Nigeria Immigration Service have intensified security within Abuja following a warning from the Presidency over a planned attack by some terrorists during the Christmas holiday.
The information is contained in a letter dated December 23, 2021, and titled, ‘Terrorists Plan Attacks In Abuja’, the immigration authorities informed its officers that the information on the impending attack was from the Presidency.
4. We’ll raise infrastructure finance from N13tn pension funds, others – CBN [Punch Newspaper]
The Governor, Central Bank of Nigeria, Mr Godwin Emefiele, has said Nigeria plans to finance infrastructure projects with banking and pension monies.
According to him, the Federal Government is seeking to reduce its external debts by generating funds through internal sources to finance its projects.
Emefiele made this known while speaking on how the government plans to raise the N15tn funding for the Infrastructure Corporation of Nigeria Limited.
