Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Sunday, 5 December, 2021

Ezenwoko’s Blog looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Sunday, December, 5th 2021.

According to The PUNCH, the Inter-Governmental Action Group against Money Laundering in West Africa, established by the Economic Community of West African States, says Boko Haram splinter group, Islamic State West Africa Province, moved about N18bn ($36m) generated from trading and taxing communities in the Lake Chad region through the Nigerian financial system annually.

On a day that the Islamic State of West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists shattered the peace of Borno State with multiple bombings, the Federal Government charged the intelligence community to adopt analytical, empirical, and data-driven approaches to tackle worsening insecurity in the country. The Guardian reports.

The United Kingdom (UK) yesterday added Nigeria to its Red List of countries, The Nation reports, whose nationals are prevented from entering its territory on account of the spread of the Omicron variant of Covid-19

Following the 21 cases of Omicron variant of COVID-19 reported in England, which are linked to travel from Nigeria, the United Kingdom has announced a temporary measure to prevent further cases of the virus from entering the country from 4a.m. tomorrow (Monday), according to This Day

Successive elected government officials, especially presidents, governors and federal lawmakers have whittled down party supremacy in their quest to control political machineries for personal aggrandisement, Daily Trust reports.

Communities affect­ed by the recent massive oil spill from a non-pro­ducing wellhead around OML 29 in Santa Barbara oilfield, Bayelsa State, are still in grief and misery, Independent reports.

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