Nigerian Newspapers: 7 Things You Need To Know Today 1 March 2022

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2. Detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, Mazi Nnamdi Kanu is very much alive and still being detained in the facility of the Department of State Services, DSS, his lawyer, Mr. Ifeanyi Ejiofor disclosed on Monday. Ejiofor, in a statement he published on his official Facebook page, gave an update on his legal team’s routine visit to Kanu at the DSS headquarters in Abuja.

3. Some of the Nigerians, who are trapped over the crisis between Russia and Ukraine, are not willing to return to the country. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyema, disclosed this when he met with Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila, on Monday.

4. The National Association of Nigerian Students, NANS, on Monday, staged a protest in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, and some other parts of the nation over the lingering strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU.

5. Some Nigerians, whose children are studying in Ukraine, stormed the Russian embassy in Abuja on Monday. The parents, who wielded different placards, asked Russia to end the invasion of Ukraine, which entered its fifth day on Monday.

6. The Supreme Court, yesterday, in Abuja fixed May 27 for judgment in a suit by former Rivers State governor, Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, seeking to stop his probe in an alleged N96 billion fraud and fraudulent sales of valued assets belonging to Rivers State.

7. The Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) says it will not call off the one-month warning strike it began on February 14. Emmanuel Osodeke, President of the union, who spoke yesterday, emphasized that ASUU would not be backing down on the strike as the FG has consistently failed to keep the promises made to the union years back.