Reports on the long queues in banking halls and ration of old naira notes to customers dominated the cover pages of Nigerian newspapers.
Sunday Punch says banks continue to ration old naira notes to customers, who thronged banking halls on Saturday. The newspaper reports that Lucky Irabor, the chief of defence, said 13,360 Boko Haram fighters surrendered in 18 months.
Daily Trust explains why the All Progressives Congress won more states in the February 25 presidential election despite a series of upsets. The newspaper says ethnicity, violence, and internal crisis influenced governorship elections in the southern part of Nigeria. THISDAY reports that the APC and the Peoples Democratic Party are in verbal war over an alleged plot to truncate the inauguration of Bola Tinubu, the president-elect. The newspaper says the Department of State Services said it will not tolerate political actors who champion anarchy.
The Nation says Tinubu has alleged that members of the opposition parties are plotting to stall his inauguration on May 29 and install an interim government. The newspaper reports Ohanaeze elders said there is no war between Igbo and Yoruba in Lagos. The Guardian reports that governors-elect are expected to collect their certificates of return from March 29 to March 31. The newspaper says at least 80 operators of point of sales terminals were arrested in Ondo state by operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission over alleged involvement in buying and selling of naira notes.
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