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The Punch reports the federal government has been criticised over failure to address the country’s insecurity as 24 states failed to attract foreign investments in 2021. The Nigerian Medical Association (NMA) has revealed that the country has a deficit of 315,426 medical doctors to cater to the health needs of Nigerians, the newspaper says.

The Nation says the struggle for the 2023 presidential ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has split the party into three camps. The newspaper reports that the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) has confirmed that seven passengers who boarded the attacked Kaduna-bound train are still missing.

Nigerian Tribune says 22 villagers have been kidnapped at Anguwa Maji in Jere town of Kaduna some hours after Usman Baba, the inspector-general of police, declared the Abuja-Kaduna highway safe. The newspaper reports that Nuru Khalid, the suspended chief Imam of Apo legislative quarters Juma’at mosque, has been sacked.

Daily Independent reports that mass defection is looming in the All Progressives Congress (APC) over the emergence of Abdullahi Adamu as the party’s national chairman. The newspaper says the federal government has directed telecommunication companies to bar outgoing calls on all unlinked lines.

The Guardian says the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU) has asked Nigerians to hold the federal government responsible for the ongoing strike. The Jama’atu Nasril Islam (JNI) has criticised the federal government over the country’s rising insecurity, the newspaper reports.