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Naija News: Top Nigerian News headlines for today, Friday 4th November 2022

Naija News, read Top Headlines today, Friday 4th November 2022 below.

Below are the Newspaper Headlines & Naija News today from Nigerian Newspapers. Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers:

1. Many persons including women and children have been killed after suspected herdsmen attacked two communities in Ukohol Market in Guma Local Government Area of Benue State.

Residents told IDOMA VOICE that the first attack happened in Tswarev community in Mbamar, all Guma, where several villagers were butchered by suspected armed herdsmen.

The second attack happened Thursday evening at Ukohol Market where traders, mostly women, were killed.

2. Spokesman of the campaign and former national publicity secretary of PDP, Kola Ologbondiyan, told LEADERSHIP yesterday that the APC governors who are friends with Atiku have been in talks on how to support the PDP presidential candidate because they believe he has a more believable manifesto and better experience to manage Nigeria.

3. Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers state has Thursday 3rd November 2022 inaugurated the first batch of 100,000 Special Assistants on Political Unit Affairs for Rivers South-East and Rivers South West Senatorial Districts.

4. The Federal Government only paid lecturers under the aegis of the Academic Staff Union of Universities for 18 working days in the month of October. Lecturers and senior members of ASUU, who spoke to Punch, under strict confidence, noted that the government only paid half salaries.

5. Uk-based Nigerian pastor and close associate to Davido, Tobi Adegboyega has said that the singer and his lover are both getting stronger.

6. The Senator representing Benue South Senatorial District, Comrade Abba Moro, thanks President Muhammadu Buhari for the presidential assent given to the Federal University of Health Sciences, Otukpo (FUHSO) establishment Bill sponsored by the Senator on the floor of the Senate.

7. Again, Emirates Airline has suspended flights operations to Nigeria over its inability to repatriate funds trapped in the country.

8. The wife of the Commander of the Commandant General’s Special Intelligence Squad, Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Apollos Dan-Daura has been abducted by terrorists Sahara reports. Dan-Daura’s wife was abducted in the Shege area of Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital on Wednesday.

9. Amanda Azubuike, a United States Army officer of Nigerian descent, has been promoted to Brigadier General of the force. This was announced on Twitter by the Commanding General. United States Army Cadet Command, Maj. Gen. Antonio V. Munera on Thursday morning.

10. Twitter Inc. aims to start selling blue verification badges for user profiles as soon as next week, part of a plan by new owner Elon Musk to fight fake accounts and squeeze revenue from the company he bought for $44 billion.

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