Naija News: Top Nigerian News headlines for today, Monday 31st October 2022

Naija News, read Top Headlines today, Monday, 31st October 2022 below.

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

1. Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, has dared the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), Senator Iyorcha Ayu, over his comment to stop the political aspirations of Benue Governor Samuel Ortom and others in 2023.

Wike, while briefing journalists at his private residence in Port Harcourt on Sunday, said Ayu lacked integrity, insisting the PDP chairman was corrupt.

2. Speaker Benue State House of Assembly and gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) Rt Hon Titus Uba alongside other members of the State Assembly Saturday, 29th October 2022 visited victims of herdsmen attacks receiving treatment at the Benue State University Teaching Hospital Makurdi.

Engr Uba commiserated with the victims who suffered various degrees of injuries ranging from gunshots, and matchet cuts and called on security agencies to do more in securing the lives and properties of the people of the state.

3. Nollywood actress, Empress Njamah, has remembered her late colleague, Ada Ameh’s daughter, Aladi, who died in 2020.

Njamah posted photos from Aladi’s burial on her Instagram page on Sunday.

4. Marcus Rashford reached 100 goals for Manchester United by converting a fine header in Sunday’s Premier League meeting with West Ham.

Rashford met Christian Eriksen’s delicate right-wing delivery with a powerful header at the back post after 38 minutes at Old Trafford, putting Erik ten Hag’s side 1-0 up.

5. President Muhammdu Buhari, has said that the decision of the Central Bank of Nigeria to launch new designs and replace high value naira notes had his support.

Buhari said he is convinced that the nation will gain a lot by doing so.
“People with illicit money buried under the soil will have a challenge with this but workers and businesses with legitimate incomes will face no difficulties at all,” the official Twitter account of the presidency tweeted.

6. The Senate Public Account Committee has started investigating the N2.2bn unaccounted expenditure allegedly collected by the Federal Ministry of Justice between 2017 and 2021 from the Service Wide Votes Punch reports.

The Committee is currently going through the records of over 200 federal agencies that benefited from the more than N5trn that accrued to the Service Wide Votes, between 2017 and 2021

7. Arsenal returned to the top of the Premier League in style as forgotten man Reiss Nelson came off the bench for the injured Bukayo Saka to score a brace in a 5-0 win against Nottingham Forest.

England forward Saka seemed to take a knock in the opening minute but still teed up Gabriel Martinelli to break the deadlock, later limping off to be replaced by Nelson, who scored twice in three minutes before assisting Thomas Partey as captain Martin Odegaard wrapped up the win.

8. Leader of Afenifere, pan Yoruba socio-cultural association, Pa Reuben Fasoranti,has endorsed the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

Tinubu received the endorsement on Sunday at the country home of Pa Fasoranti.

Fasoranti countered the earlier endorsement of Labour Party presidential candidate, Peter Obi by Ayo Adebanjo-led faction of the group.

9. The Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Security Committee has introduced a Code of Conduct barring members of the vigilante groups operating in the various communities in the territory from using prohibited firearms.

The Director, of Information and Communication, FCT, Muhammad Sule, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.

He is currently undergoing treatment at an undisclosed hospital in Abuja.

10. Following the resumption of academic activities in public universities across Nigeria, the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has offered an advisory to parents to interface with various institutions’ management regarding the status of their wards academic programmes.

The JAMB gave this advice against the backdrop of the suspension of strike by the Academic Staff Union of Universities (ASUU), recently, a phenomenon that might have generated confusion on how to go about existing or halted academic programmes while the industrial action lasted.

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