Nigerian Newspapers Daily Front Pages Review | Friday, 5 November, 2021

Ezenwoko’s Blog looks at the top happenings making headlines on the front pages of Nigeria’s national newspapers today Friday, November 5th 2021.

The corpses of the Managing Director, Fourscore Heights Limited, Mr Femi Osibona, and his friend, a United States of America-based Nigerian businessman, Wale Bob-Oseni, have been recovered from the 21-storey building that collapsed on Gerrard Road in the Ikoyi area of Lagos State, The PUNCH reports.

The Guardian reports that amid the brewed mix of fear and optimism ahead tomorrow’s governorship election in Anambra State, the outlawed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) last night cancelled the one-week sit-at-home order it issued across the Southeast.

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA), This Day says, has vowed not to relent until all those involved in last week’s raid on the Abuja home of Justice Mary Peter-Odili, the number two Justice of the Supreme Court.

Falmata Abubakar, the mother of the late vicious Boko Haram leader, Abubakar Shekau, said she regretted giving birth to him because he was a tragedy to humanity, Daily Trust reports.

Daily Independent leads with reports of palpable fear in Anambra State as the much anticipated gover­norship election to determine the successor of the incumbent governor, Willie Obiano, holds tomorrow.

Britain on Thursday became the first country in the world to approve a potentially game-changing COVID-19 antiviral pill jointly developed by US-based Merck and Ridgeback Biotherapeutics, in a boost to the fight against the pandemic, Nigerian Tribune reports.

Thank you for reading, that all for today, see you again tomorrow for a review of Nigerian newspapers.