Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:
1.The Presidency, in reaction to the call by the opposition APC that President Jonathan resigns for failing to tackle the present insurgency has said that there is no part of the world where the President resigns during war. It challenged the leadership of the All Progressives Congress to tell Nigerians where such had happened before. This was contained in a statement issued on behalf of the President by his Senior Special Assistant on Public Affairs, Dr. Doyin Okupe.
2. The President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote remains in the 23rd position as the richest man in Africa, according to Forbes magazine. Dangote is now worth $25bn and is also the first black man to be named among the 25 richest people in the world.
3. The Lagos State Police Command has arrested a Divisional Police Officer, Mr. Oladipo Afolayan, for allegedly raping a woman he was investigating in his office.
4. Speaking shortly after submitting his forms to contest the senatorial seat for the North-West Senatorial District of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio, Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party governors said the party’s governors were no threat to the ambitions of the serving Senators who want to return to the Senate next year, saying their protest over governors’ takeover of party structures in their states was unnecessary.
5. Members of the South-West Committee of the All Progressives Congress had a meeting on Thursday on how to ensure that former Governor of Ogun State, Olusegun Osoba, the embattled Deputy Governor, Segun Adesegun, and others who recently defected to the Social Democratic Party reconsider their decision and return to the party.
6. Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state has exonerated himself from all alleged negative activities in the PDP while he was a member of the party. He told journalists how he had constantly stood against rigging in the party.
7. The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Lagos State chapter has blamed Governor Babatunde Fashola for misleading Lagosians regarding the duty of the federal task force. The party in a statement by its Publicity Secretary, Mr. Taofik Gani, said the governor got it wrong having informed Lagosians to stand against the job of officials of the task force.
8. The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party has denied that the executive committee of the party’s chapter in Ondo State has been dissolved. The PDP and 12 of its national officers denied this in a written address and a counter-affidavit, both dated November 3, 2014, which they filed before Justice Sylvanus Oriji of a Federal Capital Territory High Court in Apo, Abuja.
9. Report says government is currently reviewing the process of recruitment into the Nigeria Army following the continuously failure of the military in the fight against insurgency. Government believes wrong people are most times recruited into the army, resulting into the present challenges in its fold.
10. Governor James Ngilari of Adamawa State, yesterday, lamented the growing activities of insurgency in his state, calling on President Goodluck Jonathan to save the state from being taken over by the Boko Haram militants. Ngilari was at the Presidential Villa, Abuja to plead with the federal government to rise to the challenge.
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