Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:
1. President Goodluck Jonathan will today visit Uyo state to commission a gas processing facility, including a 69-kilometre gas pipeline at Uquo-Ibeno. The state Commissioner for Information and Communications, Mr. Aniekan Umanah disclosed the President’s visit in a statement, assuring that all had been put in place to ensure the security of the President.
2. Chairman, Organisation and Mobilisation Committee of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the South-West, Prince Buruji Kashamu, has debunked the claims that President Goodluck Jonathan abused state power for deploying security operatives to Osun State during last Saturday’s governorship election. Kashamu in a statement said it was time political leaders discard politics of bitterness and rancour, and play the game with some level of decency and maturity.
3. Minister of Information, Labaran Maku, on Wednesday stated that about 198 cases of Ebola virus infections have been recorded in the country. The Minister further disclosed that of the cases, 177 are said to be in Lagos, while the remaining 21 are in Enugu. He also disclosed that so far, only three persons have lost their lives to the virus.
4. The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has said it will not ‘eat its words’ in the position taken against President Goodluck Jonathan to before or by October rescue the abducted Chibok schoolgirls or forget his second term ambition. A member of the forum and former Vice-Chancellor of the Ahmadu Bello University, Prof Ango Abdullahi said the forum was ready to carry out its threat regardless of any kind of opposition.
5. The government of Osun state has denied the allegation by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate, Senator Iyiola Omisore, that its Deputy Governor, Grace Titilayo Laoye-Tomori was arrested for carrying ammunition during the state election. Reacting to Omisore’s claim, the chief press secretary to the Deputy Governor, Mr. Tope Ademakinwa said that the allegation was a lie and aimed at causing confusion in the state and hatred for the Deputy Governor.
6. Enugu State Deputy Governor, Mr. Sunday Onyebuchi, on Wednesday slumped while testifying before the panel of enquiry that is investigating allegations of impeachable offences levelled against him by the state House of Assembly. The Deputy Governor had testified for about three hours when he started complaining of dizziness and thereafter, collapsed into his seat.
7. Falconets came from a goal down to beat England 2-1 to emerge leader of Group C, with 7 points, and qualifying for the quarter-finals of the ongoing FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Canada.
8. The National Emergency Management Agency on Wednesday disclosed that statistics at their disposal shows that over 400,000 persons had been internally displaced in the troubled North-eastern region of the country since January. Information Officer of the Northeast zonal office of the agency, AbdulKadir Ibrahim gave the breakdown of the figure.
9. Kaduna State Governor, Mukhtar Yero on Wednesday denied ever receiving intelligence on the twin bomb blasts that killed and injured several people in the state in July. Responding to media reports that indicted him of receiving intelligence report prior to the blast, his Director-General, Media and Public Affairs, Ahmed Mayaki, said the governor had no security report that gave him a fore-warning on the twin blasts.
10. The Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Adesola Amosu, has approved the redeployment of Senior Officers of the service. The new postings and redeployment, according to a statement by the Director, Public Relations and Information of the Air Force, Air Commodore Dele Alonge, affected 29 senior officers, comprising 14 Air Vice Marshals, 14 Commodores and a Group Captain. The spokesman said that the postings were expected to take immediate effect.
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