Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:
1.The Senate President, Bukola Saraki was yesterday put in the dock at the Code of Conduct Tribunal during his trial over alleged false declaration of assets. Saraki who is facing a 13-cout charge pleaded not guilty to all the charges. The trial was adjourned to October 21.
2.Report has claimed that the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, has stopped the lawmaker representing Ondo-Central senatorial district, Senator Tayo Alasoadura, from attending South-West caucus meetings. The Senator was barred because of his alleged support for the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.
3.There is fear in Lagos over a fresh case of bird flu in the state. Report says an estimated 60,000 birds have already been affected. This was confirmed yesterday by the Executive Secretary of the Poultry Association of Nigeria, Lagos State chapter, Mr. Olugbenga Ogunsetan.The poultry farms mainly affected are located in Ikorodu area of the State.
4.The House of Representatives Ad-Hoc Committee on the Non-Implementation of the 2015 Capital Budget has faulted the executive expenditure of N222.1bn on fuel subsidies from January to July, 2015. Chairman of the committee, Aliyu Pategi (APC Kwara), said the money was neither appropriated nor approved by the National Assembly.
5. Former governor of Rivers State, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has sued the Peoples Democratic Party in the state, its Chairman, Chief Felix Obuah, and two others at the Abuja High Court over allegations that he embezzled $757m (N80bn) belonging to the state as the then State governor, and for alleging that the said amount had been lodged in Amaechi’s foreign account.
6. Despite the violence that characterized the Bayelsa State’s Governorship primaries of the All Progressives Congress (APC), yesterday, report says former Governor of the state, Chief Timipre Sylva won the parallel exercise organised by the state executive of the APC with 726 of the 807 votes cast.
7. Former governor of Jigawa State, Alhaji Sule Lamido, and his two sons, Aminu Sule Lamido as well as Mustapha Sule Lamido, were again arraigned on Tuesday before Justice Ademola Adeniyi of a Federal High Court in Abuja, on a 27-count amended charge bordering on corruption and money laundering. Also arraigned were those through whom they perpetrated the act. They are Aminu Wada Abubakar, Batholomew Darlington Agoha and companies.
8. Report says the kidnappers a former Minister of Finance, Chief Olu Falae, have rejected the N2m raised by the family to secure his release and have demanded for N90m ransom. The latest demand is coming after the first demand of N100m.
9. According to report this morning, no fewer than 27 persons were killed and 62 others injured during bomb attacks on Monguno, a town near Maiduguri, the capital of Borno State. Report further revealed that the incident happened when an explosion from a suicide bomber hit the Onion section of a local market at Monguno on Sunday evening.
10. Nigerian Senators have said they are solidly behind the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, despite his current problem. In a statement signed by Senator Ibrahim Abdullahi Danbaba, on behalf of the Eighth Senate, the Senators expressed delight over Saraki’s appearance at the CCT, saying it was a way of trying to clear himself of the allegations levelled against him.
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