Good Morning!....Here's The News In Brief!

Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:

1. President Goodluck Jonathan on Tuesday declared his 2015 presidential re-election bid, saying that he was determined not to abandon Nigeria in the face of adversity. Jonathan who admitted that there are challenges of insecurity facing his government promised to deal with insurgents in the North, and as well free the over 200 girls abducted from Chibok since April this year.

2. The Independent National Electoral Commission has finally suspended the widely condemned 30,000 polling units it recently created until after the 2015 general elections.

3. Jonathan’s declaration for 2015 witnessed a partial setback yesterday as former President, Chief Olusegun obasanjo was conspicuously absent. Obasanjo who stayed away from the declaration did not send a representative either. Also absent was former Head of States, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida.

4. Report says a former Commissioner for Rural Development and a governorship aspirant of the All Progressives Congress, Tola Kasali, 62, was on Tuesday arraigned in a Lagos court for murder. Also arraigned were the Special Adviser to the Lagos State Governor on Politics and Legislative Matters, Musiliu Folami, 64, and Kasali’s Chief Security Officer, Tobun Abiodun, 38. They were arraigned on four counts bordering on murder and unlawful possession of firearms. The accused were granted bail having pleaded not guilty to the crime.

5. Eight lawmakers in the Ogun State House of Assembly had on Tuesday defected to both the Peoples Democratic Party and the Social Democratic Party from the All Progressives Congress, APC and PPN. Those who defected include Salmon Adeleke, Joseph Adegbesan, and John Obafemi. They moved to the PDP. Meanwhile, Olufemi Allen-Taylor, Oludaisi Elemide and Elizabeth Anifowose moved to the SDP.

6. The Dangote Foundation has promised to donate $3m to a fund established by the African Union to contain the Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa. Making the pledge on behalf of the foundation in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, during a meeting with some AU business leaders, the President, Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote said the foundation was committed to ensuring that Ebola is thrown out of Africa.

7. A 32-year-old pastor has been remanded in prison for allegedly raping and impregnating an 11-year-old girl in Lagos State. Report says the pastor’s church is located at Odunbaku Street in Iju Ishaga. He was arraigned at a Senior Magistrates’ Court, Abule Egba, Lagos State over the said offence.

8. The All Progressives Congress, APC, in a release by its Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammad has described the Tuesday’s declaration of President Goodluck Jonathan as highly insensitive, affirming that the President was dancing Azonto on the graves of the secondary school children recently killed in Potiskum, Yobe state.

9. Report this morning says father of the founder of Leadersgip Group and APC presidential aspirant, Sam Nda-Isaiah,
Pal Ndanusa is dead. He died in Kaduna this morning after a brief illness and at the age of 80

10. Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun State has said that the deteriorating security situation in the country was sad and painful. Aregbesola was speaking while delivering a lecture titled, ‘Federalism, democracy and the future of Nigeria,’ during the Convocation Lecture and 66th Foundation Day Ceremony of the University of Ibadan on Tuesday. 

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