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

1. President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday, during an Inter-faith conference said the heavy deployment of soldiers for the just-concluded Osun gubernatorial poll was very effective, saying the trend would continue in the 2015 general elections. He dismissed fear being expressed by some people he tagged doom prophets, that Nigeria will break up as a result of the 2015 election.

2. The Osun state branch of the PDP has vowed to challenge the result of the recent Osun election, saying that the election was mared by irregularities. The state chairman of the party, Alhaji Ganiyu Olaoluwa, in a statement issued in Osogbo yesterday, said the PDP would contest the results released by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) whenever the election tribunal is set up.

3. The Nigerian Army has reacted to the action of some women and children of military officers in Borno state who stopped a troop heading for an operation, and demanding better equipment for the soldiers. The Army has warned them to stop carrying out such an act henceforth as it was wrong to say the soldiers were not well equipped.

4. A 46-year-old man impersonating as an Assistant Commissioner of Police has been nabbed by the lagos State government. The man identified as Alexander Abiodun was arrested with ASP Police uniform. He however condessed that the uniform was being used to bring cars into the country without being harassed at the boarders.

5.Supporters of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress APC, on Monday clashed in Ile-Ife, leaving scores with various degrees of injuries. Report says supporters of PDP allegedly attacked the APC when they were celebrating the victory of their candidate, Governor Rauf Aregbesola, in the Saturday governorship election.

6. The impeachment panel investigating allegations against Enugu State Deputy Governor, Sunday Onyebuchi, had on Monday asked Mrs Ifeoma Nwobodo, Chief of Staff to Governor Sullivan Chime and three other officials of the government to appear before it and to testify on some critical issues that arose in the course of the panel’s proceedings.

7. As the spread of the Ebola virus continues even with the discovery that another nurse has contracted the virus, President Goodluck Jonathan has called on all Governors of the 36 states including their health Commissioners in order to find a reasonable solution to the spread of the virus.

8. Boko Haram is not done yet as it has sent a threat message to fleeing residents in Borno state. The letter was addressed to Survivors of the sect’s attacks in the southern Borno ethnic minority communities who fled to the northern Adamawa areas of Madagali, Michika and Lasa.

9. There was panic at the Arrival Hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Monday, as a passenger slumped and died. Report says when the passenger slumped in front of the Port Health Services office, while waiting to collect his vaccination card, usually known as Yellow Card, staff and passengers fled the scene out of fear that he must have died of the deadly Ebola Virus Disease.

 10. Seven staff of a bank in Barkin Ladi Local Government Area of Plateau State have been arrested for allegedly defrauding the bank and its customers to the tune of N14 million. Report says the staff broke into the Automated Teller Machine (ATM) of the bank and left with some undisclosed amount and at the same time, engaged in illegal withdrawals from the accounts of some customers.

IN OTHER NEWS----

Liberia to receive ZMapp drug 
Liberia will receive the experimental drug ZMapp to treat its citizens infected with the Ebola virus. The news came after a request by the Liberian President Ellen Johnson  Sirleaf to the United States. The US government officials say they have successfully put Liberian officials in touch with ZMapp maker Mapp Biopharmaceuticals. ZMapp has so far produced improvements on the two US aid workers on which it was used. 

Tenth Ebola case recorded in Nigeria 

A second nurse who was said to have attended to the Liberian Ebola victim Patrick Sawyer has been confirmed to have the virus. This brings the number of confirmed cases in Nigeria to 10 including the Liberian victim. All confirmed cases have so far been linked to Patrick Sawyer. The infected nurse was living alone with her newly wedded husband. He is currently under surveillance while she has been put in isolation.  

Fashola Says 5 Ebola victims are stable 

The Lagos state Governor Babatunde Fashola has indicated that 5 vases of the Ebola virus disease are currently stabilized and the patients are in good condition. Two of which are currently up and about within the health facility. He spoke with traditional leaders and local government chiefs as well as health workers. According to the Governor the mortality rate has reduced by 90 percent. 

Jonathan says Nigeria will remain one entity  
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday have reassurance to Nigerians and the international community of a free and fair 2015 election poll free of any incidents. He also dismissed speculation and prediction of the country's disintegration. Speaking at an Interfaith Conference in Abuja the president justified the use of heavy security in the elections and cited this as an example of the commitment to a free and fair election. He also cited PDP loss in Edo, Anambra, Ondo and Osun states as a clear state that the party is not manipulating elections.



Ex-militant heads task force for waterways security 
Governor Seriake Dickson has appointed the former leader of the now defunct ( MEND ) Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta Ebikabowei Victor-Ben and 10 others to lead an 11 man special task force to secure creeks and waterways. This comes after the ex-militant leaders assisted the Nigerian Police and The Department of State Security Services to secure the release of three abductees viz Senator Emmanuel Paulker's 90 year old mother and brother to Speaker of State House of Assembly.


Military arrest suspected suicide bomb handlers 

Security operatives in Kano state have arrested a man Ibrahim Ibrahim who is believed to have masterminded the recent suicide bomb attacks in the state. He was found in possession of 16 girls. He was taken in a hideout in Dala quarters in Kano. It is not clear whether the girls are part of the Chibok abducted girls but Capt. Okechukwu Eze of 3 Brigade Nigerian Army says that investigations are ongoing. 

Northern leaders give Jonathan October ultimatum to crush Boko Haram. 

The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has given President Goodluck Jonathan a deadline of October 2014 to bring back the 200 girls abuducted by Boko Haram at Chibok. The group believes that Boko haram is intended by to weaken the northern Nigeria politically and economically for electoral benefits. Dr Hakkem Baba-Ahmed and Solomon Dalung said in Kaduna that the current rate of insurgency poses a threat to the 2015 elections and has advised the government to take decisive action. The group has condemned the attitude of the Presidency towards tackling Boko Haram as nonchalant. 

Confab recommends new constitution. 

The National Conference on Monday presented a draft of the new constitution to delegates amid comments from Northern delegates that the document was " strange and illegal. The document was delivered by the Conference Secretary Valerie Azimge on behalf of the Chairman Justice Kutigi. Delegates were asked to carefully study the document As there will be a sitting tomorrow. 

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