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Good morning! Here are things you need to know this morning:According to Dailypost.

A former Minister of Internal Affairs, Gen. John Shagaya (rtd), has called on Nigerians to support Buhari in 2015 in order bring back the nation’s lost glory.Speaking at a news conference organized by Buhari Friends Organisation in Abuja, the ex-minister said Nigeria was lagging behind because of corruption and insecurity in the land

-Ahead of the 2015 general elections, Lagos State Governor Babatunde Fashola, has advised Nigerians against voting based on religious or ethnic sentiments.

The governor enjoined electorates to vote based on merit.

Fashola said this while addressing a large gathering at the monthly draw of the Lagos Home Ownership Mortgage Scheme on Wednesday.

The governor advised Nigerians to be careful of politicians, who only remembered them during the election period to make promises they will never fulfil.

- A female bomber yesterday blew up herself while attempting to bomb some students at the Federal Collage of Education in Kotangora, Niger state. About three persons were also injured in the attack. The Niger State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Ibrahim Gambari, who confirmed the incident, said it was only the female bomber that died. He also said only three persons were injured.

-Nigerian Senators on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party had after their closed door meeting yesterday, concluded that they would resume their work-to-rule protest following the insistence by PDP governors that President Jonathan reviews the agreement he reached with the Senators over the controversial automatic ticket.

-A meeting aimed at presenting a Northern Consensus candidate for the APC which held at the Transcorp Hilton, Abuja on Wednesday was boycotted by some of the presidential aspirants. Only Atiku Abubakar attended the parley.

- Following complaints by South African government that the bodies of those killed in the synagogue collapsed building were being held for too long, Governor Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday gave an approval on the repatriation of 54 corpses to South Africa.

- The Ekiti State House of Assembly Speaker, Dr. Adewale Omirin, has accused Governor Ayodele Fayose of freezing the bank accounts of the state Assembly. He also decried alleged continuous blackmail and intimidation of the Assembly members by the Governor over the refusal of the 19 All Progressives Congress members to defect to the Peoples Democratic Party.

- A Senior Advocate of Nigeria, Mr. Femi Falana, has taken on political leaders in the country for the loss of thousands of lives to Boko Haram sect. Falana was of the opinion that leaders promote religion to the detriment of the unity of the country, hence the growing insurgents’ activities. He was speaking on Wednesday at the 7th edition of Emeritus Prof. David Ijalaiye (SAN) and celebration of his 50th years of service.

- An Ikeja High Court on Wednesday ordered the Lagos State Chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) to pay the sum of N10.5 million as professional fees to a lawyer, Mr Debo Adeleke.The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Justice Oluwatoyin Ipaye, who delivered the summary judgment, also awarded N50,000 cost against the party.Adeleke had instituted the suit against the PDP national executive and its Lagos State chapter over the party’s failure to pay him his outstanding legal fees.

- A Peoples Democratic Party’s presidential aspirant, Prof. Akasoba Duke-Abiola, has asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to stop the party from nominating any candidate for the 2015 election following the constant refusal of the party to issue her nomination and expression of interest forms after she had paid N2m for the said forms.

- Report says a mysterious fire had razed 100 house in Soro town, Ganjuwa Local Government Area of Bauchi State.
Acting District Head of Soro, Alhaji Muhammad Kilishi, said the local government cannot exactly say what led to the fire outbreak.

-Local hunters in Maiha Local Government Area of Adamawa State have disclosed that 80 members of the Boko Haram insurgents were reportedly killed yesterday in their encounter with them. Report says the hunters had as a result, recovered Mahia Local Government headquarters from the hands of the insurgents.

-.A trader on Afro Close, Afromedia Estate, Okokomaiko, Lagos who deals on electronic appliances,, Mr. Lawrence Ikonne, has been arrested for killing a buyer, Isa Yaya, over a dispute arising from price bargaining.

Punch reports that the 22-year-old victim who is a Northerner, had gone to Ikonne’s apartment to buy a fairly used air conditioner on the morning of Friday, October 10.

They, however, had a disagreement as they started haggling over the price.

Yaya insisted on buying the air conditioner below N5, 000- a price which did not go down well with Ikonne.

As the haggling continued, a fight was said to have ensued between the two which turned violent during which Ikonne allegedly hit Yaya with a plank in the belly.

In his statement to the police, the trader said, “I had not met the young man before. I met him that morning at the Alaba market, and asked him to buy one of my appliances: an air conditioner. He actually looked like a cart pusher. When we got home, we both went in to remove the product, and we brought it outside for negotiation.

“As we continued, he said he would pay less than N5, 000. I replied that he should assist me to return it to where we took it from, but he refused. In the process, we started fighting. He even asked me to pay him for helping me bring it out. I was mad, and I hit his belly with a plank.

“When I realised he had fainted, I tied him with a rope and dragged him into a corner. I also fled the house.”

Confirming the report, the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, DSP Kenneth Nwosu, said investigations were still ongoing.