Things You Need To Know This Morning

..this are things you need to know this morning..

1. The Economic and Financial crimes Commission, EFCC, Friday arrested former Akwa Ibom State Governor, Godswill Akpabio over alleged theft of N108.1billion of the State funds.

2. President Muhammadu Buhari has further assured Nigerians in an interview on Al Jazeera TV that his government will end Boko Haram in December. He however said he will not resign if he fails to meet the deadline, but would rather stay and fight it out.

3.Special Adviser to former President, Goodluck Jonathan on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati has condemned  a recent comment by Edwin Clark, that Jonathan lacked the will to fight corruption. Abati said  the statement was the worst form of humiliation his former principal received since he left office. He said Clark was a betrayal, cautioning that people like him should not be allowed to be part of any government.

4. The Federal Government, on Friday at the Court of Appeal sitting in Abuja. Boasted that it had  sufficient evidence to establish that the Senate President, Dr. Olubukola Saraki, as a public officer, acquired several assets beyond his legitimate earnings. The  prosecutor, Mr. Rotimi Jacobs, SAN, disclosed that five witnesses lined-up against the Senate President, have all expressed their readiness to appear before the Code of Conduct Tribunal, CCT, on October 21, to testify against Saraki.

5. Former Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Godswill Akpabio has reacted to his arrest by the EFCC, saying that he does not have any thing to hide a former Governor. Akpabio  who said his hands were clean avowed via his twitter handle that he was only invited another arrested as widely reported.

6. A South-East socio-political organization, Njiko Igbo Forum, has said the Igbos will never vote for the PDP again,  describing the Party and its leaders as cowards and bunch of ingrate. It gave its reason as the zoning of its 2019 presidential ticket to the North. The group said  it was the height of ingratitude to deny the South-East the presidential ticket despite getting block votes from the zone in 2015.

7.  Former Rivers State Governor, Rotimi Amaechi has written to the Senate President, Bukola Saraki to ignore the petition against him and clear him as a Minister of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Amaechi who wrote  through his lawyer, Edward E. Pepple of Edward and Williams and Co, said the entirety of the so-called petition and white paper ran foul of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and must be ignore by Saraki and his colleagues.

8. Nephew of Afrobeat legend, Fela Kuti and an officer in the Nigerian Army, Brigadier General Enitan Ransome-Kuti has been jailed for six months for allowing  Boko Haram Islamists to have capture military weapons during a deadly attack in the northeast. This was disclosed by his lawyer on Friday.
He was convicted at a five-member court martial in Abuja on Thursday.

9.  President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick, has called on the Super Eagles B team and Golden Eaglets, to put smiles on the faces of Nigerians this weekend as they embark on their various campaigns today.

10. Benue State Governor, Dr. Samuel Ortom, has declared that no amount of intimidation or blackmail will stop him from probing former Governor, Gabriel Suswam’s eight years rule in Benue State. Ortom made the statement on Friday in Makurdi at the ongoing Benue Stakeholders’ Forum held at the Benue People’s House.