Good morning! Here are 10 things you need to know this morning:
1. Nigerian Army and local hunters, Wednesday night recaptured Mubi from the hands of the Boko Haram insurgents. Report further says five Nigerian Armoured Personnel Carriers earlier seized by the Islamists were recovered after the town was recaptured.
2. The Nigerian Senate has summoned Nigerian Chief of Army Staff, Major Gen. Kenneth Minimah to its session to explain the continuous capturing of the territories by Islamist Boko Haram militants.
4. The Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, on Thursday said that Nigeria would this month start to feel the impact of the falling oil prices that started since June. She said that as a result, the country was expected to brace for tougher times ahead by reviewing its expenditures and building economic buffers through budgets that would be based on modest oil prices.
5. The United States has insisted that it was not ready to sell fighter helicopter to Nigeria considering its concern over the ability of the Nigerian Military to use the helicopter effectively. State Department spokeswoman, Jen Psaki, disclosed on Wednesday.
6. Report says the House of Representatives has not received yet any detailed breakdown of the $1bn loan the National Assembly approved for President Goodluck Jonathan last July for the procurement of military hardware and the training of members of the armed forces to beef up the war against Boko Haram insurgents.
7. The All Progressives Congress has again challenged the Federal Government to expose and prosecute sponsors of the Boko Haram Sect since it says it knows the sponsors. The National Chairman of the party, Chief John Oyegun, had challenged the PDP at a press briefing on the state of the nation in Abuja on Thursday to do so and on time.
8. Commercial banks in Akure, the ondo state capital closed abruptly on Thursday when information filtered in that some armed robbers were in the town to invade some banks.
9. Police in Onitsha are currently interrogation an unnamed man for allegedly killing a pregnant woman in what is believed to be a marathon sex. Report alleged that the man took the woman to a hotel in the commercial city only for the woman to die after a marathon sex. Report says the woman was 7-month pregnant.
10. The Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENGASSAN, are holding a joint emergency meeting on Monday to conclude on its planned strike action. The unions had threatened that they would embark on a strike action if the management of Total Exploration and Production, TOTAL E&P does not recall sacked members of the unions within 14 days.
Written by NEWSTRAWL ONLINE UPDATE
Sodiq Oyeleke is a Media, Human Resources, Project Management and Public Relations Practitioner
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