EFCC sets up special team to grill Fayose over corruption charges (Punch)
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has set up a special team to interrogate Governor Ayodele Fayose of Ekiti State next week, The PUNCH can confirm. Fayose, who has been governor since October 16, 2014, will lose his immunity at exactly 11.59pm on October 15, 2018, thereby giving the EFCC the constitutional right to arrest, detain and prosecute him. Read more
Herdsmen attacks: Don’t play with people’s lives, Afenifere cautions Tinubu (Punch)
The Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere, has condemned a former Lagos State Governor and All Progressives Congress leader, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, for advising the Federal Government to convert unused land to grazing reserves. The group said the APC chieftain was free to play politics the way he liked but cautioned him against playing with people’s lives by making outlandish propositions. Read more
2019: Secondus, others meet Atiku over running mate, campaign council (Punch)
The national leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party led by its National Chairman, Prince Uche Secondus, has met with the 2019 presidential candidate of the party, Atiku Abubakar. The meeting, which held at the party’s presidential campaign office, otherwise known as Legacy House, Maitama, Abuja, on Sunday night, was the first interface the party would have with Atiku since he won the presidential primary in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, on Sunday morning. Read more
Lagos type of godfatherism can’t work in Benue – Ortom (Punch)
Governor Samuel Ortom of Benue State, on Tuesday, told Senator George Akume that the type of godfatherism being practised in Lagos State would not work in Benue. Ortom said Akume was attacking him not because he had not performed but because he refused to submit to the control of Akume, who was Benue State Governor between 1999 and 2007. Read more
IG removes Plateau CP, successor resumes (Punch)
The Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris, has removed the Plateau State Commissioner of Police, Undie Adie, with immediate effect. A statement by the Spokesperson for the Plateau State Police Command, Matthias Tyopev, announcing the removal, gave no details. Read more
Cleric warns politicians against desperation (Punch)
The Vice Chairman of the Christian Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria in Akwa Ibom State, Apostle Ime George, has asked politicians in the country to exercise caution and avoid desperation. Reacting to the killing of three All Progressives Congress members in Akwa Ibom State during the party’s primaries last week, the cleric said it was a pity that an exercise which was supposed to produce credible leaders for the running of the country resulted in bloodshed. Read more
Man jumps out of moving danfo, crushed at Oshodi (Guardian)
There was pandemonium at Oshodi area of Lagos State yesterday as a passenger jumped out of a moving commercial bus, popularly known as Danfo. The man (names withheld) was knocked down immediately by another vehicle coming behind the bus. Read more
Ondo lecturer burnt to death in mysterious fire (Guardian)
Tragedy struck yesterday at the Ondo State University of Science and Technology (OSUSTECH), Okitipupa, as a 65-year-old lecturer, Prof. Adegboyega Obadofin, was burnt to death. The deceased was the Acting Dean, Faculty of Agricultural Sciences of the university. He died in the ugly incident that occurred at his residence located at Ayeka, a nearby community to the university. Read more
Fiancée of missing Saudi journalist appeals directly to Trump for help (CNN)
Jamal Khashoggi’s fiancée implored President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump “to help shed light on” his disappearance in an op-ed published by The Washington Post on Tuesday evening. Khashoggi, a prominent Saudi journalist, vanished October 2 after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. As a columnist for the Post, Khashoggi was a frequent critic of the Saudi regime. Read more
Huge sinkhole kills four people (CNN)
Four people have died after they were swallowed up by a massive sinkhole in a Chinese city, despite desperate rescue efforts to save them. According to state media, the sinkhole opened up around 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Dazhou, Sichuan province. Dramatic video from the scene showed people suddenly plunging through the pavement as it collapsed beneath them. Read more
We’ll rule athletics, swimming, Uniport boasts ahead 2018 WAUG Games (Guardian)
As the countdown continues ahead of the 2018 West African Universities Games (WAUG), the host, University of Port Harcourt has boasted that it would teach all the participating universities a ‘free lesson in the art of graceful conquest’ in track and field, as well as swimming events. Read more
Former boxing champion urges Nigerians to pray for Leah’s release (Guardian)
The call by former Super Eagles defender, Emeka Ezeugo on both active and retired sportsmen to press for the immediate release of Leah Sharibu by Boko Haram terrorists has received support from former British and Commonwealth boxing champion, Peter Oboh. Leah, the 15-year-old female student of Government Girls’ Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, was one of the 110 students abducted by the dreaded Islamic sect on February 19, 2018. Read more
Sierra Leone’s FIFA suspension ends country’s AFCON dream (Guardian)
Sierra Leone’s African Nations Cup qualifier against Ghana in Kumasi will not go ahead tomorrow after the country’s football association failed to get a FIFA suspension lifted, reports Reuters. Sierra Leone authorities, who had petitioned FIFA to get the ban lifted, did not meet yesterday’s deadline to reinstate ousted football association president Isha Johansen, who is accused of corrupt,tion by government officials. Read more
Djokovic through, Cilic, Thiem knocked out of Shanghai Masters (Guardian)
The fifth seeded Cilic won the first set quickly and could have won the match in the second set but lost the tie break 8-10. Cilic got a break in the fifth game of the third set and served to extend the lead 4-2 and it seemed he was on the way to victory. Read more
We steal motorcycles to reduce number of bikes in my village – Suspect (Punch)
A suspect, Abdullahi Abubakar, who was arrested for stealing a motorcycle in Niger State, has said that it was easier to sell unregistered motorcycles. He also said that he and his accomplices steal motorcycles to reduce the number of bikes in his village. Abubakar, 25, of Kabe Village in New Bussa Local Government Area, was arrested for allegedly dispossessing Onyeka Ezeudu of Babanna village in New Bussa of his motorcycle. Read more
Masquerade stabs job seeker to death hours before resuming at Dangote Cement (Guardian)
A masquerade, who stabbed a young applicant, Femi Makanjuola, aged 30, to death in Akure, Ondo State capital, has been arrested by the police. The deceased, who just got employment with Dangote Group of Companies, was expected to resume his new job on Monday, but met his untimely death on Saturday evening. Read more