TODAY IN THE NEWS Fomer Head of State, Maj-Gen. Mohammadu Buhari (retd.) No automatic ticket for Buhari, others –APC– Punch The All Progressives Congress has said there will be no automatic ticket for a former Head of State, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) and other presidential aspirants in the party. This was coming ahead the allegation that some leaders of the party had been planning to give automatic ticket to Buhari, a development that was said not to be favoured by Abubakar Atiku, Rabiu Kwankwaso and Senator Bukola Saraki’s groups within the party. But the National Publicity Secretary of the party, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said the APC would not give automatic ticket to Buhari. “We won’t give automatic ticket to anyone, including Buhari. It is not in our constitution. All the candidates will undergo primary,” Mohammed told one of our correspondents on the telephone on Sunday Airforce fighter jet Adamawa Farmers Claim Sighting Missing Fighter Jet- This Day • DHQ uncertain if plane was shot down or flew into sand storm • US: Nigeria did not understand severity of insurgency at the beginning • In hit-and-run tactic, Boko Haram attacks market near Maiduguri Local farmers in Gombi Local Government Area of Adamawa State yesterday claimed to have seen a low-flying aircraft that may have crashed at a place near Gabun, a mountainous village in the local council, three days ago. In a statement Sunday, the Defence Headquarters (DHQ) had declared an Alfa jet, which was on a regular mission in the campaign to flush out terrorists in the North-east, missing after contact could not be established with the crew. The statement, which was issued by the Director of Defence Information, Major-General Chris Olukolade, said the aircraft, with two pilots on board, left Yola at 10.45am on Friday on a routine operational mission and was expected back by 12 noon. TB Joshua suggests sabotage over deadly building collapse - Vanguard Nigerian preacher and televangelist TB Joshua on Sunday linked a deadly building collapse at his Lagos megachurch to a suspicious aircraft but rescue workers ruled out the theory of foul play. Joshua, dubbed “The Prophet” by fanatical followers because of his purported predictions and healing powers, showed footage of the moments leading up to the collapse on his emmanuel.tv network. Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said 42 people were killed in Friday’s incident, while 130 escaped or were pulled out alive from the rubble. Amaechi Rivers vows to resist alleged Presidency’s bid to impose PDP gov- Guardian Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, has warned that people of the state will resist any attempt by the Presidency to unconstitutionally install its preferred Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) aspirant as governor of the state, now or in the 2015 election. Amaechi’s reaction is predicated on reports in some newspapers over the weekend that the new Commissioner of Police, Dan Bature, has been directed by the Presidency to install a certain PDP gubernatorial aspirant as governor in the 2015 elections. The reports had it that the new Rivers Police commissioner has allegedly been instructed by the wife of the president to use the former Rivers Police Commissioner, Joseph Mbu’s draconian style and tactics in causing crisis in Rivers State. Competition seen in power sector as TEM begins November – Business Day The transitional electricity market (TEM), a stage that will ensure accountability and boost further investment in the Nigerian electricity market is expected to come on stream in November, BusinessDay has learnt. It was gathered that the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had in a meeting on Wednesday considered the launch of the TEM in about two months’ time. TEM represents the intermediate step to move the electricity market in an orderly manner from an integrated whole utility to a fully competitive market structure with more differentiated players. The electricity market is currently operating under a set of government interim rules. The interim rules were developed and issued by NERC in December 2013 to conduct the market in the pre-TEM phase until the declaration of TEM. The interim rules order was later modified with the revision taking place with effect from May 1, 2014. Jega Nigerians kick against new polling units – Daily Independent Nigerians mostly from the Southern part of the country are not relenting in their bashing of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for creating additional polling units that seem to favour the North in the build up to the 2015 general elections. Nearly every respondent to Daily Independent inquiry at the weekend took exception to the exercise. While some see it as a political fraud, others described the greater number of new polling units allocated to the North as “a coup against the Southern part of the country”. INEC Chairman, Attahiru Jega, recently defended the plan of his commission to create more than 31,000 new polling units for the country, saying the framework for the exercise was scientifically based rather than the sentiments that some Nigerians attach to it. Yoruba needs national builder –Alaafin - National Mirror As people of the South-West prepare for the 2015 general elections, the Alaafin of Oyo, Oba Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi III, has said that the Yoruba nation is in dire need of a national builder in the mould and character of the legendary Oranyan. The monarch stated this at the weekend in his palace in Oyo, during the closing ceremony of the week-long activities of the 3rd Oranyan festival. He said, “In spite of our heroic contribution to the Nigerian nation, the Yoruba ethnic group is almost relegated to the background in the scheme of things in Nigeria. It would almost seem that the central government has decided to look away from Yorubaland in the allocation of resources and in political power sharing. Suntai returns, thanks Nigerians– Tribune •Acting gov, Danjuma, others receive him TARABA State governor, Danbaba Suntai, on Saturday, returned to Nigeria after several months of medical trip to London. Suntai, who was involved in an air crash in 2012, returned after 10 months of medical trip abroad, but on his return, the Taraba State House of Assembly, said he was unfit to assume duties, then the governor left for another medical trip to London two months ago and returned on Saturday. The governor, who arrived at about 10.15 p.m. at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, was received by the acting governor of the state, Umar Garba, Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Dairus Ishaku and other top dignitaries in Taraba State. Lagos okays September 22 for schools’ resumption - The Nation The Lagos State government says all is set for schools’ resumption on September 22. The government, in a statement issued yesterday, explained its support for the date announced by the Federal Government. The statement reads: “Concerning the resumption of all public and private nursery, primary and secondary schools for the 2014/2015 session, Lagos State Government supports the September 22, 2014 date, which was announced by the Federal Government after a national consultation on efforts to contain the Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in Nigeria. “Although this resumption date is advisory, as education is a concurrent matter to be regulated by the respective Federal and States Authorities, Lagos State Government considers it eminently justifiable, in view of the fact that there is currently no known carrier of EVD in our State at the moment. Furthermore, the last individual suspected to have been exposed to the virus will be discharged from observation on September 18, 2014, if he tests negative for the virus. All public and private educational institutions in the State are therefore directed to schedule their resumption accordingly. 2015: Igbo presidency not on our agenda –Ohanaeze – The Sun …Defends Ihejirika on terrorism allegation …Rejects new polling units As the nation marches towards the 2015 general elections, the apex Igbo social-cultural group, Ohanaeze Ndigbo, has said that Igbo presidency is not on its agenda. President General of the organisation, Chief Gary Nnachi Enwo Igariwey, told Daily Sun in Abuja after a meeting with leaders of Igbo organisations in the 19 northern states and Abuja, that the group was not looking at Igbo presidency in 2015. He was, however, quick to add that the decision of the group would be made known at the appropriate time, even as he stressed that there was no time the group said it had not pushed the idea of an Igbo man being president in 2015.
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