7 Things You Need to Know this Monday Morning

Abubakar Audu Died Of Stroke

According to Premium Times, Abubakar Audu, may not have died as a result of the news of the declaration of Saturday’s election as inconclusive. The newspaper reported that Mr. Audu’s health problem started on Saturday evening. The  candidate of the All Progressives Congress for Saturday’s governorship election was reported to have suffered a stroke on Saturday morning.

Constitutional Crisis As Audu Dies

The death of the Kogi State governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Abubakar Audu, this weekend, has raised some constitutional questions, as the constitution does not adequately capture a scenario like this where a candidate dies during election.

Nigeria now third most terrorized country in the world

Another explosion by a female suicide bomber in Maiduguri killed eight persons. Nigeria has been ranked third of the 162 countries of the world that have been worst hit by terrorist attacks, according to the 2015 Global Terrorism Index.(Premium times).

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Agbara Robbery Kingpin Disclosed  How Drunken Gang Member Shot Dead 9 DSS Officials At Arepo

The suspect, identified as Kelly Fotor, an Ijaw native of Arugbo, Ondo State, disclosed that his gang never intended to kill nine officials of the Department of State Service, DSS, who went missing last September. According to Vanguard Newspaper Fotor was arrested at a wedding ceremony  last Saturday by operatives of the Inspector General of Police Special Intelligence Response Team, SIRT in Sapele, Delta State.

Igbo leaders to meet Buhari on marginalization

Following their meeting yesterday, Igbo leaders in recognition of the security implications of the agitations by members of the Movement for the Actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra, MASSOB, and the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, have resolved to set up a delegation of Igbo elders to meet President Muhammadu Buhari to discuss the issue of marginalization of the Igbo nation.

The Nigeria Labour Congress has Warned The State Governors Not To Contemplate Downward Review

NLC has responded, yesterday, to the claims of the states governors that they can no longer pay the #18,000 minimum wages. The Congress insisted that the state governors can pay well over the current minimum wage if they choose to. The NLC in a statement released by its factional President, Mr. Ayuba Wabba, said: “We wish to make it abundantly clear that this attempt to reverse the national minimum wage is a declaration of war against the working people of this country, and we would have no alternative than to mobilize to respond to this act of aggression by the political class on our welfare".