10 things you need to know this Saturday morning

Good morning! Here is today’s summary from Nigerian Newspapers 1. Appeal Court in Abuja on Friday ordered the Department of State Services, DSS, to produce former National Security Adviser, Col Sambo Dasuki (rtd) before a Federal High Court in Abuja. The court said the order was to enable Dasuki testify in defence of a former National Publicity Secretary of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Olisa Metuh. 2. The United Kingdom has asked the Federal Government to explain the status and whereabouts of the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. The British government said it had asked the government if the British national was alive or dead. 3. Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki has fired the permanent secretary in the State’s Ministry of Education, Dr. (Ms) Osayuware over alleged padding of the ‎budget for the conduct of primary school examination to the tune of N283 million. Governor Godwin Obaseki who handed down the punishment also ordered an investigation into the schools’ accounts in the state. 4. The Federal Government has vowed to complete work on the second Niger Bridge as well as other federal projects in the South-East zone. The Vice-President, Prof Yemi Osinbajo, who gave the assurance, explained that the FG under President Mohammadu Buhari was committed to completing every federal project in the South East especially the second Niger Bridge. 5. Governor of Ekiti State, Ayodele Fayose, has insisted he will defeat President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019. In a series of tweets on Friday, Fayose stated that he has a history of beating incumbents at the polls and stressed that he will accomplish the feat again, if the elections were free and fair in 2019. 6. Former Aviation Minister, Femi Fani-Kayode, has revealed the greatest challenge Nigeria would face in the next two years. Fani-Kayode in a couple of tweets on Friday night, stated that it was not the issue of who becomes president, but the question of whether the country will be restructured or not. 7. Abia state Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu, said that South-East Governors only banned the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), but did not declare it a terrorist organization. Ikpeazu also explained that the Governors only proscribed the activities of the group, to douse tension in the region. 8. Former Commissioner of Police, Lagos State, Abubakar Tsav, has called for the removal of Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Jumai Al-Hassan from President Muhammadu Buhari’s government. He said this in response to her open support for the presidential ambition of former Vice-President, Atiku Abubakar. 9. Ifeanyi Ejiofor, lead counsel of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) has lamented that he has not been able to reach his client, Nnamdi Kanu since the military stormed his Afara-Ukwu, Umuahia, Abia State home. The lawyer recalled that he got a call from Kanu on 14th September that army personnel were shooting sporadically around his house and since then he has neither seen him or heard from the IPOB leader. 10. The Presidency has explained why the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, under the leadership of Nnamdi Kanu was proscribed. President Muhammadu Buhari’s Personal Assistant on Social Media, Lauretta Onochie said IPOB was proscribed to avoid “them hurting themselves.”