News Updates October 31st, 2016: Top Ten Nigerian News Updates

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 Summary ON Nigerian New Stories making waves.

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1. Five soldiers of the Operation LAFIYA DOLE get killed while carrying out clearance operations on suspected Boko Haram terrorists hideouts in Talala and Ajigin, southern part of Borno State.


2. Vigilant soldiers shot dead a suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber in Maiduguri after he was spotted trying to creep into the Bakassi Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs camp. With the fire opened on him, one of the two bombs around his body exploded.



3. Scores were killed after suicide bombers detonated bombs in separate places in Maiduguri, the Borno State capital.




4. Thousands of residents including market women, traders, artisans, schoolchildren, political party stalwarts, religious leaders among others, during the weekend marched out in major cities and towns across Ondo State to protest the controversial removal of Eyitayo Jegede as Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) candidate for the November 26 governorship election in the state.

5. The Presidency has reacted to the allegations of inducement made by two of the judges arrested recently, who had stated that President Muhammadu Buhari, through some politicians, asked them to pervert judgment. The President said he would never authorize anybody to tamper with justice.



6. A human rights group, Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, has faulted the suit filed against it by the wife of ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, Patience, describing it as grossly incompetent and urged a Federal High Court in Lagos to dismiss it.

7. A member, Board of Trustees, Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of being behind the emergence of business mogul, Jimoh Ibrahim, as the candidate of the opposition party in the forthcoming Ondo State governorship election.

8. Immediate past President Goodluck Jonathan has recalled that there was no nepotism or detention of critics under his administration.

9. The Borno State Command of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps has revealed that youths in Maiduguri were being recruited by Boko Haram to supply fuel in the Gamboru Ngala area of the state.



10. The two Justices of the Supreme Court, Sylvester Ngwuta and Inyang Okoro, who were among some judiciary officers recently arrested by the Department of State Services on corruption allegations, have voluntarily withdrawn from further participation in the proceedings of the apex court.

The senior judiciary officers would no longer sit until when they were able to clear their names.