The Big 5: President Buhari returns; Dino Melaye says INEC cannot continue with his recall; and other top stories

Good morning.

Here are the top 5 stories you should be monitoring today:

President Muhammadu Buhari returns

After his 9-day trip to New York for the United Nations General Assembly, followed by a quick stop in London on Thursday for undisclosed reasons, the President returned to Nigeria yesterday evening.

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As his first move since returning to the country, President Buhari has ordered the evacuation of Nigerian students from the Dominican Republic after the devastating Hurricane Maria which, according to Buhari’s spokesperson, Garba Shehu, left many with “nothing but the clothes on them.”

Shehu said, “the President was deeply touched” and has ordered that the students, many of who recently travelled to the Carribean to study Medicine, be moved to Brazil where they do not need visas for onward journey to Nigeria.

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The tension between the federal government and separatist group Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) continues with the federal government publishing its declaration of IPOB as a “terrorist group.”

This move by the federal government is aimed at legally deterring banks, Nigerian embassies abroad and foreign missions operating in Nigeria from further relating with IPOB.

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Kogi Senator Dino Melaye is confident the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) cannot continue with his recall process because, according to him, the commission has not followed due process.

On Monday, he told reporters that the window the constitution provides for the service of recall petition had elapsed, adding that accepting any petition from INEC would be unconstitutional.

“I have also instructed my lawyer to challenge the jurisdiction of the trial court to entertain an ex parte application for the service on me,” he said.

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Trump’s tweets are “a declaration of war.”

That’s what North Korea says the United States President Donald Trump’s threats, mostly on Twitter, have amounted to, adding that North Korea now has the right to shoot down U.S. warplanes.

However, the White House responded, “we have not declared war,” adding that “the suggestion of that is absurd.”

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