Some members of the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, in Anambra North senatorial zone have protested against alleged rigging and manipulation of the ward delegate primaries by the state leader of the party, Chief Mike Kwentor.

President of the Senate, Senator David Mark, has charged the governor of Osun State, Mr. Rauf Aregbesola, to stop behaving like an Area Boy and provide purposeful leadership for his people.

Preparations for 2011 general elections started yesterday on a scary note in Ogun State as a presidential campaign bus of President Goodluck Jonathan allocated for the state was allegedly seized with some arms and ammunition.

VIOLENCE continued in B Dere and K Dere communities in Gokana Local Government Area of Rivers State after an appeal from the state government to all warring parties to cease hostilities. Community sources told the Vanguard, that about six persons were feared dead and several houses torched when youths from one of the communities mobilised and attacked the other on a retaliatory mission, Monday night.

The Presbyterian Church of Nigeria has suspended indefinitely the deputy governor of Ebonyi State, Prof. Chigozie Ogbu, for alleged acts of insubordination and lawlessness capable of destabilizing the church and causing a breach of public peace.

THE Sultan of Sokoto and President General of the Nigerian Supreme Council for Islamic Affairs, NSCIA, Alhaji Muhammadu Sa’ad Abubakar, and President of Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, have agreed that the persistent crises in Jos, the Plateau State capital, are political, with a heavy dose of religious colouration.

SECTOR Commander of the Federal Road Safety Commission, Mr. Luka Ikpi, who was oblivious of the accident which roasted 22 passengers at Emuhu, near Umunede on Monday when contacted, yesterday, claimed that only one passenger died.

OVER 2,000 men of the Nigerian Police Force have petitioned the Presidency and the National Assembly over what they described as alleged discrimination in the promotion of officers of the force who have acquired additional educational qualifications while in service to the rank of Assistant Superintendent of Police, ASP.

FORMER Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, and Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, presidential aspirant, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, yesterday, called for the criminal prosecution of former Attorney General of the Federation, Mr. Michael Aondoakaa for his alleged manipulation of state institutions for political ends.

Founder of the Northern Union, NU, and Second Republic Senate leader, Dr Abubakar Olusola Saraki has said the union has nothing against the presidential ambition of President Goodluck Jonathan whom he described as a very humble personality he had ever met.