BARRING last minute changes, the much expected outcome of the alliance talks between the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, and Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, will be known today.

Christian Association of Nigeria, CAN, Niger State chapter, has condemned the recent multiple bomb blasts that claimed several lives in Jos, Plateau State, on Christmas eve.

In a swift move to avert a spillover of Jos crisis in his state, Benue State governor, Mr. Gabriel Suswam, has placed security operatives in the state on red alert in order to forestall bloodshed and reprisal killings in the state.
Suswam counselled the people of the state on the need to shun violence and tread the path of dialogue and peace in resolving their differences.

FORMER Minister of Defence, Gen. Godwin Abbe (rtd), yesterday, justified his decision to withdraw the soldiers involved in the Joint Military Task Force in Edo State codenamed Operation Thunderstorm, during the House of Assembly re-run election in Etsako Central Local Government Area of Edo State, which took place on January 21, 2010.

THE remains of late Fuji Music maestro, Sikiru Ayinde Barrister will be flown into the country tomorrow.

THE Senator Tunde Ogbeha led Gubernatorial Appeal Panel of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, last night upheld the disqualification of five governorship aspirants who were last week disqualified from going into the party primaries by state screening committees.

CHIEF of Army Staff, Lt. General Onyeabo Ihejirika, weekend, said the Joint Task Force , JTF, on the Niger Delta will not call off its search in the creeks of Delta State for wanted former militant leader, John Togo, until he was fished out.

THE Arch-bishop of Metropolitan See of Lagos, Anthony Cardinal Okogie, has stressed the need for prison inmates to be adequately cared for in the country.

Rivers State Governor, Chibuike Amaechi, will, tomorrow, publicly declare his intention to seek re-election for a second term in office at the 2011 gubernatorial elections.

FORMER Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Tony Anenih and the Chief of Staff to the President, Chief Mike Oghiadohme, weekend, expressed the readiness of the party to recapture the Edo State governorship seat, come 2012.

GOVERNOR Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State, yesterday, shunned the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo’s stakeholders’ meeting.

AGAINST public outcry that the rule of law should be followed before any demolition of building takes place, the ruling Peoples Democratic Party under the leadership of Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala, yesterday continued the demolition of quarters which had earlier been properly bided for during Senator Rashidi Ladoja’s administration.