FOLLOWING the incessant kidnapping of officials of the Reynolds Construction Company, RCC, handling the Benin-Lagos Express Road, the Federal Government has deployed soldiers with a view to protecting the officials.

A gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Akwa Ibom State, Frank Okon Daniel, yesterday, approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, praying it to restrain the party from transmitting the name of the incumbent governor of the state, Godswill Akpabio, to INEC, pending the hearing and determination of a substantive suit challenging the legality of the primaries that produced him as the PDP gubernatorial candidate in the state.

No fewer than 100 suspected political thugs, yesterday in Bauchi, surrendered their weapons and promised to turn peaceful.
The youths gathered at Mallam Goje Enclave in Bauchi Metropolis to surrender their weapons and promised to shun political violence.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State has accused the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, of disallowing members of the opposition parties to register for the on-going voters registration through intimidation and coercion.

The presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari(rtd), has blamed the problems associated with the voters’ registration exercise on system failure and leadership incompetence.

SOME eligible voters in Oyo State may be disenfranchised in the April poll as some ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, are yet to grasp the procedure that would make the exercise a success.

ANXIETY is mounting in the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP following the cancellation of the gubernatorial primaries held in Kogi state with a call for a re-run and a day after, the party has made a u-turn on its decision.

No fewer than 100 suspected political thugs, yesterday in Bauchi, surrendered their weapons and promised to turn peaceful.

THE multimillion naira Gani Fawehinmi diagnostic centre, initiated by the Ondo State government to immortalize late Human Rights activist is to be commissioner next month.

AS a way of providing lasting solution to the clamour by the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, Ebonyi State chapter, for implementation of the new salary structure for its members, a 14-man committee was on Monday inaugurated by the state government.