Two weeks to his seeking for re-election, and less than nine weeks to the end of his tenure, a Federal Court of Appeal, Tuesday, in Kaduna nullified the election of the Member the representing Zonkwa Constituency in the Kaduna State House of Assembly, Mr. Kantiok Irmiya Ishaku of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

No fewer than 850 barefooted primary school pupils in Ijebu area of Ogun have benefitted from a free sandal distribution programme by an NGO, Encouragement Initiative (EI).

Alhaji Ibrahim Shekarau, the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP presidential candidate, says his party members are not prone to violence

Amnesty International has said that Nigeria had yet to implement the UN Convention on Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women, 25 years after it came into force.

Two Nigerian languages, Yoruba and Igbo, have been listed among those into which the UK census enumeration form have been translated.

Delta State School of Marine Technology, Burutu, has kicked off with 560 students admitted into five departments for National Diploma, Pre-ND and other professional courses for two-year programmes.

NIGERIAN Urban Reproductive Health Initiative, NURHI, has disclosed that not less than 750,000 abortions are committed yearly in the country, bemoaning the lackadaisical attitude of the three tiers of government to family planning.

Contrary to expectation that full services would resume yesterday in all Lagos State-owned hospitals following the suspension of the seven-week-old strike by the Medical Guild, the few patients who turned up at the hospitals were disappointed as only skeletal services were available.

When Vanguard visited the hospitals, most of the departments and wards that had been under lock and key since the strike started were still shut. Only a few doctors were sighted attending to the few out-patients. The beehive of activities which most of the hospitals were known for is yet to return.

AS the much awaited general elections kicked off this weekend, former Head of State and Presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday, called on Nigerians to hold President Goodluck Jonathan responsible if the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, failed to conduct free and fair elections.