Over 300 protesters, yesterday, stormed the Abuja division of the Federal High Court, asking Justice Abdul Kafarati to disqualify himself from the current legal matter between the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Peoples Party of Nigeria, PPN, in Ogun State.

THE United States government warned yesterday that if cases of electoral violence across the country were not checked and addressed, next month’s elections may be marred by violence, stressing that it had no support for any particular candidate and had no plans of doing so.

Leader of the Commonwealth Observer Group for the forthcoming elections in Nigeria, former Botswanan President, Mr Festus Mogae, has expressed worries about the rising violence in the country in the run up to the polls, saying it posed great danger to the conduct of a credible election.

President Good-luck Jonathan, yesterday, commenced strategic moves to get the backing of organised labour for his presidential bid as the race for the nation’s number one job became more intense less than 12 days to the Presidential election.

A Federal High Court sitting in Osogbo, has restrained the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from using Amb Rufus Oluwatoyin Akeju as the Osun State Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the coming elections for Osun State and directed INEC to immediately appoint another REC for the state.

The Federal Government would require N40 billion per annum to meet the challenge of training civil servants in the country, just as aviation professionals said lack of adequate manpower and succession plan in the Nigerian aviation industry was killing its growth.