AHEAD of the presidential election on April 9, a coalition of non-governmental organisations under the aegis of Vote Right Initiative, VRI, has resolved to mobilise four million voters to actualise the candidacy of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

As the nation prepares to kick start the April general elections on Saturday, Senate President, David Mark, has asked security operatives to properly check Nigeria’s border to stop aliens from infiltrating the country.

THE Borno State Police Command, Wednesday in Maiduguri thwarted a plot to bomb an opposition party election rally on Tuesday, while gunmen shot dead five people in separate incidents.

Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto State, has warned civil servants in the state to shun partisan politics or risk sack.

African Democratic Congress, ADC, Wednesday in Onitsha, Anambra State, announced its withdrawal from the presidential election coming up on April 9, 2011, and directed its members to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Fidelia Njeze, said the Federal Government has intensified efforts on the rehabilitation and replacement of obsolete infrastructure in the nation’s aviation sector.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, granted bail to three Chinese nationals, who were arraigned before the court for allegedly tampering with the pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

Ijaw National Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has charged the electorate in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State to vote for his son, Mr. Ebikeme Clark, who is seeking to represent the Burutu Federal Constituency on the platform of Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in the April polls.

Delta State Police Command has warned political parties against plans to import thugs to disrupt elections in the state.

The Assistant Commissioner of Police Mr. Ibrahim Mamman, made this disclosure in Asaba, yesterday, amid complaints by two leading members of Democratic People’s Party, DPP, in the state, that there were threat to their lives and possible disruption of peace in their constituencies in the April 2, National Assembly elections.