The Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service, Abdullahi Dikko has urged the Federal Government to lift the ban on the remaining items on the prohibition list in order to enhance revenue flow as well as save the service the agony of chasing smugglers across the vast borders of the country.

THE Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has dismissed claims by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state that it had perfected plans to rig tomorrow’s governorship and state House of Assembly elections.

ATTEMPT by the Oyo State Government to appeal the judgment by the State High Court to effect the immediate payment of gratuities of 11 retired judges has suffered a temporary delay as the government could not get the judge who gave the order to apply for stay of execution.

VICE President Namadi Sambo yesterday extends his heartfelt condolence to the families of those who lost their lives in the aftermath of the election violence that engulfed parts of the North.

THE ambition of the Ogun State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Chief Adetunji Olurin, yesterday got a boost with his endorsement by 16 political parties under the aegis of the Ogun State chapter of the Coalition of Registered Political Parties, CORPP.

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, has demanded immediate and unconditional removal or redeployment of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, state Resident Electoral Commissioner, Professor Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, and the new returning officer for Anambra Central senatorial district, Professor Charles Esimone, arguing that their impartiality was highly questionable.

GOVERNOR Sullivan Chime of Enugu State said weekend that he would not contest any other political office on the expiration of his second tenure in 2015.

The leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Imo State has described the allegation by Action Congress of Nigeria that it wanted to rig the forthcoming gubernatorial election as baseless, diversionary, unchristian and most uncharitable.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State has pledged to safeguard what he described as the “enormous legacy” in the state public transportation, promising to drive it to newer frontier.