CHAIRPERSON of the Rivers State chapter of Pharmaceutical Society of Nigeria, PSN, Mrs Elizabeth Odili, who was kidnapped from her office on Okporo Road in Port Harcourt, April 21, 2011 by unknown gunmen is yet to be released.

PRESIDENT and Founder, Living Faith Church Worldwide, Bishop David Oyedepo, Thursday in Ota, Ogun State, said the Post Presidential election violence in parts of Northern Nigeria was uncalled for.

The South-East, South-South Professionals, SESSP, a development and advocacy group, has bemoaned the loss of innocent lives in the post-election violence in some parts of north while extolling President Goodluck Jonathan and Professor Attahiru Jega, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Chairman, “for restoring the confidence of Nigerians in the democratic process by ensuring the conduct of the 2011 general elections was free and fair.”

The Igbo nation has been urged to return to the core Igbo virtues of hard work, truthfulness and resilience that made them triumphed in the days of old.

Two Non-Commissioned policemen, NCOs, were arrested during Tuesday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections along Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway, for allegedly being in possession of fake currencies.

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday took a critical look at the 2011 polls, the attendant mayhem and controversies and issued a series of point blank verdicts: President Goodluck Jonathan won the presidential polls; the outbursts of violence in some northern states after the April 16 elections were pre-planned and targeted at Youth Corps members and the 2011 polls were better than other elections.

THOUSANDS of Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, supporters staged a peaceful protest at Asaba, the capital of Delta State, Thursday, soon after Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan was declared winner of Tuesday’s governorship election.

The Rivers State governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to cancel the results of Tuesday’s gubernatorial and state House of Assembly elections.

PROMINENT Niger Delta activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Hafiz Ringim, to prevail on the Delta State Police Command to investigate the alleged pre-election violence perpetrated in her Warri residence by a prominent Warri politician (names withheld) a day before the Governorship/Houses of Assembly elections.