CHAIRMAN of the Senate Committee on Information and Media, Senator Ayogu Eze, said, yesterday, that the process of amendments of the constitution and the Electoral Act to accommodate the request of the Independent National Electoral Commission for an extension of time for the elections would be concluded within one month.

IT can be rightly claimed that the media, especially the print, is the foremost founding father of this
nation, not the least because those who fought for Nigeria’s independence were either journalists or used the instrument of the press rather than armed struggle as other decolonising entities like Zambia, Zimbabwe, Kenya, South Africa, Algeria Mozambique and Angola.

Kwara State Governor and presidential hopeful on the platform of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2011 general elections, Dr. Bukola Saraki, has maintained that all efforts to zone out the presidential slot contrary to the PDP constitutional provisions must be thwarted.

AREWA Consultative Forum, ACF, and the Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF, yesterday, took President Goodluck Jonathan to task over his claim that the zoning policy of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, does not apply to the offices of the President and the Vice President.

ABOUT 100 Anglican priests in Enugu Diocese led by the Bishop, Rt. Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, yesterday, staged a peaceful protest over the abduction of 15 pupils of a private school in Aba, Abia State and handed down a three-day ultimatum to the kidnappers to release their victims or be cursed.