IN a few months time, precisely six months, a sizeable number of current office holders, including governors, would be leaving office having served out two full terms prescribed by the Constitution.

The Chairman, Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega, has urged political parties in the country to embark on voter education as part of their contribution to ensure a successful voters’ registration.

President Goodluck Jonathan has lauded the support given his presidential bid by Ohanaeze Ndigbo, saying the group had put to shame the divisive plot of some of his rivals to divide and rule the Igbo race for their selfish goals.

A gang of armed robbers operating on motor cycles, yesterday, snatched over N50 million from the Chief Accountant of the Delta State Government House, Asaba, at gun point.

IN what appears to be a deviation from the existing Masterplan of the Federal Capital Territory, the Minister, Senator Bala Mohammed, yesterday, gave embassies and high commissions waiver to construct high tension fences as part of ways to secure the offices and residence.

President Goodluck Jonathan has disclosed that the present administration has injected over 150 million US dollars as well as taken an International Development Association IDA, credit from the World Bank to carry out the Science and Technology Post- Basic (Step-B) project all in order to boost education in the country.

PENTECOSTAL Church leaders in Edo State, under the aegis of Pentecostal Fellowship of Nigeria, PFN, yesterday, declared their support for the developmental projects of Governor Adams Oshiomhole and vowed to assist him to succeed in prayers

Central Bank governor, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi, has said economic growth would be achieved at a faster rate, if all segments of the population had access to financial services.

GUNMEN, yesterday, attacked an offshore oil rig operated by exploration firm Afren, kidnapping five crew members including foreigners and injuring two others.

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Senator Ifeanyi Ararume, a PDP governorship aspirant in Imo State, on Sunday in Owerri called on the national leadership of the party to annul the November 1 party congress in the state.

Commuters plying the East-West Road, were, yesterday, stranded for about six hours as protesting former militants barricaded the Mbiama Bridge of the road over what they described as the insensitivity of the Federal Government to their plight and alleged exclusion from the amnesty progamme.

OVER the past weeks, the media has reported the Federal Government’s justifications for establishing the National Guard. The main reason is to tackle Nigeria’s ever-growing security challenges. This is the second time a national security outfit going by this name has been mulled.

THE stage is now set for a three day warning strike by Labour over the issue of minimum wage for workers in the public service as organized Labour made up of the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, and the Trade Union Congress, TUC, yesterday, failed to reach an agreement with the committee set up by the National Council of State, to harmonize perceived grey areas between Labour and the Federal Government.

Chief Dan Nwanyanwu is the chairman of Labour Party. In this interview with Vanguard, he spoke on Nigeria’s 50 years independence celebration, the bomb explosion that rocked the FCT during the celebration, his party’s readiness for 2011 elections, the need for presidential assent to Electoral Act and the principle of one-man-one vote as solution to Nigeria’s many problems. Excerpts: