The Consensus Candidate of the Northern Political Leaders Forum and former Vice President Atiku Abubakar has taken his presidential campaign to United Kingdom where he also had a secret meeting with the former Central Bank Governor, Professor Chukwuma Soludo before jetting off to Swtizerland in his bid to consolidate his campaign structures and ensure he emerges the presidential candidate of PDP in the January primaries of the party.

STUDENTS of universities owned by governments of the South East states have gone to court over the lingering industrial dispute between the state governments and members of Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU which has led to the closure of the universities in the last four months.

There has been a disputation between the Governor of the Central Bank, Mr. Sanusi Lamido and the Minister of Finance, Mr.Olusegun Aganga on the one hand, and the members of the National Assembly on the other, about the allegation that legislators scoop about twenty-five percent of the annual budget of the nation, as their remuneration. The legislators deny this.

The Nigeria Army yesterday released promotions of its 2_star Generals after a marathon meeting by the Army Council headed by President Goodluck Jonathan who was represented by Defence minister, Adetokunbo Kayode.

Vice President Namadi Sambo yesterday described as illegal the process leading to the emergence of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar as consensus candidate of the North in the forthcoming presidential primaries of the PDP.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, is facing a fresh challenge in its preparation for next year’s elections after a Federal High Court, Abuja, yesterday restrained it from awarding contract for the importation of the Direct Data Capturing (DDC) machines or any other equipment ancillary to, or associated with the process and application of the machines for the registration of voters.

Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, in his first major interview since the nullification of his election as Delta State Governor speaks on diverse issues.

Managing Director of the Word Bank and former Minister of Finance, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo- Iweala, yesterday publicly took on Minister of Works, Senator Sanusi Daggash, demanding explanation on why the Lagos/Benin highway was yet to be fixed, despite the huge capital sunk into it.

A bloody political clash was averted in Aba on Thursday when some supporters of Governor Theodore Orji of Abia state allegedly invaded the venue of a campaign rally organized by Abia South Senatorial zone for his former deputy now a governorship aspirant on the platform of Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA, Mr Chris Akomas, chanting the praise of the governor, and attempted to disrupt the rally.

The Ijaw Monitoring Group (IMG) has described JTF operation in Ayakoromo and its environ as lawless and outright terrorism against innocent Ijaw women and children.