POLICEMEN from Zone 9 Headquarters, Umuahia, Abia State, in the early hours of yesterday, were said to have raided the residence of Abia State Commissioner for Information and Strategy, Chief Anthony Agbazuere, claiming that they were in search of missing INEC Direct Data Capture, DDC, machines.

DELTA State Government, yesterday, raised an eight man committee to visit Ayakoromo community to assess the damage done to it and work out modalities for immediate relief, while directing the management of the Delta State Oil Producing Development Commission, DESOPADEC, to release the sum of N50 million for the rehabilitation of the community.

FORMER Resident Electoral Commissioner, REC, in the defunct Bendel State, Olorogun Atuyota Ejughemre, yesterday, said that the on going voters’ registration exercise in the country was fraught with a lot of challenges.

Immediate past Health Commissioner in Imo State, Dr. Vin Udokwu, has been released by his abductors who kept him in captivity for about five months.

DELTA State Governor, Dr Emmanuel Uduaghan, and two governorship aspirants in the state, Prof. Saliba Mukoro and Mr. Collins Eselemo of the National Conscience Party, NCP, weekend, tasked the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to ensure that all eligible voters in the state were registered despite the hitches in registration exercise.

Elders, aspirants and party stalwarts, who took part in the primary elections for the Senate, House of Representatives and the state Assembly have written series of petitions to the leadership of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Lagos State.

FOLLOWING the incessant kidnapping of officials of the Reynolds Construction Company, RCC, handling the Benin-Lagos Express Road, the Federal Government has deployed soldiers with a view to protecting the officials.

A gubernatorial aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Akwa Ibom State, Frank Okon Daniel, yesterday, approached a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, praying it to restrain the party from transmitting the name of the incumbent governor of the state, Godswill Akpabio, to INEC, pending the hearing and determination of a substantive suit challenging the legality of the primaries that produced him as the PDP gubernatorial candidate in the state.

LEADERS that realise that greatness is not property accumulated within the shortest time but the services rendered for the good of others. Since, the British colonialists lowered the Union Jack and freed a land they have ruled for less than a century, the country has never enjoyed credible leadership with good governance.

No fewer than 100 suspected political thugs, yesterday in Bauchi, surrendered their weapons and promised to turn peaceful.
The youths gathered at Mallam Goje Enclave in Bauchi Metropolis to surrender their weapons and promised to shun political violence.

DECEMBER 2010 was Dakar, the capital city of Senegal’s, week of festival. From 10th of December to 31st the country hosted the 3rd World Black Festival of Arts and Culture otherwise known as FESTAC.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Osun State has accused the ruling Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, of disallowing members of the opposition parties to register for the on-going voters registration through intimidation and coercion.

The presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari(rtd), has blamed the problems associated with the voters’ registration exercise on system failure and leadership incompetence.

There are strong indications that the US embassy would not honour all the visa applications for players of the Super Eagles selected for the forthcoming international friendly against Guatemala in Miami and the Green Bowl soccer Tournament in the United States of America next month.

SOME eligible voters in Oyo State may be disenfranchised in the April poll as some ad-hoc staff of the Independent National Electoral Commission,INEC, are yet to grasp the procedure that would make the exercise a success.