REVELATIONS, yesterday, emerged of how former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, backtracked from becoming the only candidate of the major opposition parties in the forthcoming presidential election and the offer of funds for his presidential campaign.

THE police officer who recently lost four of his six children to kerosene explosion in Oghara, Delta State, Mr. Hope Adeleke, has appealed to the federal and state governments, Police authorities as well as public spirited individuals to come to his assistance in off-setting the medical bills of his two surviving children and wife now on admission at the University of Benin Teaching Teaching Hospital, UBTH, Benin.

The Board of Trustees, BOT, of the Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF, has distanced itself from a recent communiqué purported to have been issued by the forum and rejecting the President Goodluck Jonathan as the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP) in the April general elections.

Stanbic IBTC Bank Plc and Standard Bank of South Africa Limited has jointly acted as a lead arranger for a syndicated $143.3 million facility to Golden Sugar Company Limited

Speaker of the House of Representatives, Dimeji Bankole, has described as laughable alleged plot by his colleagues to oust him over their failure to win the tickets of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the primaries.

FORMER Minister of Information and Communications and senatorial candidate of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, for Anambra Central in the April 2011 election, Professor Dora Akunyili, has said that fake drug dealers who are allegedly threatening to deny her their votes during the forthcoming election for her role as the Director-General of the National Agency for Food, Drug Administration and Control, NAFDAC, were wasting their time.

Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry, LCCI, has warned the Federal Government and other ECOWAS leaders against military action to resolve the political crisis in Cote d’ Ivoire, saying ECOWAS leaders have enough lessons to learn from the military intervention in Liberia. The chamber said the Nigerian economy at the moment had enough challenges.

WORRIED by the rising spate of insecurity caused by kidnapping, terrorism, armed robbery, among others, and to ensure that these crimes were nipped in the bud, the General Officer Commanding, GOC, 82 Division, Enugu, Major General Sarkin Yakin Bello, has ordered troops in his area of command, covering 11 states of the federation, to be alert.

PRESIDENTIAL candidate of the Social Democratic Mega Party, SDMP, Prof. Pat Utomi, yesterday, urged youths not to succumb to the intimidation of desperate politicians by resisting manipulation at the forthcoming polls.

FORMER Military President Ibrahim Babangida yesterday condemned last Friday killing of the Borno State Candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, Engr. Fannami Modu Gubio and six others, just as he said that the act which “is barbaric and frightening calls for worry by all in the country.”

A combined team of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, and Police has impounded 15 tonnes of weeds, suspected to be Indian hemp estimated at about N45 million at Abbi, in Delta State.

Kwara State Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Governorship candidate, Mohammed Dele Belgore, (SAN) has said he represents the multitude of Kwarans who desire a clean break away from decades of socio-economic and political servitude and repression.

POLITICAL differences between Governor Adebayo Alao-Akala of Oyo State and the Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin worsened weekend, as they used uncomplimentary remarks on each other.

DELTA State Police Command has called on politicians to always conduct themselves in an orderly manner by not breaching the peace, saying that it used wisdom and maturity to handle the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, primaries held in Asaba, weekend, for the election of the Delta North senatorial candidate of the party, when the exercise at a point turned riotous.

THE Senator representing Edo Central Senatorial District in the Senate, Senator Odion Ugbesia, weekend, said that the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, will teach its Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, counterpart in Edo State the politics of its life and run the party out of the state.