The ruling on application for bail filed by the detained Senate Leader, Senator Teslim Folarin, over alleged felony and killing of a factional Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, Alhaji Lateef Salako, a.k.a Eleweomo has been adjourned to Monday.

The Jonathan Project has tasked delegates to the National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to look beyond today’s vote towards a progressive movement that would provide support for the president’s vision of lifting the country from economic and social malaise.

FIVE persons are reportedly being interrogated at the state police headquarters in Asaba, over their alleged involvement in printing of fake voter’s cards.

POLITICAL tension heightened in Edo State, yesterday, as aspirants of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, scrambled for votes from party members in the party’s National Assembly and state Assembly primaries. Late arrival of materials characterised the exercise in the three senatorial districts of the state.

Against the calls of the Education Rights Campaign (ERC), Staff Unions like the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities (ASUU) as well as the numerous protests, demonstrations and agitations by stakeholders in the education sector for the government to increase funding to education up to UNESCO recommended standard of 26% as a step towards the provision of a free and functional education at all levels, President Jonathan and the Federal Executive Council (FEC) have prepared a budget that totally relegates education to the background while allocating a larger unmerited chunk to the Presidency and the National Assembly.

Charles Okah, Obi Nwabueze, Edmund Ebiware, and Tiemkemfa Francis Osvwo, a.k.a General Gbokos, were yesterday, re-arraigned before a Federal High Court sitting in Abuja in two separate amended charges over acts of terrorism and other treasonable offences they allegedly committed against the Federal Republic of Nigeria at different times.

Super Falcons assistant coach Ann Agumanu_Chiejine is optimistic that in no distance future Nigerian women players will climb the podium to be crowned world footballer of the year.

NO fewer than 26 political parties in Lagos State have aligned with All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, to contest against Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, and Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, at the April polls.

The Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) assumed that all banks’ customers watch television or listen to radio, and those who don’t, read newspapers. So it believed that with advertisement campaign in the television, radio and newspapers, one month would be enough to get all of them to go to their banks and update their account information.

The issue of zoning political offices within the respective political parties has generated so much furore in the polity, that a constitutional x-ray into it has become imperative if not abundantly necessary.

Federal Government, Wednesday, disclosed that the draft bill to legalise the N18.000 new minimum wage with the title “Bill for act to amend the National Minimum Wage Act cap N61LFM 2004″ to provide for the new minimum wage, was already with the National Assembly.

AS part of efforts to ensure, not just free, fair and credible, but peaceful elections later this year, the General Overseer of the Redeemed Christian Church of God, RCCG, Pastor Enoch Adejare Adeboye, has perfected plans to host a special prayer summit for all stakeholders in the political sector of the country.

INTRIGUES are never in short supply in the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP. On the eve of its presidential primaries, an Enugu High Court presided over by Justice Onuorah, yesterday, granted an interim injunction restraining PDP’s National Chairman, Dr. Okwesilieze Nwodo, from parading himself as a member and as an officer of the party.

In Nigeria today, it is violent crimes everywhere, ranging from the October 1st 2010 bomb blasts in Abuja to the Tuesday, January 11, 2011 early morning massacre of 13 innocent members of Christian families in Wareng Village, near Jos, Plateau State .

Senator Olorunimbe Mamora (ACN, Lagos East), Deputy Minority Leader in the Senate, had on Monday at a press briefing held at his constituency office in Ogudu, Kosofe Local Council of Lagos State announced his withdrawal from the senatorial race following consultations with the party hierarchy. In this interview, Mamora spoke on his decision to quit the Senate and other sundry issues.