The ousted governor of Ekiti State, Engr. Segun Oni has said he is ready to submit himself to the police if the investigation being carried out indicts him as responsible for the supply of arms to some robbery suspects now in police net.

Dissat-isfied with the outcome of the just concluded Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, ward and local government congresses, leading member of the party and former Managing Director of Benue Property and Investment Company, Mr. John Terfa Tine, has warned that the lack of internal democracy in the party would be its albatross at the forthcoming polls.

Former MILITANTS under renegade war lord, John Togo, yesterday, appealed to the Federal Government to integrate them into the amnesty programme and pay their salaries, which were stopped since November 2010.

Controversy erupted yesterday over a seeming “loophole” in the 2010 Electoral Act allowing the Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to appoint “Prominent Nigerians” as returning officers in the gubernatorial polls.

THE committee setup for the establishment of the proposed Jigawa State University headed by Professor Munzali Jibrin has submitted its report to Governor Sule Lamido with recommendations that the state government should carry on its proposal for the establishment of the state university, saying N4bn is needed as take off grant.

Police authorities yesterday, said they have uncovered a convincing prima-facie nexus linking the embattled Senate Leader, Teslim Folarin, with the murder of transport union helmsman, Alhaji Abdul Lateef Salako, aka Eleweomo.

Education is so fundamental, critical to nation building and human existence that formulation of policies must emerge out of the realities mainly directed to training of the intellect and pursuit of knowledge.

M r. Adekunle Ogunba, is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria, SAN. In this interview, he examines the workload of the Supreme Court of Nigeria, and concludes that there is the need to decentralize the apex court to facilitate speedy dispensation of justice in the country.

AHEAD the forthcoming primaries of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Edo State, a chieftain of the party and Edo South senatorial aspirant, Mr Mathew Urhohide, yesterday, warned that it will be “hypocrisy”, if the primaries of the party is skewed in favour of particular candidates by the leaders.”

DETERMINED not to leave anything to chance and in demonstration of its readiness to conduct credible elections in the country, the Federal Government, yesterday, deployed in Delta State, the Nigerian Navy, Air force, 45 units of Mobile policemen, 20,000 regular policemen and a stand by team of the army for today’s gubernatorial re-run elections.