THE Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday annulled the Ogun State House of Assembly primaries to elect candidates for 2011 election conducted earlier in the day and ordered a fresh one same day.

Aftermath of Thursday’s murder of the former Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Oyo State, Alhaji Lateef Salako (aka ‘Eleweomo’), during the state’s PDP local government congresses, the Police High Command yesterday in Abuja ordered the immediate arrest and detention of Senator Teslim Folarin, Senate Majority Leader, in connection with the assassination.

The Committee of ECOWAS Chiefs of Defence Staff may have been put on standby for a possible military intervention in Cote D’ Ivoire, as a last resort, if the President Laurent Gbagbo refuses to hand over power to Alhassan Quattara who was the victor in the last Ivorian elections.

Long after he would have left office as governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi will have a lot of explanations to make to Nigerians and non-Nigerians alike on some of his actions and statements in office, especially in the outgone year.

Today is the beginning of a very significant year in Nigeria . This year, elections would hold in Nigeria at various levels in government but certain things must be done for free and fair elections to be achieved.