Kano – Alhaji Mohammed Abacha, the governorship candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in Kano State,says his nomination as the party’s flagbearer in the April elections is “an act of God”.

Ibadan – President Goodluck Jonathan arrived Ibadan at 11.12 a.m. on Tuesday in continuation of his nationwide campaign.

Lokoja – A Kogi government employee, Mr Elijah Nicolas, has sued the state’s Head of Service, Alhaji Isah Ichaba and two others, over non-payment of his salary and allowances.

Lagos – Former national long jump champion Yusuf Ali has described the proposed 803-man contingent to the All Africa Games in Mozambique as “too large to manage”.

Abuja – Chief Harry Akande, the former ANPP presidential aspirant, said on Monday that he had defected to the PDP to support President Goodluck Jonathan in nation building.

Resident Electoral Commissioner in Niger State, Dr. Emmanuel Onucheyo, has revealed that Alhaji Muhammadu Abubakar Bello Masaba, the octogenarian with about 5,000 familiy members had officially written to Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, earlier before the commencement of the registration exercise of the need to create a new voting unit for him.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, yesterday, kicked off his presidential campaign on both a note of good tidings and one of warning: He declared that better days are ahead for Nigerians just as he warned enemies of progress and violators of the law that his administration would pursue law breakers to the ends of the Earth.

Sergeant Maxwell Udo, a policeman in Port Harcourt, has lost his three children and wife in an inferno from a kerosene explosion that engulfed his Bernard Carr street residence in Port Harcourt on Saturday night.

Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday, took a cursory look at the state of education in the country and called on the Government to declare a state of emergency in the sector immediately to arrest the situation.

GOVERNOR Chibuike Amaechi of Rivers State is optimistic that President Goodluck Jonathan’s radical approach to tackle the issue of power was capable of achieving at least 20,000Mw in the next four years.

Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, yesterday, defended its operations at the multi-billion naira E.A oil field, saying it had not violated the Global Memorandum of Understanding, GMoU, entered into with its host communities in Bayelsa State.

A corps member serving at the Directorate of Chieftaincy Affairs, Deputy Governor’s Office, Asaba, Mr Stephen Jideani, has given scholarship to 50 students drawn from three communities in Delta State.

Minister of Finance, Olusegun Aganga, yesterday said the Federal Government had approved the introduction of National Tax Policy, NTP.

The Muslim fundamentalist group, Boko Haram, has given conditions to enable its members stop slaughtering innocent Nigerians in some parts of the North.

A Lagos-based lawyer, Mr Femi Falana, yesterday, asked a Federal High Court in Abuja to make an order of perpetual injunction, restraining the National Judicial Commission, NJC, from going ahead with its plans to elevate the President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Isa Ayo Salami, to the Supreme Court, contending that such action would amount to a gross violation of section 14(3) of the 1999 constitution.