Plateau State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Mr. Habu Zama said over two million people were registered in the state in the just concluded votes’ registration exercise, describing it as successful despite the initial hiccups.

Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, governorship candidate in Kwara State, Mr. Mohammed Dele Belgore (SAN), yesterday, urged the youths to join the drive for positive change for people-oriented and inspiring leadership which he pledged to offer if elected in April.

A group of youths, under the auspices of Progressive Vanguards in Ogun State, has raised alarm over alleged clandestine move by the leadership of Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state to remove the name of Alhaji Adegbenga Kaka, a former deputy governor to Segun Oshoba between 1999-2003, as the Ogun East Senatorial seat candidate and replace it with that of the incumbent Senator in the forth coming elections.

ABIA State PDP parallel governorship candidate for April 2011 elections, Chief Ikechi Emenike, yesterday explained that he did not have the capacity to withdraw from the race because his was a mission inspired by God.

A PAN Igbo organisation, National Renaissance Movement, NRM, has said the recent appointment of Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu, the wife of the defunct Biafra warlord, Dim Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu, as Senior Special Assistant, Diaspora Affairs; by President Goodluck Jonathan was an insult to the Igbo race.

As Lagos State doctors embark on another round of industrial action, Arewa Youth Consultative Forum, AYCF, as well as Oodua Self Determination Group, COSEG, have called for caution and understanding over the issue.

The offences preferred against them were said to be contrary to and punishable under Sections 390 (9), 427 and 516 (a) of the Criminal Code, Cap C.17, Vo. II, Laws of Lagos State, 2003.

Vice-Chancellor of Veritas University, Abia State, Professor David I. Ker, has commended the Federal Government for attacking head-long the security issues in the state.

Nigeria’s Eagles did not train at the Teslim Balogun Stadium yesterday. Their first training for the encounter against Sierra Leone in Lagos on Wednesday was scheduled for the venue of the match at 5 pm.

The Academic Staff Union of Universities, ASUU, has expressed concern over the spate of political assassinations in the country.

Just after the state Commissioner for Economic Planning and Budget, Pastor Ben Akabueze made his 2-hour presentation, Mr. Quasim Akinreti, a United Kingdom trained on-line media expert, sought answers to why some contractors executed some of the state projects halfway within a fiscal year and how many contractors have been sanctioned so far for what he allegedly described “dereliction of duties or breach of contracts”.

Dr. Dejo Raimi, a retired medical practitioner, is now a full-fledged politician. He prefers the incumbent Governor Adebayo Alao Akala to continue to steer the ship, the stance that is contrary to other Ibadan indigenes.

THE Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] has released the list of candidates for the forthcoming polls with the names of Governor Olugbenga Daniel, Speaker of the House of Representatives; Mr. Dimeji Bankole and daughter of the acclaimed winner of the June 12 1993 elections; Bashorun MKO Abiola, Mrs. Lola Abiola Edewor conspicuously missing from the Peoples Democratic Party [PDP] list.

NIGERIAN Content Development and Monitoring Board, NCDMB, and China’s major welded line pipe maker, Jiangsu Yulong Steel Pipe have agreed to implement a schedule that will lead to the setting-up of a 250, 000 tons per annum longitudinal submerged arc welded pipe mill in Nigeria by September 2012.