Sokoto – Alhaji Ahmed Mahuta, the Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC) in Sokoto State says a total 1.8 million voters have been registered in the on going voter registration in the state.

New York, Feb. 5, 2011 (NAN) A wake ceremony for ex-Nigeria football international Uche Okafor was postponed on Friday due to inclement weather in Dallas, Texas, a family friend said.

Travellers within Nigeria air space may face fresh security and safety procedures as the nations aviation authorities take steps to check anarchists that want to commit terror attack at the airport and aviation facilities.

Nigerians in their thousands converged yesterday at Uromi, Edo State to bid farewell to the late nationalist, Chief Anthony Enahoro as he was laid to rest.School children waving the Nigerian flag, men and women lined the Uromi –Irrua road to welcome the stream of visitors who came to attend the funeral of one of Nigeria’s most remarkable statesmen.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday arrested eight suspects including three importers over illicit trafficking of drugs at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport Lagos.

A suit instituted by a Law Diploma holder, Mr Moroof Ayinde Lateef challenging the refusal of the State High Court to allow him practice law with his certificates, has been dismissed.

A Federal Court sitting in Abeokuta aborted yesterday, moves by the Governor Gbenga Daniel faction of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to stop the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, from recognizing the candidates of the former President Olusegun Obasanjo group in the recently concluded primaries of the party.

Robbers yesterday in Lagos killed four soldiers attached to OPs MESA. Details of the attack were sketchy at press time, but sources said the soldiers were on routine patrol at Afro media and environs when the hoodlums opened fire on them killing four occupants of the patrol van on the spot.

A Direct Data Capture, DDC, machine, camera and scanner, belonging to the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has been discovered by the police at the residence of a pastor in Ughelli, Delta State.

CHAIRMAN of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties, CNPP and National Chairman of the National Action Council (NAC), Dr. Olapade Agoro, has described as empty threats by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to deregister political parties that perform poorly in the 2011 polls.