ABOUT 25 secondary school students and a Peoples Democratic Party chieftain were arrested yesterday by the Oyo State Police Command for alleged multiple registration in the on-going voter registration.

Enugu State government declared yesterday that Governor Sullivan Chime remained the state governorship candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, for April elections, as the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, had since acknowledged receipt of his nomination form.

THE Federal Government has commenced moves to review the embargo placed on admission of new set of students for the 2010/2011 academic session in the five universities in the South Eastern states, following prolonged industrial actions in the institutions.

A NEW Army formation,14 brigade of the Nigerian Army, has been established at Ohafia, Abia State, the General Officer Commanding the 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, Major General Sarkin Yaki Bello, has said.

Nigeria’s FIFA and CAF executive committees member, Dr Amos Adamu will today know his fate as the world’s football governing body Appeals Committee decides on his appeal against the three-year ban slammed on him as punishment for his role in the alleged vote-for-cash scandal that rocked the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bids.

As registration of eligible voters for this year’s general election winds up within the next three days, controversies seem to trail payment of allowances to registration officers trained by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to oversee the exercise in Ebonyi State.

THE Niger Delta Waterways Vigilante, NDWV, yesterday, raised alarm over the clandestine demolishing of an ocean-going vessel, belonging to a notorious and very powerful Greek national, intercepted, by security agents last year, by a syndicate of bunkerers to wipe out proof of the ship’s arrest for oil bunkering.

A group, Association for Non Violence in the Niger Delta region has called on government and Nigerians to ignore any threat from Movement for the Emancipation of Niger Delta, MEND.

Sayawa communities of Bogoro and Tafawa Balewa councils in Bauchi State, yesterday, claimed that over 96 of their sons and daughters were suspected to have lost their lives in the violent clash that broke out in Tafawa Balewa last Thursday.

TWENTY-fours after the deadline for the submission of lists of candidates for the April polls, the polity and the National Headquarters of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC were awash with high wire intrigues and confusion, yesterday.