A World Bank team led by Ramiro Iturrioz has commended the Nigerian Agricultural Insurance Corporation (NAIC) for its efforts to sustain the specialised agricultural insurance scheme which provide insurance cover to Nigerian farmers.

THE bitter rivalry between Governor Theodore Orji of Abia State and PDP on one side and his former political mentor and ex-governor of the state, Chief Orji Kalu and his party, Progressive Peoples Alliance, PPA,on the other, came to a head Tuesday as a clash between their supporters at Ohafia left at least two persons dead.

AHEAD of Saturday general polls, Brigade Commander, Port Harcourt army barracks, Brigadier General Tukur Buratai has appealed to any one with intention to cause violence at election grounds in Rivers State to stay away from the polls because his men would not hesitate to deal decisively with anyone caught fomenting trouble that day.

IT is instructive that towards the end, the campaigns became quite intriguing. We therefore have no problem in picking our personalities of the week. They are the Comrade Governor of Edo State, Adams Oshiomhole (ACN); the Member representing Etsako Federal Constituency in the House of Representatives, Hon. Abbass Braimah (PDP); and those courageous youths of Etsako Federal Constituency who decamped from the PDP to the ACN on the roadside, without waiting for all the niceties of a stadium declaration.

CHIEF of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Azubuike Ihejirika, has expressed satisfaction with the preparation of the 2 Division, Nigeria Army, Odogbo Ibadan, on the election which kicks off on Saturday across the country.

The Comptroller of Customs in-charge of Sokoto, Kebbi and Zamfara Area Command, Alhaji Abdulkarim Hussaini, has said that the service would be proactive in its surveillance across Nigeria’s borders in its efforts to ensure hitch-free elections during the April polls.

Two days from today, Nigerians will go to the polls to elect members of the legislature at state and national levels. Apart from the usual heightening of political violence, which has been the constant feature of our elections since 1952, the atmosphere has generally been conducive towards an election that, many prognoses have opined, will determine whether Nigeria will survive to hold another election in 2015.

OPPOSITION political parties in the country, yesterday, rejected the decision of the Federal Government to deploy soldiers for the 2011 general elections.

Justice Abdul Kafarati of the Federal High Court in Abuja, yesterday, threw out an application filed before him by former Speaker of the House of Representatives, Alhaji Aminu Bello Masari, asking him to stay the execution of his February 25 judgment that quashed his gubernatorial ambition in Katsina State.

TWO days to the 2011 general elections, the Lagos State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has raised alarm over alleged plans by the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in the state to rig the elections.

SENATOR Osita Izunaso, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP Imo West, has denied news reports alleging his endorsement of Chief Hope Uzodinma, his rival for the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP senatorial ticket for Imo West.

A Boxer’s career is often likened to the course of a river still in its formative stage when it bows to the dictates of commonsense.

The German Cultural and information Centre, Goethe Institut , one of the very active European cultural organisations in Nigeria which has been homeless since December 2009 when it lost its former home located at Ozumba Mbadiwe Way, Victoria Island has finally acquired a new home in the central Lagos.

Less than 48 hours or two days to the first leg (N/A poll) of the all-important April general elections in Nigeria, it may be correct to say that over 130 Nigerian citizens have been killed outside the law and over 400 injured in pre-election related violence since July 2010. Again, July 2010

THE Delta State Government is in consultation with three airlines to regularise flight operations at the Asaba International Airport, Vanguard can authoritatively report.