AHEAD of the presidential election on April 9, a coalition of non-governmental organisations under the aegis of Vote Right Initiative, VRI, has resolved to mobilise four million voters to actualise the candidacy of President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.

First City Monument Bank (FCMB) Plc joined millions of people all over the world to observe the Earth Hour for the second consecutive year.

As the nation prepares to kick start the April general elections on Saturday, Senate President, David Mark, has asked security operatives to properly check Nigeria’s border to stop aliens from infiltrating the country.

As parts of its contribution towards the development of the real sector of the economy, Skye Bank Plc has introduced a number of products and incentives designed to help Small and Medium Scale Enterprises (SMEs) grow their businesses through access to finance and effective management of their financial resources.

Chairman of the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company, Nahco, Senator Ike Nwachukwu, has said that the company will acquire more equipment that would facilitate its business transaction, adding that it had invested over $10 million to buy more equipment.

THE Borno State Police Command, Wednesday in Maiduguri thwarted a plot to bomb an opposition party election rally on Tuesday, while gunmen shot dead five people in separate incidents.

Governor Aliyu Magatakarda Wamakko of Sokoto State, has warned civil servants in the state to shun partisan politics or risk sack.

African Democratic Congress, ADC, Wednesday in Onitsha, Anambra State, announced its withdrawal from the presidential election coming up on April 9, 2011, and directed its members to vote for President Goodluck Jonathan.

The Minister of Aviation, Mrs. Fidelia Njeze, said the Federal Government has intensified efforts on the rehabilitation and replacement of obsolete infrastructure in the nation’s aviation sector.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, yesterday, granted bail to three Chinese nationals, who were arraigned before the court for allegedly tampering with the pipelines of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, NNPC.

Barely 72 hours to the April polls, 32 groups of repentant militants drawn from the various coastal communities in Bayelsa State, yesterday, surrendered 428 different guns to the police authorities.
Also submitted were 32 Improvised Explosion Devices, IED, and fetish paraphernalia.

Ijaw National Leader, Chief Edwin Clark, has charged the electorate in Burutu Local Government Area of Delta State to vote for his son, Mr. Ebikeme Clark, who is seeking to represent the Burutu Federal Constituency on the platform of Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, in the April polls.

Delta State Police Command has warned political parties against plans to import thugs to disrupt elections in the state.

The Assistant Commissioner of Police Mr. Ibrahim Mamman, made this disclosure in Asaba, yesterday, amid complaints by two leading members of Democratic People’s Party, DPP, in the state, that there were threat to their lives and possible disruption of peace in their constituencies in the April 2, National Assembly elections.

Nigeria head coach Samson Siasia has expressed concern that Chelsea midfielder John Mikel Obi has lost the creativity that catapulted him to the world stage six years ago in Holland during the Fifa Under-20 World Championships.

The multiplicity of government agencies operating at the nation’s ports has been blamed for the failure to achieve the 48-hour goods clearance target set for the ports by government.