THE battle for the three senatorial seats of Cross River State has changed gear with the combatants throwing all the tricks in their armoury into the electioneering campaigns. Across the zones, each of the candidates is expected to put in his best to sail through victoriously.

The Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, in Benue State, has been enmeshed in a major crisis as six of its founding members have asked a Makurdi Federal High Court to annul the emergence of all the party’s candidates in the state in the April elections, citing the negation of the Electoral Act and the party’s constitution in the process of nominating the candidates.

A coalition of civil society for PIB campaign yesterday called on Deputy Senate President, Senator Ike Ekweremadu, to resign for calling those protesting the delay in the passage of Petroleum Industry Bill, PIB, charlatans.

The Federal Government said available electricity output now stands at 4,000MW, blaming poor infrastructure for the inability of government to evacuate the total electricity generation put at 6,000MW.
Minister of Science and Technology, Prof Mohammed Abubakar, made this known yesterday at the summit on energy and sustainable economic growth organised by the Energy Commission of Nigeria, ECN.

Men’s love for God in this perilous times, truly is waxing cold. This change in attitude is a confirmation of the Biblical injunction as recorded in Matthew 24:12, resulting in individuals, worst of all, leaders doing things out of spite and self ambition irrespective of how badly the poor masses suffer from their actions . The love for wealth acquisition has become so intrusive on the rights of citizens of Nigeria to the extent that not even crumbs are left by the oppressors and persecutors of God’s people for the downtrodden.

Ahead of the April polls, the National Conscience Party, NCP, gubernatorial candidate for Lagos state, Comrade Ayodele Akele has promised to increase the minimum wage of civil servants in Lagos state public service from its present N 18, 780 to N 25, 000, if elected into office.

With the recent passage of the Freedom of Information Bill, FoI,by the House of Representatives and the recent utterance of the Special Adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan on National Assembly Matters, Senator Mohammed Abba-Aji to the effect that he (Abba-Aji) and his colleagues will advise their principal against assenting to the Bill (FoI) if it was eventually passed by the Senate, Nigerians became apprehensive on the fate of the bill.

The Network of National Human Rights Institutions, NNHRI, has called on ECOWAS and National Human Rights Institutions in the continent to take genuine steps to eliminate discrimination in education on the basis of gender. NNHRI also want Ecowas to pursue with more commitment and diligence

The Former President Nigeria, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo has proposed four strategic goals which the Nigerian university system should strive to attain in the next five years to reposition the nation’s post-graduate education.

The Lagos State Ministry of Justice recently organised a two-day retreat for its law officers. The programme, which witnessed presentation of papers by different resource persons, according to the state Attorney-General and Commissioner of Justice, Mr. Supo Sasore, SAN