Two Non-Commissioned policemen, NCOs, were arrested during Tuesday’s governorship and House of Assembly elections along Lagos/Abeokuta Expressway, for allegedly being in possession of fake currencies.

NOBEL Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, yesterday took a critical look at the 2011 polls, the attendant mayhem and controversies and issued a series of point blank verdicts: President Goodluck Jonathan won the presidential polls; the outbursts of violence in some northern states after the April 16 elections were pre-planned and targeted at Youth Corps members and the 2011 polls were better than other elections.

THOUSANDS of Democratic Peoples Party, DPP, supporters staged a peaceful protest at Asaba, the capital of Delta State, Thursday, soon after Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan was declared winner of Tuesday’s governorship election.

The Rivers State governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria, ACN, Dr. Abiye Sekibo, has called on the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to cancel the results of Tuesday’s gubernatorial and state House of Assembly elections.

PROMINENT Niger Delta activist, Chief Rita Lori-Ogbebor, has called on the Inspector-General of Police, Alhaji Hafiz Ringim, to prevail on the Delta State Police Command to investigate the alleged pre-election violence perpetrated in her Warri residence by a prominent Warri politician (names withheld) a day before the Governorship/Houses of Assembly elections.

It was tears and eulogies when the body of late Super Eagles player, Olubayo Adefemi lied in state at the Indoor Sports hall of the national stadium, Lagos Thursday.

Qatari-born Mohammed Bin Hamman is unwavering in his bid to unseat FIFA long serving president, Joseph Sepp Blatter.

April 23 will forever remain evergreen in the mind of actress and UN Habitat Youth Envoy, Ini Edo.
It was the day she carried out her first assignment as the Habitat Youth Envoy for United Nation. On that day her life literarily changed.

Mofe Duncan wouldn’t have struck any strong cord to make a sound. At least not a sound loud enough to cause any stir but when he is implicated in a romantic relationship with an established Nollywood face such as Stella Damasus, then he could make a sound that would be heard at home and abroad.

Results, from many polling units in the Southern Local Governments Areas (LGAs) of Kaduna State, and in Some LGAs of Central and Northern Senatorial Zone, indicate an early lead for Governor Patrick Yakowa, the Gubernatorial candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Globaltouch (W.A.) Limited has announced the availability of a new satellite modem designed to ensure optimal satellite communication services in Nigeria.

Black Queens of Ghana are in town aiming to pull a fast one on their Nigerian counterparts in All African Games first leg qualifiers billed for the National Stadium Abuja on Sunday.

A serving member of Ekii State House of Assembly, Bisi Kolawole was Thursday arraigned in the Magistrate Court, Ado Ekiti for alleged possession of offensive weapons and act to distrupt state and national assembly elections.

Scores of youths believed to be loyalists of All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, have laid siege to Owerri, the Imo State capital and virtually halted traffic in some of the major roads in the municipality.

Staff and students of the Ladoke Akintola University Teaching Hospital, Osogbo,Thursday, held a special thanksgiving service for the failure of Oyo state governor, Otunba Alao Akala to win his re-election into the Agodi government house, Ibadan.