UGANDAN President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has won another six-year term to add to the 24 years he has been the country’s maximum ruler. Rioters are resisting him, but he lives above reality, boasting of new laws that will chain the opposition and deny bails to rioters. He claims he will not be forced out of office.

Ahead of the May 29, inauguration ceremony for the commencement of another tenure, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State will preside over a valedictory session today for his outgoing cabinet members at the Executive Chamber of the State House, Alausa, instead of the usual executive council meeting.

AS I said before, those elected into various political offices must understand the meaning of their mandates. When we say votes must count, we are not just saying the election should not be rigged.

A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, has restrained the National Agency for Poverty Alleviation, NAPEP, from going ahead with its plan to award contract for the fourth phase of the motorised three wheelers (tricycles) popularly known as Keke NAPEP.

Director-General of National Identity Management Commission, NIMC, Bar. Chris Onyemenam has presented harmonization policy that will provide unique identification card for Nigerians and legal residents in the country.

SIX days to the end of this administration, civil servants in Oyo State, have threatened to down tools and commence an indefinite strike from mid-day today, if the out-going Governor Adebayo Alao Akala fails to pay the N18,000 minimum wage.

Voters in the Rivers State Local Government Area election, failed to turn-up on Saturday, to vote for chairmen and councillors in many councils of the state.

CHIEF Mike Ahamba (SAN), was Maj General Muhammadu Buhari’s counsel at the 2007 presidential election petition tribunal. In this interview with Vanguard, he bared his mind on why he quit politics, the conduct of the 2011 polls, which he said were comparably free and fair and why ballot box snatchers and perpetrators of post-election violence must be prosecuted. Excerpts:

Ghana is drafting rules on local hiring and transparency in its oil sector to avoid the discontent that spawned militancy in Nigeria and uprisings across the Arab world, and also keep big oil companies sweet. Grumblings over the energy industry have already started just months after the first

The newly appointed Chief Executive Of-ficer (CEO) of the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Mr. Oscar Onyema has unveiled his agenda to make the Exchange become the gateway to African frontier markets.