— A 45-year old woman, Naimot Alimi, was arraigned yesterday before an Ibadan Chief Magistrates’ Court sitting at Iyaganku for allegedly stealing 82 pigs.

Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha, the former Chief Security Officer of late Gen. Sani Abacha, said on Monday that he had no ambition to venture into politics or seek for political position in the country.

He made the remark while addressing newsmen shortly after a courtesy visit to the Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, at his palace in Kano.

“I have not decided to venture into politics now and I have not been invited into that direction.’’

He said that the ASUU congress in the university had mandated the executive committee to explore avenues of dialogue to resolve the contending issues.

The union leader, however, said that they may be forced to declare an industrial action if the dialogue with the government failed to achieve the desired result.

Shedding light on the issues at stake, Idris said that the state government had not implemented the Universities Miscellaneous Provision Act 2012 in LASU.

“This law was passed by the Federal Republic of Nigeria for effective running of universities and we were part of ASUU /FG 2009 agreement.

The Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, yesterday urged former Chief Security Officer to late Head of State, General Sani Abacha, Major Hamza Al Mustapha, to leave behind the experience of his long incarceration and forge ahead in peace.

As the search for Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State successor in 2015 continues, Senator Gbenga Ashafa, has indicated readiness for the race if endorsed by party leaders.

As the face-off between the former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo and the incumbent President, Dr. Goodluck Jonathan heightens, a chieftain of the Peoples Democratic Party in the South West, High Chief Abiola Ogundokun has challenged Chief Obasanjo to give proofs of the allegations leveled against the President.

Defence headquarters disclosed, yesterday, that the Special Force of the Nigerian Army killed 56 Boko Haram terrorists that have been making life unbearable for citizens living in the North-East of Nigeria, while seven other terrorists were killed in the Lake Chad islands.

An activist and lawyer, Dr. Akpo Mudiaga-Odje, has said the National Assembly has no power to make constitution for Nigerians.
Odje, who spoke to Vanguard on the proposed national dialogue, said: “There is nowhere in the world where National Assembly makes constitution.

An Akwa Ibom State High Court sitting in Ikot Ekpene has dismissed an application filed by Mbetobong Polycarp Effiong, a matron of Etido Hospital and Maternity Clinic, Ikot Ekpene, asking it to restrain the police from arresting her over alleged stealing of a new born baby.

GOVERNOR Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State has said that work on the proposed Bus Rapid Transit, BRT, lanes in Warri metropolis would commenced in January.
Uduaghan, at a symposium organised by Warri Rebirth Initiative in Warri, said the BRT lanes would start from Effurun Roundabout and terminate at NPA in Warri.

CONTROVERSIES ruled the polity, yesterday, over whether or not Nigeria will cease to exist as a legal entity after 12 midnight today.

In its bid to reposition the Nigerian Army for expected operational challenges in the coming year and beyond, the Nigerian Army Council has commenced issuing terminal letters to over 40 generals preparatory to their leaving the force.

Abuja—Fuel scarcity looms as the Nigeria Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers, NUPENG, and Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria, PENSASSAN, yesterday insisted on going on strike tomorrow to protest the proposed sale of the nation’s four refineries by the Federal Government next year.

Senator Uche Chukwumerije, yesterday, dismissed former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s advice to President Goodluck Jonathan not to seek a second term as one laced with traps against the president.

Chukwumerije in a commentary on the letter by Obasanjo to President Jonathan, dated December 20, 2013, and obtained by Vanguard, yesterday, said: “We, on the wrong side of Nigeria’s political divide, must thank the powers-that-be for up-dating us on the mood of the establishment and the current thinking of Nigerian system.

I have decided to write you this 18-page letter BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE. If I don’t write it now, people may start considering you as a good president; forgetting that I am the only good president Nigeria has ever had. There is no one like me. As far as Nigeria is concerned, I am the Baba of the Babas. I am the president of the presidents. Before me, Nigeria had no president. After me, there will be no other president.