Germany’s foreign minister ruled out his country’s participation in a military strike in Syria after an apparent deadly poison gas attack.

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has warned politicians against buying up voter’s cards from the electorate in order to rig the forthcoming governorship election in Anambra.

NATIONAL Working Committee, NWC of the People’s Democratic Party, PDP yesterday slammed its hedge hammer on the Chairman, Senate Committee Committee on Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Senator Andy Uba and suspended him from the party as a member of the PDP.

…as PDP suspends Senator Uba, Chief Chris Uba and associates *I cannot be suspended — Chris…

A FEDERAL High Court has ordered the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, to abide by results of the ward and state congresses supervised by the national secretariat of the party in the selection of its governorship candidate. The ward and state congresses eventually produced Comrade Tony Nwoye as the party’s flag bearer.

Elder statesman and leader of the Patriot, Professor Ben Nwabueze, yesterday reiterated his call on President Goodluck Jonathan not to contest the 2015 presidential election, saying he should concentrate on transforming the country to make it more united and stronger through a conference of ethnic nationalities.

Officials of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps, NSCDC, have arrested 22-year-old Mohammed Inuwa of Herwagana quarters, Gombe for attempting to rape an 80-year-old blind woman, Malama Hannutu Baba.

WHERE is the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, heading? It is doubtful if the PDP, any side of it, knows. The matters are complicated, so complicated that the intentions of its members are unknown. In analysing the confusion that PDP is throwing into the polity, it is important that we consider the size of PDP and its pervading influences.

A nine-month-old baby locked up in a house by her parents has been reported burnt to death.

Three persons were, yesterday, docked before Tinubu Magistrate’s court, for alleged kidnap, raping and posting a female student of University of Lagos, Akokas nude photographs on the internet.

The police in Bayelsa State, yesterday, said the dredging firms whose workers were abducted last Friday by gunmen in the creek of Opuama in Southern Ijaw council area of the state paid N6 million ransom to the kidnappers without alerting them.