The PDP candidate, Senator Omisore yesterday accused the APC of planning to rig the election.
Speaking through his director of Media and Strategy, Prince Diran Odeyemi, Omisore said: “our attention has been drawn to a directive by the APC that all its members from all the states under the party’s control should converge on Osogbo as from tomorrow (today) for Saturday’s election

Former national boxing coach, Obisia Nwakpa has assessed the performance of Nigerian boxers to the just-concluded 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games and concluded that the country did not deserve a better result than the two bronze medals she got.

ABUJA — THE Presidency, yesterday, tongue‑lashed Governor Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso of Kano State for accusing President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration of running a government based on ethnic sentiment and religious bigotry.

Former Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Chief Chike Francis Ofodile, SAN, is feared dead.

ABUJA — First military governor of Gombe State, Group Captain Joseph Orji (rtd), has declared that it would be lack of understanding and knowledge for anyone to suggest that the 2014 national conference was a failure.

SENIOR Staff Association of Nigerian Universities, Lagos State University chapter, SSANU-LASU, yesterday suspended its two-month old, even as it gave the university management till today to pay its members their June and July salaries withheld during the strike.

Federal Government’s quest for strong indigenous participation in the nation’s oil and gas sector has received a boost as Oando Energy Resources, OER, production capacity has reached 50,000 barrels per day, bpd.
The development follows Oando’s completion of the acquisition of the Nigerian upstream oil and gas business of ConocoPhillips at the sum of $1.5 billion.

LAGOS— A 30-year-old deaf and dumb man and six others have been arrested by personnel of the Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Beecroft , Apapa, Lagos, for impersonation, robbery and theft.

Activities at Lagos High Courts, yesterday, were still skeletal due to the absence of judges and magistrates, after the Judiciary Staff Union of Nigeria, JUSUN suspended its indefinite strike.

ACTING President of Nigeria Football Federation, Chief Mike Umeh has called on the U-20 Women National Team to start their campaign in this year’s FIFA U-20 Women’s World Cup in Canada with an emphatic win over Mexico, whom they also overpowered in Japan two years ago.

PHARMACEUTICAL companies are unwilling to invest in vaccines and research to cure the deadly Ebola disease because it is only killing Africans, a leading UK doctor has claimed.

THE ruling Labour Party, LP, in Ondo State and the All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday suffered a setback as former political appointees and party executives dumped the parties.

GATWICK was struck with an Ebola scare, weekend, after a woman collapsed and died after arriving from West Africa. The passenger, in her 70s, showed no symptoms on the flight from Gambia but became unwell on arrival at the south England airport on Saturday. She had flown with Gambia Bird.

The Director,Centre for Disease Control, Abuja, Prof. Abdulsalami Nasidi, has refuted claims that the infected doctor is dead. 

Nasidi who spoke at a briefing in Lagos, Monday, said the infected patient had been quarantined and was presently receiving treatment at an undisclosed hospital Lagos.