THE Presidency yesterday hailed members and leadership of Northern Socio- Cultural Organisation, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF for taking a neutral position on the Presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan and that of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, rtd ahead of February, 2015 general elections.

The hopes of 167 blind Nigerians were revived at the weekend by MTN Foundation with award of scholarship to pursue their career of choice at various institutions of higher learning in Nigeria.

FEDERAL Government, yesterday, disclosed that it was working on a plan to ensure 50 percent reduction in flight ticket for all Nigerian students, who desire to travel by air.

GOVERNORS Sule Lamido of Jigawa; Emmanuel Uduaghan; Sullivan Chime of Delta; Gabriel Suswam of Benue and Ibrahim Dankwambo of Gombe were yesterday absent at the meeting of governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Mexican vigilante groups fighting drug cartels turned on each other Tuesday in a shoot out that left at least 11 dead, officials said.

OUR country is in more danger each day. Every move to pull her from the brink is set for ruination by those who think that the country is all about them. They have narrowed issues to a few politicians, instead of the larger interests of Nigerians, without which the country would remain mired in its many challenges.

A human parts merchant, identified as Olorunto Dipe, aged 35, currently in the custody of Special Anti-Robbery Squad, SARS, Lagos State Police Command, has explained how he became a dealer in human parts.

LEADERS of the All Progressives Congress, APC, were last night locked in a meeting in a race against time to present a running mate to the presidential candidate of the party, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari.

National chairman of the party, Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, was nevertheless, confident when he addressed reporters, yesterday, that Buhari would present his running mate ahead of tomorrow’s deadline.

It was an emphatic “Yes” that the Nigerian President, Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, received in the early hours of Thursday, December 11, 2014, from more than the required two-thirds of the delegates of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), who had gathered at the Eagle Square Abuja, to ratify his candidature as PDP’s flag bearer in the February 14, 2015 presidential elections.

A human rights lawyer and activist, Olatunji Abayomi, has demanded a retraction of a report against the National Leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Bola Tinubu by an online journal, Sahara Reporters titled: “Threat of perjury trial: How Jonathan Blackmailed Bola Tinubu before 2011 Presidential election”. In his letter, Abayomi argued that the report is not only false, but defamatory.