GOVERNORSHIP candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos, Mr Jimi Agbaje has pledged that his administration would not tamper with the allocation of local governments if elected.

LAGOS — The All Progressives Congress, APC, yesterday alleged a plot by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the Presidency to scuttle the February 14 presidential elections through a rash of frivolous court actions.

The Comptroller of Immigration, Lagos State Command, Mrs Justina Ahmedu yesterday warned ECOWAS nationals living in the state not to get themselves involved in the forth coming election, threatening to repatriate any erring alien.

Domany Dore, Guinea Sports Minister, on Thursday night in Dakar, after the national team reached Afcon’s last eight by the luck of the draw, dedicated their progress to the victims of Ebola.

Three French tourists in their early twenties have been arrested by Cambodian authorities for taking nude photos of each other inside the country’s famed Angkor temple complex, officials said Friday.

Nigeria’s foremost producer, Don Jazzy and rap king, Olamide were spotted in this photograph giving their support to the All Progressives Congress, presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari during APC’s Lagos rally, which is ongoing at Teslim Balogun Stadium in Surulere, Lagos.

Yusuf Alli, a former Commonwealth long jump champion, on Friday said that Nigeria stood a chance of excelling at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games if the needful steps were taken.

A bomb tore through a busy Shiite mosque in southern Pakistan on Friday killing at least 40 people, officials said, in the deadliest sectarian attack to hit the country in nearly two years.

OWERRI—The former Imo State chairman of defunct All Nigeria People’s Party, ANPP, Chief Vitalis Ajumbe, is presently recuperating at Salvation Hospital, MCC/Uratta Road, Owerri, following the battering he allegedly received from a former governor of the state (names withheld).

The African Union (AU) has endorsed a plan for a regional task force of 7,500 Army to fight the Islamist Boko Haram militants in Nigeria.

As the hot season begins, a medical practitioner, Dr Emenike Okezie, has advised Nigerians to seek urgent medical help if they observe symptoms of dehydration.

Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgaria’s first democratically-elected president and a humble hero in the toppling of communism, died on Friday aged 79, his family told AFP.

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe took over the post of African Union chairman on Friday, replacing Mauritania’s President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz.

Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgaria’s first democratically-elected president and a humble hero in the toppling of communism, died on Friday aged 79, his family told AFP.

Vice-President Namadi Sambo on Thursday advised the APC presidential candidate, retired Maj.-Gen.Muhammadu Buhari, against committing suicide by planning to personally lead the war against Boko Haram terrorists, if elected president.