As political parties kicked off campaigns for next month’s general elections in the country, President Goodluck Jonathan talked tough yesterday, saying his administration will not tolerate the kind of orgy of violence that trailed the 2011 elections in the forth-coming elections.
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Current National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Adamu Muazu and his predecessor, Bamanga Tukur, last night pleaded with Nigerians to prove to the world that Nigeria can conduct a peaceful election.

ABUJA—MEMBERS of the National Assembly, yesterday, picked holes in President Muhammadu Buhari’s comments that members of the House of Representatives collected loans to purchase exotic cars and that he would not allow the National Assembly to go ahead with its purchase of cars worth N50 billion naira as being proposed.

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THE Olu of Warri, His Majesty, Ogiame Ikenwoli, has called on the people of Warri and all Nigerians to rededicate their lives to the service of God and mankind.

The 7 Division, Nigerian Army, Maiduguri, yesterday, announced a two-day restriction of vehicular movements in Maiduguri and environs during the New Year and Eid-El-Maulud celebrations.

CHAIRMAN, Nigerian Human Rights Commission, NHRC, Professor Chidi Odinkalu has said the corporate existence of Nigeria depends on the choice make by Nigerians, especially on the general election.

ADO EKITI—The Speaker of Ekiti State House of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, has reacted to the purported passage of the state budget by the suspended seven members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the House of Assembly, dismissing it as illegal and exercise in futility.

IN 2006, the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) Governor, Dr Charles Soludo, gave a lecture in Kaduna in which he disclosed that poverty was “a Northern phenomenon”. He also said that Jigawa State was the poorest state in the North, and by extension the poorest in Nigeria.

IT was an uncommon vision by its leadership that propelled the once laidback state into a physical turnaround that has made its capital city the toast of many Nigerians. Uyo, the capital city of Akwa Ibom State, today, boasts of not just some of the best designed roads in the country, but also, a landscape that was transformed within the shortest possible time.