Barely two weeks to the general elections, political activities in Benue State are gaining momentum with the two notable parties in the state, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and the All Progressives Congress, APC, making subterranean moves to outdo each other.

The Goodluck Jonathan administration has in the four years been in power.

So badly did the people fall for the despoiling elite antics that Ironically, the rhetoric of decapitation of Nigeria became louder as the country headed into the centenary celebration of its amalgamation in 1914. Now with less than one month to another Presidential election in an atmosphere of gross insecurity and occupation of some of our local governments in the North East by insurgents the necessity for a cautiously managed elections and its aftermath assumes the highest priority ever.

Elder Asu Beks, President of Ijaw Media Forum and Publisher of Maritime Journal, Shipping World, recently, turned 61. The decorated veteran journalist and social commentator bares his mind on issues ahead of the February 2015 elections.

EXPERTS in political engineering have advanced several reasons why citizens should exercise their franchise at elections. In the Americas and Western Europe where demo-cracy had taken firm root experts believe that as soon as a citizen attains adulthood, he/she gains certain freedoms including the all important freedom to vote at elections. According to them there are many reasons why people should participate in the electioneering process.

Explosions, heavy gunfire is rocking Maiduguri, a situation that has forced many residents on the outskirts of the city to run into town while churches were hurriedly closed.

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress,APC in the February 14 election, General Muhammadu Buhari, said in Ilorin, Kwara State capital, yesterday, that the party, after research, has decided to rejuvenate farming and mining in such a way that it would provide massive gainful employment for youths if elected into office.

In this interview, former military president, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida, clarifies his position on his statement suggesting that he is in support of the re-election bid of President Goodluck Jonathan. Babangida also speaks on the murder of Dele Giwa in 1986, the Interim National Government, ING, Sani Abacha’s coup and the loss of his long time companion and wife, Maryam.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has slammed the DSS and the Police for their loud silence on the threats of war by ex-militants if President Goodluck Jonathan should lose this month’s elections, saying the failure of the security agencies to act is an indication of their double standard and lack of fairness.

The Peoples Democratic Party Presidential Campaign Organisation (PDPPCO) is insisting on the participation of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari in a live television debate with President Goodluck Jonathan.