Aggrieved members of Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Onitsha North and South federal constituency yesterday in Onitsha protested against what they described as imposition of incapacitated and medically unfit candidate on them.

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in Bauchi State has warned that any political party or politician who used religious sentiments for their campaigns would be made to pay N1 million fine or face 12 months of imprisonment.

LAGOS— Sequel to our exclusive story earlier this month about abandoned oil rigs at the outer Marina in Lagos, Vanguard learnt that the rigs may have been seized by FirstBank of Nigeria Plc for alleged debts of about N25 billion owed by Seawolf Oil Services Limited, owners of the rigs.

President of the Nigeria Football Federation (NFF), Amaju Pinnick has revealed that the much awaited contract of Super Eagles Coach, Stephen Keshi has been finalized and ready to be sent to him before the end of the week.

The Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), yesterday, persuaded the Abuja Division of the Federal High Court to join him as a defendant in the suit seeking to compel the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to make use of both the permanent and temporary voter cards for the forthcoming general elections.

The Rt. Hon. Victor Ochei, Speaker Emeritus of the Delta State House of Assembly served as the presiding officer of the House from 2011 to 2014 having been elected three times as member of the House representing Aniocha North State Constituency. The bid by Ochei for the governorship ticket of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP derailed in the midst of political intrigues that preceded his resignation as speaker and his subsequent designation as speaker emeritus by his colleagues.

Former Golden Eaglets coach, Alphonsus Dike has called for caution in the side’s semifinal clash against the Amajimbos of South Africa.

Despite the delay in completing the second phase of the ongoing N220 billion Lagos-Badagry expressway expansion, the Lagos State government last week, reaffirmed its resolve to complete the massive project.

TO further boost intra-city transportation the Lagos State Government has added 100 new air-conditioned buses to the existing fleet through the partnership of LAGBUS Asset Management Limited and a franchise operator, Metro Bus.

The Federal Government has expressed grave concerns over the sustained vandalism of gas pipelines, noting that the incidents have constrained gas supply to power plants and held generation at less than 4,500 megawatts, MW. The Minister of Power, Prof. Chinedu Nebo, who stated this while speaking at an event in Abuja, regretted that once the power generation was approaching 5,000MW, the vandals struck and brought it down to about 3,000MW

ABUJA — The oil and gas sector’s contribution to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product, GDP, dropped by 1.48 per cent in the fourth quarter of 2014 to 8.97 per cent from its 10.45 per cent contribution in the third quarter of 2014.

Dr Enitan Badru was until recently, a commissioner in Lagos State when he resigned to contest the Lagos Island 1 Constituency seat in the House of Representatives on the platform of the All Progressives Congress, (APC). In this interview, he speaks on his inspiration for the contest, his plans for the constituency and assesses the opposition to his party’s dominance of the polity by the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP

Governor Emmauel Uduaghan of Delta State will on March 4, be confered with the All Time Best Governor in Entertainment award, for his contributions to the development of the entertainment industry in Nigeria.

The Minister of State for FCT, Oloye Olajumoke Akinjide has commissioned community markets worth N3.516b in two satellite towns of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT.

Last week’s article concluded the series on “You can Invest”. Expectedly the series generated some reactions from readers in the form of questions and comments. A few of the questions and our responses are presented below for the benefit of other readers.