In claiming insecurity as the direct reason for the shift of the elections, the National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, Prof. Attahiru Jega may have stated the obvious. However, many stakeholders are not ignorant of the internal failures of the commission, principally, the alleged failure of the commission to deliver important materials needed for the election according to schedule.

Ado Ekiti—Ekiti State Governor, Mr. Ayodele Fayose has again warned the civil servants in the state to stay away from partisan politics just as he assured them that he would not coerce them to vote for candidates of his choice in both the March and April elections.

PRESIDENT and founder of Christ Life Churches under the umbrella of “Sword of the Spirit Ministries,” Bishop Francis Wale Oke, was raised and anointed to empower believers for the end time move of God. He accepted the call into full time ministry on May 17, 1982 and started the Sword of the Spirit Ministries in 1983 by the leading of the Holy Spirit.

PEOPLE’S Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Lagos State, Mr. Olujimi Agbaje, has urged the people of the state to vote for him to enable him to address areas bothering on their social and economic welfare, which had suffered for close to 16 years under the watch of the All Progressives Congress.

THE full title of my last column (27 January 2015) is “How Col. Dasuki Confirmed Nigeria as the Never-ready Country (and Why the Elections Must Not Be Postponed).” It was published without the second part in parenthesis. But I had been expressing a vain hope.

It never ceases to amaze me how we continue to play games with our future as a country. Our politics, like a soap opera or a badly written pantomime, is filled with awe- inspiring episodes which leave one both amazed and confused as we await the next instalment.

The just concluded 2015 Africa Cup of Nations would have been a bigger commercial success if Nigeria had participated, according to the Nigeria Football Federation President, Amaju Pinnck.

Nemesis, yesterday, caught up with a 27-year-old serial rapist, Stephen Nyong, a native of Ikono Local Government Area of Akwa Ibom State, who resides at 18b, Inyang Edem Street, Mount Zion, Calabar, as he was arrested by youths of the community.

ABUJA—The ongoing 11th National Delegates Conference of the Nigeria Labour Congress was thrown into turmoil yesterday following the reopening of nomination for candidates to contest for offices after their disqualification by the Credentials Committee of the NLC saddled with the screening of candidates.

The Afenifere Renewal Group, ARG, has considered as untenable the security reason given for postponement of the February polls by Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC.

Placard-carrying secondary school teachers yesterday, stormed the Government House in Bauchi State to protest against 11 months of unpaid salaries.

AS Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka put it the other day, ‘this intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Buhari to return to power at the head of a democratic Nigeria, as by declarations of support from directions that leave one totally dumbfounded.’ Nothing best describes the upsurge of vociferous but futile calls for Nigerians to forcefully swallow hook, line and sinker the arrival of a long awaited messiah in Buhari

National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu yesterday raised the alarm that his Bourdillon, Ikoyi Lagos residence has been put under surveillance by battle-ready and helmet-wearing soldiers for three days but declared “I will not be intimidated by this show of strength, intimidation and possible harassment.”

The United Nations, UN, has pledged to make its peace keeping platform available to Nigeria as it fights Boko Haram in the north eastern part of the country.

Lagos— A bureau de change operator, Abdulrahman Yusuf, 65, was, yesterday, docked before a Lagos Magistrate’s Court sitting at Tinubu, for allegedly stealing $3,700 (N694,860).