ABUJA — As preparations for the Presidential polls slated for March 28 intensify, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, lawmakers in the House of Representatives have put forward a number of demands for President Goodluck Jonathan to meet as a condition for supporting him to win the March 28 election.

ABUJA —With barely 10 days to the end of the extension granted by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) for registered voters to pick their Permanent Voters Cards (PVCs), as much as 15 million PVCs are still lying at the various collection centres across the country.

DR Austin Nweze, a social commentator and governorship candidate on the platform of the Social Democratic Party, SDP, in Ebonyi State, in this interview explains why he wants to govern the state.

A top government official in Edo State has been making moves to manipulate the electoral process of the Edo State Football Association elections fixed for today in Benin City.

We are not sure that Mr. President has been properly informed of the reasons why the cradle of Nigerians artistic creativity needs to be sold to the Arab Emirate to be converted to a replica of the Dubai Mall and to build a Five Star Hotel in the name of Hospitality and nation building for Tourism.

Lending rates in the interbank money market rose sharply to 48 percent yesterday following intense scarcity of funds.

Dream Team VI coach, Samson Siasia has said he still has a lot of work to do on his defense if they are to get better as a team.

MALLAM Mohammed Muhammadu, a suya meat seller in Gombi town, is excited being back to his business after his displacement and forced sojourn as a result of attack by insurgents on the town. His experience is same as that of many other returnees who were similarly displaced and also suffered untold hardship following the unlawful invasion of their towns and communities by terrorists in North Eastern Nigeria.

Seven stowaways, including two Ghanaians, two Liberians and three Nigerians aboard an international maritime vessel, MT Electra Bari, which was heading for Spain, have been arrested by naval personnel off Fairway buoy, Lagos.

ABEOKUTA—Ogun State command of Nigeria Immigration Service, NIS, has begun moves to prevent illegal immigrants from participating in the coming election, with the arrest of 12 illegal immigrants.

Yenagoa—The police in Bayelsa State have announced the arrest of a corporal involved in the shooting of an Ijaw youth leader, Bekikeme Oyinkuro, during a stop-and-search operation along Igbogene-Okolobiri Road in Yenagoa Local Government Area of the state.

Enugu—JUSTICE D. V. Agishi of Federal High Court, Enugu, has ordered the management of Enugu State Waste Management Authority, ESWAMA, to pay N500,000 to one Miss Nma Ukonu, as damages, following the torture she suffered in the hands of the officials.

The Nigeria Football Federation has commended the U-17 National Team, Golden Eaglets, for earning a place at the FIFA U-17 World Cup finals taking place in Chile later in the year.

Lagos—The Police, yesterday, charged a 45 year old driver Kolawole Adeyemo to a Tinubu Magistrate’s Court, sitting on Lagos Island over alleged manslaughter.

The Chief of Army Staff, COAS, Lt. General Kenneth Minimah, yesterday, assured that all the Nigerian territories captured by the Boko Haram insurgents would be recaptured to enable the people of the area vote during the forthcoming general elections.