Whoever wins this forthcoming elections, will contend with profound challenges, and there is no doubt about that. Two of the critical challenges have to do with Nigeria’s economic security and the security of its homeland: the first, essentially, will be the challenges in grappling with massive revenue loss that might necessitate new, biting, austerity measures that will be a throw-back to the middle and late 80s.

Veteran politician and second republic governor of the old Kaduna State, Alhaji Balarabe Musa, sees ominous signs ahead of the February polls and warns they should not hold. In place of the elections, he is canvassing a unity government.

FORMER CPC vice presidential candidate and founder of Latter Rain Assembly, Pastor Tunde Bakare has declared that he earnestly yearns for a better Nigeria where good governace, equal distribution of the nation’s resources amongst others for all citizens.

Political events of the last one month in Nigeria seem to place doubt on the workability of the recent accord signed by our political leadership. First, the accord was not comprehensive as it tended to rely on the existing erroneous impression that the only cause of election violence in our clime is the desperation of politicians. While not playing down on that because it is certainly a prime factor, it is obviously incorrect to think that it is the only factor.

THE Benin monarch, Oba Erediauwa, yesterday, warned that the call for the postponement of the forthcoming general elections is a call to chaos and anarchy. He predicted that the elections will be peaceful, but warned supporters of both President Goodluck Jonathan and Gen.Muhammadu Buhari to stop utterances capable of creating tension in the country.

As the time slated for the upcoming elections draws inexorably closer, politicians and their supporters are doing all they can to ensure victory at the polls. Expectedly, the major focus is on the presidential elections, because whoever is elected President automatically becomes the highest political office holder in the country. That is not to say that other political offices, such as those of the governor and membership of the legislature, are unimportant.

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AKURE, the Ondo State, literally stood still on Wednesday, as supporters of President Goodluck Jonathan’s second term aspiration stormed the Democracy Park to witness the turn of the state’s presidential campaign of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

AHEAD of the 2015 general elections scheduled for next month, eminent Pentecostal ministers from within and otherside the country are expected to gather in Lagos from February 4, to offer fervert prayers for peaceful election and cessation of insurgency in every part of the country.

As we hurl towards the 14th of February election, it is becoming fever pitch and almost irrepressible. You could not miss the campaign posters all around the place as several political parties jostle for positions in already saturated surfaces. There have been problems with posters and defacing of opponents’ posters and accusations flying right, left and centre. The posters are on the high streets, highways, public buildings, private buildings and overheads. There are posters pasted everywhere that even one goat seems to be enjoying eating a Buhari poster.

A presidential debate leading up to the February 14 election, being organised by the Newspaper Proprietors Association of Nigeria (NPAN), will hold on Tuesday. The debate is scheduled to take place at the Congress Hall of the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has welcomed the statement by the Presidency/PDP that they are not behind the ongoing campaign for next month’s general elections to be shifted, saying both must now back up their words with action by cutting off the funding for the surreptitious campaign immediately.

In what was an obvious boost to the image of Mr Akinwumi Ambode, the governorship candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos State, his fellow old students at the Federal Government College, Warri, Delta State paid glowing tributes to him and projected him as someone clearly qualified to steer the affairs of Lagos.

It is better to flaunt your sex appeal than to have nothing to show off. This seems to be Flavour’s principle. The contemporary highlife artiste who has a knack for showing off his sexy physique on social media revealed in an interview why he loves to show off his physique.

They are ubiquitous. Yes, give it to them. And in an apparent show of strength and superiority, they filed out en-masse, last Thursday, to announce to Nigerians and the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, that change was imminent.