The governorship candidate of All Progressives Congress in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, has insisted that the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, must use card readers to accredit voters before voting in the upcoming elections.

ABUJA—Peoples Democratic Party, PDP yesterday said it was not against the use of electronic card reader by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, saying it was only against using them without a trial run.

Electoral offences are arguably the most widespread infractions of the law in this season. However, few are ever punished in Nigeria. The most notable are offences leading to the election including violations of campaign expenses and the use of government facilities for campaign.

Several stars shone in the 2013/2014 Nigeria Professional Football League (NPFL) season to make a name for themselves. Some of the players who hit headlines last season like Emem Eduok, Peter Ebimobowei and Osaguona Ighodalo have since sought greener pastures. Osaguona Ighodalo is another player who the league has lost after a superb season with Enugu Rangers.

CHIEF Frank Igwebuike is the Delta State Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Movement, PDM and the State Chairman of Inter-Party Advisory. Igwebuike who was a member of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, is a founding chieftain of the PDM. In 2010, he was the Special Assistant to the PDP National Chairman on National Assembly Matters. He was also a youth leader in the defunct Unity Party of Nigeria, UPN in the Second Republic

Women in Plateau state hardly take the opportunity of challenging men in the political sphere but Mrs. Eunice Sambo, the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate for the Plateau North Senatorial zone has taken the bull by the horns as she is challenging the incumbent governor, Jonah Jang who is aspiring for the same seat on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party.

Recently, the Bank of Industry took bold steps and solved an aged-long problem of the Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) sectors of the economy.

LAGOS— Director, Media and Publicity, Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Group, Chief Willy Akinlude, said that Senator Musiliu Obanikoro’s second coming as minister was an “act of God and well merited” noting that “nobody can block what God has put together for a particular objective.”

The Muslim Rights Concern (MURIC) has commended the Nigeria Military for the feat recorded in the fight against terrorism in the North East.

Osun State government has expelled five public secondary schools’ students fingered as perpetrators of the violent crises that ravaged two secondary schools in Osogbo for several days.