FIRST LADY Mrs Patience Jonathan, yesterday, lambasted the All Progressives Congress, APC, saying the party was only good in propaganda and urged Nigerians to come out massively to reject the opposition party in the forthcoming elections.

President Goodluck Jonathan declared yesterday that the Federal Government will resist any attempt by the Boko Haram terrorists to take over control of any town or village within the country.

LAGOS State remains the commercial capital and economic nerve center of Nigeria.

POLITICIANS have foresight. They see things that non-politicians do not see. For them the future is always bright, glistering with optimism of victories at elections. Politicians see power, its uses, for themselves, and frighteningly, the challenges of being outside the spheres of power. They dread it; they can do anything to be in power.

On March 28 voters will be voting for three offices, namely, presidential, Senate and House of Representatives.

Flag-bearer of All Progressives Party, APC, General Mohammadu Buhari, retd, has promised to involve as many women as possible in his administration, if voted into power. He made this pledge as the Director General for the Buhari /Osibanjo Campaign organization and Governor of Rivers State, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi yesterday hosted Nigerian women to a town […]

Ohanaeze Youth Council, OYC, has called on Nigerians, especially people of Igbo extraction, to re-elect President Goodluck Jonathan in next week’s presidential election. The group, in a statement by the President, Mazi Francis Oji, and Secretary, Board of Trustees, Mazi Okwu Okwu, said doing otherwise would amount to political suicide that the Igbo might regret for years to come.

Three days into the strike called by the Medical Guild, umbrella body for doctors in Lagos state, patients in the wards have continued to bear the brunt of the action. While patients seeking emergency medical attention and those presenting for the first time got some respite in most of the state – owned hospitals in Lagos, patients already on admission prior to the commencement of the strike were left at the mercy of the nurses.

The Peoples Democratic Party, PDP had in the past been the bulldog in past elections in Rivers State having been in control of the state administration. Now for the first time, the party is fighting from the disadvantaged position of the opposition, and it is a fight of brawn.

Federal Government and a Bangladesh-based infrastructure giant, Infrastructure Investment Facilitation Company, IIFC, have signed a contract for the provision of advisory services to the financial inclusion project of Nigerian Postal Services, NIPOST, in Abuja. The tripartite project is aimed at reducing the number of financially-excluded Nigerians in the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s financial inclusion plan under the ongoing revival and transformation of the NIPOST by the Ministry of Communications Technology.

All Progressives Grand Alliance governorship candidate in Abia State, Dr. Alex Otti, has decried the sack by the state government of five traditional rulers perceived to be sympathetic to his party.

OWERRI — The suit filed at the Federal High Court, Owerri, by Governor Rochas Okorocha and his All Progressives Congress, APC, seeking the order of court to stop the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Chief Emeka Ihedioha and Senator Ifeanyi Araraume from campaigning, has suffered a setback.

HOPEFUL of victory, the Lagos PDP Women Vanguard has urged the governorship candidate of the party in the state, Mr Jimi Agbaje not to forget women when he assumes office, saying that a number of agenda should be implemented to take care of womenfolk. Making this call in a speech is Mrs Abiola Folami Ada, President of Lagos PDP Women Vanguard at a general assembly of the group convened in Surulere recently.

Uyo—The candidate of All Progressives Congress, APC, for Ukanafun state constituency in Akwa Ibom State, Obong Okon Uwah, was, Wednesday night, assassinated. Uwah, who was the Deputy Speaker of the state House of Assembly between 2007 and 2011, was allegedly murdered by political thugs, when he went on a campaign consultation in Ntek, Ukanafun Local Government Area.

Yenagoa—The peace of Yenaka, the home town of Minister for Petroleum Resources, Mrs. Diezani Alison-Madueke in Yenagoa Local Government Area of Bayelsa State was, yesterday, violated by unknown gunmen who kidnapped her nephew, Mr. Joseph Agama. Vanguard learned that the gunmen stormed the sleepy settlement at about 12:30a.m. and went straight to their victim’s home.