Enugu-based Catholic priest, Rev. Fr. Ejike Mbaka, has alleged that President Goodluck Jonathan and his wife, Patience, were planning to kill him over his criticism of the Federal Government and his opposition to the President’s re-election.

LAGOS STATE governorship candidate of the National Conscience Party, NCP, Comrade Ayodele Akele, is not happy with the huge cost of governance in the state, which he said is hampering delivery of democracy dividends and abolition of poverty, the motto of his party.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of carrying his re-election desperation to a new height on Monday when he unleashed thugs on Lagos residents during a sponsored OPC protest against INEC Chairman Attahiru Jega.

Diaspora chapter of Abuja-based international advocacy group, the Transformation Ambassadors of Nigeria, TAN, has mobilised international support for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan.

IMO State Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha, has likened the All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) to late Dr. Nelson Mandela of South Africa and urged Nigerians to give him the mandate to steer and stabilise the ship of state. Addressing Imo State indigenes who gathered on the banner of Imo State Towns Development Association Lagos (ISTDAL) at a colourful reception for him at Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos, Okorocha said at 72, the only thing uppermost in Buhari’s mind was to clear the rot in the polity and move on.

GOVERNOR Willie Obiano of Anambra State is one year in office today. The one year has been very remarkable as many landmark projects have either been executed or flagged off.

The convoy of the wife of the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Hajia Aisha Buhari was yesterday attacked by suspected hoodlums in Ilorin, Kwara State.

IN an apparent warning to the military to stay away from the forth-coming general elections, Chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission, Professor Attahiru Jega, yesterday, hinted that the power of the military as enshrined in the 1999 Constitution (as amended), does not empower it to monitor elections.

By Chioma Onuegbu Group Capt. Samuel Ewang (retd) is a member of the Board of Trustees of the All Progressives Congress, APC and a former military governor of Ogun State. He is presently the Akwa Ibom State Coordinator, of the Buhari Campaign Organization. In this interview, he speaks on issues relating to the presidential election […]

All Progressives Congress, APC presidential candidate General Muhammadu Buhari yesterday put forward a covenant with Nigerians spelling his blueprint to confront corruption, insecurity and infrastructure decay.

The International Criminal Court, ICC, said it would investigate allegations of incitement against the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, The Cable, an online newspaper reported yesterday. The decision to investigate and possibly prosecute the First Lady followed a petition submitted to the ICC by All Progressives Congress Presidential Campaign Organization, APCPCO.

WARRI—CHAIRMAN of Ogidigben Interface Committee on the Export Processing Zone, EPZ, Delta State, Mr Austin Oboroegbeyi and other Itsekiri leaders, have lampooned President Goodluck Jonathan for failing again to perform the groundbreaking of the EPZ project slated for yesterday. Oboroegbeyi said: “Mr President’s failure, again, to keep his promise to perform the groundbreaking of the Ogidigben EPZ project rescheduled for today (yesterday) is, to say the least, disappointing and embarrassing.”

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has again accused the Police of bias in the state, saying that they are being used to unjustly arrest and harass members of his All Progressives Congress, APC.

Members of the Oodua Peoples Congress, OPC, created scene Monday morning at the 7-Up end of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, in Oregun/Alausa area, as they gathered in preparation for anti-Jega protest and pro-rally for the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan.

ABEOKUTA—Residents of Journalist Estate, Arepo, in Obafemi-Owode Local Government Area of Ogun State have cried out over the stray bullets that had shattered roofs and car windscreens in the estate. The residents, under the aegis of Journalist Estate Residents Development Association Phase 2, Arepo, had on Monday petitioned the Department of State Services, DSS, Abeokuta, over the development.