CALABAR—HOODLUMS, numbering seven, Sunday night, abducted Chief Dominic Aqua Edem, Labour Party, LP, House of Representatives candidate for Calabar South/Akpabuyo/Bakassi Federal Constituency and took him to an unknown destination. The hoodlums, according to one of his aides, laid wait for him outside his home at Ikotenim in the Western part of Calabar.

Former Nigeria international Willy Bazuaye has died, few days after being rushed into intensive care unit of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.

THE Securities and Exchange Commission, SEC approved the suspension of Rule 42 (5)(e) of the Consolidated Rules and Regulations of the Commission for 90 days, effective February 25, 2015. The suspended rule provides: “Membership of an Audit Committee shall be for a term of three (3) years, subject to good performance; Provided, that such Member shall not be eligible for re-election until the expiration of three (3) years after his previous term”. In this interview with Alhaji Gbadebo Olatokunbo, shareholder activist, he said the regulators should listen more to the shareholders.

The people, however, expressed satisfaction with Governor Rotimi Amaechi and promised to vote Dakuku to continue from where Amaechi would stop. Peterside, who had visited about 312 wards in the state in the last few weeks, canvassing for votes and wooing the people to vote for him with his Greater Together Campaign Organization, asked the people pointed questions in his bid to hear from the horse’s mouth. On some of the challenges, he made promises of what he would do if elected governor and gave instant solution to others.

Move on Nigeria, a Civic Action group promoting good governance and democracy, has dismissed the claim by the immediate past governor of Ekiti State Dr. Kayode Fayemi, that he had evidence of President Goodluck Jonathan’s plan to install an interim government and that Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was invited to be part of the ING arrangement.

ONE month ago, the APC had whipped its supporters into frenzy in believing it is bound to win an election it really has no chance of winning. In truth, if the election had been conducted then for chairman of the EFCC, Muhammadu Buhari would have been declared winner by a landslide. However, with postponement of the election, a lot of water has passed under the bridge. Even Buhari’s self-styled credential as Mr. Integrity has unraveled.

Lagos-based real estate and investment company, Messrs Propertygate Development and Investment Plc, has commenced the construction of three housing projects simultaneously in three clusters within a private gated estate along the Lekki Peninsula corridor in Lagos. The projects are part of the company’s efforts to bridge the increasing housing shortfall in the country as well as expand housing market for enhanced contribution to Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product.

The housing sector in Lagos State was boosted last week with the injection of 324 units into the market. This followed the formal commissioning of r for affordable housing as the solution for acute housing shortfall in Lagos may have started yielding positive results with the commissioning of Cooperative Home Ownership Incentive Scheme, CHOIS Garden Estate in Abijo in the Ibeju-Lekki Local Council Development Area, LCDA.

UGHELLI—Delta State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has alleged that there was a plot by one of the political parties in the state to recruit staff into the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, for the March 28 and April 11 general elections.

Yenagoa—Eligible voters in Bayelsa State, yesterday, besieged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, designated centres to collect their permanent voters cards as the state government embarked on “Operation show your PVCs.”

The Association of Aluminium Roofers and Fabricators of Nigeria, AAROFAN, South-South chapter, has endorsed the candidatures of Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and Olorogun O’tega Emerhor of All Progressives Congress, APC, for the February, 28 presidential election and April 11 Delta State governorship election respectively.

WARRI—NIGER DELTA leaders and Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, will converge, Saturday, in Warri, Delta State, to discuss the political relevance of the region and fine tune strategies for the re-election of President Goodluck Jonathan. It was gathered that Delta State is already agog for the summit, as the belief of the leaders and groups is that Niger Delta would not be cowed to give up the presidency.

The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, ICC, Fatou Bensouda, has threatened to prosecute any Nigerian politician or any other person, who incites or engages in acts of violence in the coming general elections.

IN a space of one week, U.S. Republican law makers in Congress acted most disrespectfully to President Barack Obama in particular, and the White House in general. First, it was Speaker John Boehner’s undiplomatic snub when he unilaterally invited Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to address Congress, without the courtesy of informing the White House about the invitation.

The Senate Committee on Drugs, Narcotics, Financial Crimes and Anti-Corruption has apologised to the Pipeline Products and Marketing Company, PPMC, for misrepresentations over its involvement in crude oil swap arrangement and exonerated the company from any allegation of fraud.