PATRIOTISM is defined by the Webster Dictionary as “a zealous love of one’s country”, while the Oxford Dictionary defined it as “devotion to one’s country and concern for its defence”.

PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO alleged yesterday that the Presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, General Muhammadu Buhari, retd has entered into a deal with the Western world to as a matter of urgency legalise same sex marriage if elected President of the country during the March 28 Presidential election.

Senate Committee Chairman on the Environment, Senator Bukola Saraki, last night denied producing or contemplating producing any television documentary aimed at portraying President Goodluck Jonathan in bad light.

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, yesterday, faulted the establishment of the Almajiri special schools by the Federal Government which it started in year 2013, especially in the Northern region, saying the strategy adopted by the central government has no feasible end gains.

THE Electoral Officer, EO of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC for Ethiope East Local Government Area of Delta State, Mr. Livy Unigwe, has appealed to the traditional ruler of Agbon Kingdom, HRM Ogurime-Rime, Ukori I, to plead with the National Youth Service Corps, NYSC to deploy corps members to Kokori to help in assisting the commission in the conduct of the forthcoming general election.

Deacon Chike Okafor is the immediate past Commissioner for Finance in Imo state and presently, the All Progressives Congress, APC candidate for the Okigwe South Federal Constituency. In this interview, Okafor discusses his ambition, his politics and ideology in public service

ASABA—The police in Issele-Uku, Aniocha North Local Government Area, Delta State, yesterday, apprehended a bus loaded with ballot boxes.

ABUJA—The Abuja Division of the Court of Appeal has stopped the execution of the death sentence that was passed on two of the twelve Nigerian soldiers who were convicted last year by a Military Court Martial over their alleged complicity in acts of mutiny.

PEOPLES Democratic Party, PDP Presidential Campaign Organisation, PDPPCO Thursday took a swipe at the National leader of the All Progressives Congress, APC and former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, described as baseless and false his claims that the PDP and the Presidency offered him the position of vice president in an Interim National Government (ING) if he would dump his party’s Presidential candidate, General Muhhamdu Buhari, retd

ABEOKUTA—The Awujale and Paramount ruler of Ijebuland, Oba Sikiru Adetona, yesterday, rejected an overture to endorse President Goodluck Jonathan for second term.

All Progressives Congress, APC, presidential candidate, General Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, affirmed that he would not allow the smear campaign to dissuade him from his obligation of liberating the country from the bondage of misrule and misery of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.

Abuja—Following a diplomatic row between Nigeria and Morocco over whether there was any telephone conversation by the leaders of the two countries, the Federal Government insisted yesterday that President Goodluck Jonathan spoke on the telephone with his Moroccan counterpart, King Mohammed V1. Nigerian government stated that the discussion however centred on the forthcoming election of the African Development Bank, AfDB, for which the country is lobbying for one of its ministers as president of the bank.

THE presidential candidates of the Peoples Democratic Party,PDP, President Goodluck Jonathan and his All Progressives Congress, APC, candidate counterpart, Maj Gen Mohammadu Buhari, retd, would participate in a town hall meeting aimed at addressing some critical electioneering issues.

WHAT do we want to do with our prisons? Better still, what do we intend to do with our prisoners? Prisons are not a favourite subject of many. Prisoners are outcasts, considered worse than the scum of society. Politicians exclude them from their trite campaign messages.

In a move to checkmate activities of piracy and crude oil theft in the Gulf of Guinea, the Nigerian Navy,NN in collaboration with 21 other countries, among them , the United States of America and United kingdom, are to engage in a maritime security exercise tagged ‘Operation Obangame Express’ .The exercise is billed to commence on March 19 to March 27, 2015.