Yemi Okulaja is a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN). He graduated from the University of Ife and he was called to the Nigerian Bar in 1974. He was conferred with the prestigious rank of SAN in 1998 and he has been in practice for about 38 years now. In this interview, he spoke on the postponement of the general election, Rivers state judiciary, election petitions, criminal matters brought against political office holders and other sundry issues.

The presence of former assistant coach of the Super Eagles, Sylvanus Okpala at the NFF yesterday caused tongues to wag on his come-back to the national team but the NFF made it clear that Okpala came to iron out the implementation of the ruling of the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS).

All Progressives Congress, APC, governorship candidate in Delta State, Olorogun O’tega Emerhor, is to articul

Edo State Social Democratic Party, SDP, has spoken on the controversy trailing the party’s candidature for Owan federal constituency, insisting that Mr Stephen Ekeide remains the party’s candidate for the seat in the forthcoming elections.

AS Nigeria is set for the general elections starting with the presidential on March 28, a United States Congressman, Mr Stephen Lynch has advised the people to come out in their numbers to vote for the candidates of their choice.

Certainly, if endorsement is all that is needed to win an election, then one can conveniently conclude that the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has won the March 28 presidential polls.

THE mantra of continuity being propagated by the Governorship Candidate of the All Progressives Congress, APC, Mr. Akinwumi Ambode, in Lagos State was recently spread further across some local councils in the state in a manner that left party supporters more confident about electoral victory.

In other words, the Petitioners have failed to lead relevant, credible and or cogent evidence to sustain all the grounds upon which they questioned the declaration and return of the 1st Respondent as the duly elected Governor of Osun State with respect to the Governorship Election conducted in the State.

THE Austria Embassy’s Commercial Counselor to Nigeria, Nella Hengstler, has indicated that Austria houses a good number of Nigerian nationals and that both countries are remarkably interesting and maintain a most cordial bi-national relationship.

THE special squad of the Joint Task Force, JTF, code named Operation Pulo Shield, has arrested 28 suspected oil thieves and destroyed illegally refined products, vehicles and equipment in the Niger Delta.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, and All Progressive Grand Alliance, APGA, in Abia State have accused each other of triggering the shooting incident at Ikwuano last Monday.

PORT HARCOURT— Assistant Inspector General of Police, AIG, Zone 6, Calabar, Cross River State, Mr Tunde Ogunsakin, has enjoined politicians to educate their supporters on the need to pursue the path of peace before and after the general elections.

ASABA—THE leadership of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Delta State has advised party faithful to remain committed to the party and shun activities capable of bringing shame to the party.

One person was, yesterday, feared dead and three others injured when Fine Coat Limited, a paint manufacturing company located in Alagbado area of Lagos, went up in flames.

The Etisalat Prize For Literature which was initiated in 2013, is about to canonise yet another laureate as the 2nd winner of the Pan African Prize which honours début fiction writers across Africa.