LAGOS — The military, yesterday, broke its silence on the controversy surrounding the shift in election date, saying its position had no political undertone.

A senatorial candidate contesting under the All Progressives Congress, APC, in Jigawa State, Alhaji Ubale Shitu, has explained why he refused to sign peace accord alongside Peoples Democratic Party, PDP candidate at the state police command, yesterday.

Professor Grace Alele-Williams, former Vice Chancellor of University of Benin, UNIBEN, has accused journalists of treating Nigerian politicians as demi-gods, rather than subject them to critical evaluation.

Operators in the oil and gas sector have blamed the ongoing fuel scarcity witnessed across the country on the Central Bank of Nigeria, CBN’s directives to financial institutions.

COLONEL Dickson A. Itodo (retd.) is the Director of Liberty Square Academy and Presiding Bishop of Liberty Square Ministries with headquarters in Abuja. He served the Nigerian Army for 26 years before he retired in 2001. In this chat with Vanguard Learning in Abuja recently, the former Chief Pharmacist of the Nigerian Army speaks on why he got into the education sector, the challenges, and says those who are in the sector just to make profit will be disappointed

In the light of the forthcoming general elections in Nigeria and the likelihood of the military being deployed to provide security during and perhaps after the elections, and given the opposition against this likely event, it is imperative that well meaning Nigerians weigh in with objective and legally sound opinions to help clear the maze and confusion caused by the proposition for, and opposition to, involving the military in the elections

Environ-mental Rights Action/ Friends of the Earth Nigeria, ERA/FoEN, has slammed Shell Petroleum Development Company, SPDC, for its poor response to the oil leak within its oil fields in Bayelsa State.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday said Israel creates the “greatest danger” in the region, after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned against a nuclear deal with the Islamic republic.

FIFTEEN political parties and five presidential candidates participating in the forth coming elections, yesterday, opposed the proposed use of card readers in accrediting voters by the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, in the elections.

In its quest to boost the quality of education available to our teeming Nigerian youths, Black Heritage Show Foundation, a non governmental organization has donated French books to five schools in Lagos which teach French Language.

The Nigeria Customs Service Federal Operations Unit, FOU Zone ‘A’ Ikeja, has commiserated with the families of those who lost their lives last Thursday, after a commercial Hiace bus with number plate EDO AKA 35 LG, carrying 19 bales of second-hand clothings, in which they were travelling was knocked-off the Lagos-Benin highway during a hot chase by an operational vehicle driven by its operatives.

Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State has urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to ensure that it delivers credible elections to Nigerians.

A BATTLEGROUND is a place where an election will be keenly contested between two or more major political parties or their candidates. Of Nigeria’s three traditional “tripod zones” where the nation’s demographic ethnic majorities live – Arewa Muslim North, the food basket of Nigeria; Igbo heartland South East, the engine room of the Nigerian society; and Yoruba homeland South West, the landlords of the Nigerian economy – the hunt for votes between President Goodluck Jonathan of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and General Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressive Congress (APC), will be fiercest in the South West come 28th March, 2015.

ABUJA — STIFF opposition from All Progressives Congress, APC, Senators and few members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, yesterday stalled screening of the former Minister of State for Defence, Senator Musiliu Obanikoro, for ministerial appointment.

ABUJA — Ahead of the forthcoming 2015 general elections, the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, says it has distributed well over 80 per cent of the Permanent Voter Cards (PVCs) to registered voters across the country.