ABUJA —Former National Security Adviser, NSA, under President Goodluck Jonathan, Col. Sambo Dasuki (retd), yesterday, dragged the Federal Government before the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja, insisting that his life is in danger.

They went, saw and conquered all their foes at the World Cup in Chile and now they are set for a triumphant return home after rewriting the history books at the FIFA U-17 World Cup, which ended in the wee hours of yesterday at Vina Del Mar.

Perched in a relatively quiet Northeast flank of the country, Taraba State has in the last four years earned a disproportionate slice of political intrigues since the air crash that incapacitated its immediate past governor, Danbaba Suntai. The tribunal judgment sacking his successor, Darius Ishaku brings a different dimension to the intrigues.

GOVERNORSHIP candidates of the twenty political parties vying for Creek Haven, the Bayelsa Government House in the December 5 guber election will today (Tuesday) meet in Yenagoa to sign a peace accord ahead of the poll. Vanguard gathered that the peace meeting, convened at the instance of Independent National Electoral Commission INEC in collaboration with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is to extract the commitment of the parties and their candidates to a peaceful poll devoid of rancour and bloodletting.

ABUJA—President Muhammadu Buhari, yesterday, called for punitive measures against perpetrators of electoral malpractices, saying it was not enough to cancel polls and order fresh ones.