National Leader of the All Progressives Congress, (APC) and former Lagos State Governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, yesterday in Lagos lambasted the President Goodluck Jonathan administration describing it as a failure.

PRESIDENT Goodluck Jonathan, former Head of State, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari (ret) and 12 other presidential candidates, yesterday, signed an undertaking to ensure free and fair polls as well as run issue-based campaigns for the forthcoming general elections in the country.

President Jonathan is running on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) while Buhari is contesting on the banner of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

Jonathan’s directive followed series of security reports indicating the existence of fifth columnists in the armed forces especially with regards to the war against terrorists in the North-East.

SOMEBODY should call the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to order for failing to ask Alhaji Muhammadu Buhari to take a bow at the recent screening of candidates for the 2015 presidential election.

PORT HARCOURT—RIVERS State Government has confirmed the outbreak of cholera in Andoni Local Government Area of the state, saying that about 20 persons have so far died from the disease.

While the APC on its part is saying that the PDP and its supporters have been responsible for removal of posters belonging to candidates vying on its platform, the PDP says otherwise.

ABUJA — THE 2015 Appropriation Bill of N4.357 trillion, yesterday, at the Senate, passed through the second reading, and was later referred to the Appropriation and Finance Committees for further legislative actions to be returned within four weeks.

Former Super Eagles captain and first choice goalkeeper Peter Rufai has identified Nigeria’s failure to beat South Africa in a 2015 Africa Cup of Nations qualifier in Uyo as biggest set back in Vincent Enyeama’s abortive bid to win the 2014 Glo-CAF African Footballer of the Year Award.

THE Electorate in Enugu State has over time demonstrated its unflinching resolve to identify with PDP. That accounts for the bandwagon effect among politicians as the party is seen as the most viable vehicle for…

Akure—FRESH facts emerged, yesterday, that eight policemen were shot dead by the dare-devil armed robbers, who robbed three banks simultaneously in Ikare area of Ondo State, Tuesday.

ADO EKITI—Ekiti State Governor, Mr Ayo Fayose, has warned Nigerians to beware of the banana peel being thrown on their path by former President Olusegun Obasanjo as the nation prepares for next month’s presidential election.

Crisis rocking the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, ahead of National Delegates Conference, NDC, taking place between February 9 and 11 in Abuja, has deepened as more facts emerged over the purported betrayal of private sector unions by public sector unions.

Lagos—The governorship aspirant of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in Lagos State, Jimi Agbaje, has vowed to cancel the controversial Lekki-Epe toll gate, if elected into office come February 14.

Governor Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom State has called on Nigerian security agencies to look out for people or politicians planning to truncate the country’s democracy by threatening to form a parallel government if they lose the forthcoming general elections.

Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate in Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa, has said that he his relationship with incumbent governor, Dr. Emmanuel Uduaghan, was cordial.