ONE can say that the general feeling among Nigerians, even without the benefit of a survey or an opinion poll, is that the February elections will be violent. Those who say this or think this way are not without their reasons. History tells us so. Our recent political experience confirms it. Even now, the fault lines are already manifesting. There have been violent skirmishes among supporters of the leading political parties in different parts of the country. Campaign posters have been torn. Party offices have been invaded, houses have been burnt and lives have been lost.

Rivers State Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, governorship candidate, Mr Nyesom Wike, has berated the state gogernor, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, for allegedly canceling the trans-Kalabari link road.

FORMER External Affairs Minister under the regime of late Gen. Sani Abacha, has emphasized the unity between him and Chief Tony Anenih in the political struggle to liberate Esanland and the entire Edo State from the clutches of All Progressives Congress, APC.

The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has sprung to action in the new year, strongly indicating its desire to upscale its capacity building efforts through training and research of government agencies and departments.

Chief Executive Officer of BAC Insurance Consultants Limited, Mrs Victoria Bolajoko Adegbaju is working assiduously to expunge unfavourable impressions held by a large section of the Nigerian public about insurance. She is the author of ‘Know Your Insurance Rights’, a reader-friendly book that provides answers to myriad of questions bothering on insurance. In this interview, she speaks on issues hindering the industry and calls on regulators to rise up to the task of improving it in entirety.

The term ‘data centre’ is not a popular one in the technology vocabulary of the average Nigerian. But for every bank account being maintained, every surveillance video captured, and every piece of data that large organisations need to store securely, the use of data centres is not only ubiquitous but an indispensable part of any IT industry.

A team of soldiers, popularly called OP MESSA, attached to 35 Artillery Brigade, Alamala in Ogun State, yesterday, intercepted a truck-load of about 3,600 ballot boxes at Odogbolu axis of the Sagamu-Ijebu Ode Expressway.

ABUJA — The Monetary Policy Committee rose from its first meeting in the year, in Abuja, yesterday, with a decision to retain the Monetary Policy Rate, MPR, at the current 13 per cent, the Cash Reserve Ratio, CRR, on Private and Public deposits at 20 per cent and 75 per cent respectively.

Governor Isa Yuguda of Bauchi State Sunday received 500 Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs, from Plateau, Kaduna, Adamawa and Yobe States, promising to employ educated ones among them.

The Oba of Lagos, Rilwanu Akiolu, yesterday urged the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, not to alter the wish of Nigerians at the February elections.